Have you ever heard the idea that we shouldn’t have a creed, just the Bible?This may give an impression of mercy, but with John Stott he says: “Not respecting tradition and historical theology is disrespecting the Holy Spirit who has actively enlightened the church over the centuries.
The following image shows the importance of beliefs and confessions:
- One of the concerns of many evangelicals in a predominantly Catholic country when they talk about beliefs and denominations is that they take the place of the Bible and.
- In fact.
- That extreme exists.
- However.
- Hermisten Maia.
- In the book Creio.
- Warns us:.
“The Church documents we have received are not infallible (even in the consensual), and they never wanted that; however, it is the historical and theological treasures that have left us. Your authority is relative. However, the Church cannot survive without being aware of her past, of her struggles, of her difficulties, of her failures and, certainly, by grace, of her victories, that conscience must generate in us a spirit of gratitude, humility and defiance in the face of the magnitude of God’s revelation. .
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The Apostolic Creed is one of the oldest and most beautiful documents of Christianity, its succinct and easy-to-register formula has been used by the Christian Church for almost two thousand years and represents a true commitment of faith of the sincere Christian. important work, written clearly and deeply by Professor and Pastor Hermisten Maia, the Apostolic Creed is commented on in detail and presented in all its theological and devotional richness. The book the reader has in his hands is a small systematic theology and a reference book to teach in both churches and seminaries.
Heber Carlos de Campos, in the article The Relevance of Beliefs and Confessions, reminds us:
“At a time of such theological confusion that the Christian Church is going through” It is not advisable to profess Christianity without clearly saying what one believes. The Church of Christ has always been a Church that confesses, because the authenticity of our faith must be highlighted in what we believe and confess. We must be brave enough to express clearly and openly, and preferably in writing, the things we believe in. I recognize that we live in an age that rejects the notion of creed or confession, but this position There are so many heresies and attempts to attack the authentic faith that it is necessary to formulate and confess what we believe, so that the church, in its entirety, does not miss, rejected back and forth by any wind of doctrine. ?
There is a great relationship between heresies and lack of public confession of faith. John Piper points this out in Thoughts on the Adequacy of the Scriptures?What it means and what it doesn’t mean:
“One surprising fact, which I did not expect to find, was that heretics protested much more because of the non-biblical language of the Orthodox creed. They argued that prayers? An essence with the Father? And?A substance with the Father was not found Heretics demanded “not to believe, the Bible does,” precisely in order to use biblical language to escape biblical truth. For example, would you voluntarily call Christ, Son of God?and then argue that, like all children, He should have had a beginning, so to my surprise, a form of “Enough Scripture” was used to undermine the truth of the scriptures.
Carl Trueman, author of the book O Imperativo Confessional (Editora Monergismo), discusses the topic in the video below. See also this author’s lecture.