[HarleyD]

I do have a reputation to maintain and I hate to be accuse of saying the most egregious thing on FR. While the Orthodox accept the Nicene Creed in what they consider the "early form", they reject what they consider the "later text".

It was only a few years after this very Council of 431 AD, that some in the western Church began to insert an extra word into the Creed. In the Latin version of the Creed, the word - ‘filioque’ (‘and from the Son’) was added in the statement concerning the nature of the Holy Spirit. This small word had large consequences; it became the cause of much theological disagreement and was a major factor in the eventual separation of the Roman Church from the Orthodox in 1054 AD.

To say the Holy Spirit proceeds ‘from the Father and the Son’, is to attempt to change the very nature of God as he has revealed himself - the Orthodox belief that God is ‘three persons’ and yet ‘one God’. The addition of the ‘filioque’ is to confuse and turn upside down this revelation. This is not just an argument about words, of semantics; it comes to the very heart of who God is. It is this fundamental Christian truth that the Creed was promulgated to protect!

To this day, the Orthodox Church stands firm on the use of the Creed in its original form as declared at the first three Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Church. It is interesting that some Protestant Churches have, in more recent times, expressed the Creed in its original form (without the filioque) as an alternative or ‘preferred’ form. The debate still rages between the Roman and Orthodox Churches concerning the ‘filioque’. It was this inclusion into the Creed that had so much bearing upon the eventual separation of the Roman Church 1054 AD, and, sadly, it is its continual use that proves to be such a major obstacle in any talks of reunion.”

Greek Orthodox on the Nicene Creed

[Kolokotronis]

"While the Orthodox accept the Nicene Creed in what they consider the "early form", they reject what they consider the "later text"."

Not what we "consider" the "early form", it is actually the original Nicene Creed as adopted by the Councils. That's just a fact, Harley. What the Latin Church and virtually all Protestants say, because you got it from the Latin Church, is a later version designed to address Arianism. For centuries it was condemned but eventually the Franks forced its acceptance on the Western Church. The Pope today, of course, uses the original form when praying with Orthodox hierarchs and people. As I understand it, the original Greek form is also used by the Latin Church for catechesis.