While there is no verifiable written word-for-word representation of the Apostles Creed prior to 340 A.D., we can be confident that the Apostles Creed is themost accurate representation of the Christian Faith in the form of a creed.
The Saints taught what they called “The Rule of Faith” which is essentially the Apostles Creed. The early church had no codified definedcreeds as we have today. The Christian teachings were handed down through the preaching of the Saints.
The early church taught what is basically in the Apostles creed, yet, they never hada writtenform of their teaching and called it “The Apostles Creed.”
I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, our Lord Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary; Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell;The third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the righthand of God the Father Almighty; From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit. I believe a holy catholic Church, the communion of saints; The forgiveness ofsins; The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting. AMEN
The Nicene Creed,also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, is a statement of the orthodox faith of the early Christian Church,
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin
Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father;
and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets.
And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. AMEN