04-07-2013, 12:45 PM
Hi there,
it looks like the old (Nestorian) CoE had a different creed than today!
This is from the year 612:
We believe in one divine Being.
It is everlasting, is alive without beginning, everything stimulating.
Incredibly all powers creating. Manner, all wisdom giving.
Pure Spirit. Endlessly, unfathomably. Not compound and without parts.
Insubstantially. Invisibly and unalterable. Suffering-incapable and immortally.
Neither by them nor by other still with others suffering and change can enter;
since completely it is in its being and its being.
Neither increase nor decrease can receive them;
since it is the being for itself and God about everything.
No mention of the Trinity, very strictly monotheistic!
Today's creed:
One is Christ the Son of God,
Worshiped by all in two natures;
In His Godhead begotten of the Father,
Without beginning before all time;
In His humanity born of Mary,
In the fullness of time, in a body united;
Neither His Godhead is of the nature of the mother,
Nor His humanity of the nature of the Father;
The natures are preserved in their Qnumas,
In one person of one Sonship.
And as the Godhead is three substances in one nature,
Likewise the Sonship of the Son is in two natures, one person.
So the Holy Church has taught.
Kind regards
Michael
it looks like the old (Nestorian) CoE had a different creed than today!
This is from the year 612:
We believe in one divine Being.
It is everlasting, is alive without beginning, everything stimulating.
Incredibly all powers creating. Manner, all wisdom giving.
Pure Spirit. Endlessly, unfathomably. Not compound and without parts.
Insubstantially. Invisibly and unalterable. Suffering-incapable and immortally.
Neither by them nor by other still with others suffering and change can enter;
since completely it is in its being and its being.
Neither increase nor decrease can receive them;
since it is the being for itself and God about everything.
No mention of the Trinity, very strictly monotheistic!
Today's creed:
One is Christ the Son of God,
Worshiped by all in two natures;
In His Godhead begotten of the Father,
Without beginning before all time;
In His humanity born of Mary,
In the fullness of time, in a body united;
Neither His Godhead is of the nature of the mother,
Nor His humanity of the nature of the Father;
The natures are preserved in their Qnumas,
In one person of one Sonship.
And as the Godhead is three substances in one nature,
Likewise the Sonship of the Son is in two natures, one person.
So the Holy Church has taught.
Kind regards
Michael