[mikeus_maximus]

What’s the purpose of a creed? If Scripture is the inspired word of God, then a creed either adds to it, takes away from it, or is redundant.

Creeds came about because councils and bureaucracies found them convenient to bind their particular organizations together. They are the fuel of religious division. http://www.bible.ca/r-creeds=fuel-division.htm

The creeds that have been adopted by various denominations simply violate Sola Scriptura and are nothing like the ancient declarations of faith they claim to follow: http://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition-5-types-4-creeds.htm

Both Luther and Calvin violated the principle. http://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-anti-refuted-luther-calvin-creeds.htm

[Petrosius]

What’s the purpose of a creed? If Scripture is the inspired word of God, then a creed either adds to it, takes away from it, or is redundant.

I wil take door #3: it clarifies Scripture.

[Gamecock]

What’s the purpose of a creed? If Scripture is the inspired word of God, then a creed either adds to it, takes away from it, or is redundant.

And just why would redundant be bad?

There are others, will let you figure it out.

[FatherofFive]

If Scripture is the inspired word of God

Where is Sola Scripture in Scripture? Please cite chapter and verse. If you can't, Sola Scriptura is not Scriptural, and just a man-made religion started 1,500 years after Christ established his Church..

Where in Scripture did Jesus say to write anything down?

[Elsie]

Creeds came about because councils and bureaucracies found them convenient to bind their particular organizations together. They are the fuel of religious division.

Didn't ROME start them?

One of the most widely used creeds in Christianity is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea.

[Elsie]

What’s the purpose of a creed? If Scripture is the inspired word of God, then a creed either adds to it, takes away from it, or is redundant.

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Here is MORMONism's own creed:

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Articles of Faith

The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.

 

THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535—541

 

 

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
   
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
   
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
   
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
   
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
   
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
   
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
   
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
   
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
   
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
    
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
    
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
    
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Joseph Smith