All Things Visible and Invisible

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The creed asserts to the contrary that any evil powers that exist are not equal to God but are created beings, subordinate to God. I've decided to accept this answer because it most directly addresses the specific terms "visible" and "invisible". It was a tough choice though; the Catechism talks about it in greater detail without using those words.

In this all the branches of Trinitarian Christianity are agreed. Are there any invisible things we are aware of other that spiritual beings and heaven? Or is that the limit we have there? Well there are invisible things in the universe gravity, electromagnetism, etc.

There could be other invisible things, if so they too are created by God. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

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Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. A good antidote to the popular portrayal of angels may be found in reading C. Not surprisingly, our iconography clothes them in the robes of Byzantine soldiers. And soldiers are not to be messed with; soldiers are armed.

Nicene Creed

Indeed, admitting that one believes in the existence of demons is a quick way to expose oneself to mockery and to kill whatever credibility one managed to amass. Therefore, they concluded, they could not believe in a devil. It seems to have dawned on very few of them that Scripture did not insist on his horns, his tail, or his tights.

Belief in an objective spirit called Satan and in evil spirits constitutes then a great gulf fixed between Christians who accept the teaching of the Scriptures and the Fathers, and those who simply give it lip-service. But there is no getting around it: Christ clearly believed that Satan existed see Mk. Thus the Creed gives us a salutary reminder that the invisible world really exists, and that it often impinges upon our visible one.

We confess the dangerous and beautiful complexity of this multi-layered world every time we say the Creed. Lawrence was formerly an Anglican priest, graduating from Wycliffe College in Toronto, Canada in before serving Anglican parishes in central Canada. He converted to Orthodoxy in and spent two years at St. After ordination he traveled to Surrey, B. Herman of Alaska Church. The Church has grown from its original twelve members, and now owns a building in Langley, B.

A Journey through the Orthodox Divine Liturgy. SVS Press has published his book on Feminism and Tradition, examining such topics as the ordination of women and deaconesses. He has also written a synaxarion lives of Saints , published by Light and Life, entitled A Daily Calendar of Saints, recently updated and revised and available through his blog. Herman of Alaska, Akathist: The view that the Nicene Creed can serve as a touchstone of true Christian faith is reflected in the name "symbol of faith", which was given to it in Greek and Latin, when in those languages the word "symbol" meant a "token for identification by comparison with a counterpart ".

In the Roman Rite Mass , the Latin text of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, with "Deum de Deo" God from God and " Filioque " and from the Son , phrases absent in the original text, was previously the only form used for the "profession of faith".

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While in certain places where the Byzantine Rite is used, the choir or congregation sings the Creed at the Divine Liturgy , in many places the Creed is typically recited by the cantor, who in this capacity represents the whole congregation although many, and sometimes all, members of the congregation may join in rhythmic recitation. Where the latter is the practice, it is customary to invite, as a token of honor, any prominent lay member of the congregation who happens to be present, e.

This practice stems from the tradition that the prerogative to recite the Creed belonged to the Emperor , speaking for his populace.

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Some evangelical and other Christians consider the Nicene Creed helpful and to a certain extent authoritative, but not infallibly so in view of their belief that only Scripture is truly authoritative. There are several designations for the two forms of the Nicene creed, some with overlapping meanings:. In musical settings, particularly when sung in Latin , this Creed is usually referred to by its first word, Credo. This section is not meant to collect the texts of all liturgical versions of the Nicene Creed, and provides only three, the Greek, the Latin, and the Armenian, of special interest.

Others are mentioned separately, but without the texts. All ancient liturgical versions, even the Greek, differ at least to some small extent from the text adopted by the First Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople. The Creed was originally written in Greek , owing to the location of the two councils. The Latin text, as well as using the singular, has two additions: The Armenian text has many more additions, and is included as showing how that ancient church has chosen to recite the Creed with these numerous elaborations of its contents.

An English translation of the Armenian text is added; English translations of the Greek and Latin liturgical texts are given at English versions of the Nicene Creed in current use. On the latter see The Filioque Controversy above. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible.

God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten and not made; of the very same nature of the Father, by Whom all things came into being, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Who for us humanity and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate, was made human, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. He suffered, was crucified, was buried, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven with the same body, [and] sat at the right hand of the Father.

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He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father, to judge the living and the dead; of His kingdom there is no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, in the uncreated and the perfect; Who spoke through the Law, prophets, and Gospels; Who came down upon the Jordan, preached through the apostles, and lived in the saints.

We believe also in only One, Universal, Apostolic, and [Holy] Church; in one baptism in repentance, for the remission, and forgiveness of sins; and in the resurrection of the dead, in the everlasting judgement of souls and bodies, and the Kingdom of Heaven and in the everlasting life.

The version in the Church Slavonic language , used by several Eastern Orthodox Churches is practically identical with the Greek liturgical version. Although the Union of Brest excluded addition of the Filioque , this was sometimes added by Ruthenian Catholics , [61] whose older liturgical books also show the phrase in brackets, and by Ukrainian Catholics.

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Writing in , the Ruthenian Scholar Fr. Most of the Eastern Catholic Rites use it. The versions used by Oriental Orthodoxy and the Church of the East [66] differ from the Greek liturgical version in having "We believe", as in the original text, instead of "I believe". The version found in the Book of Common Prayer is still commonly used by some English speakers, but more modern translations are now more common.

The International Consultation on English Texts published an English translation of the Nicene Creed, first in and then in successive revisions in and These texts were adopted by several churches. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States, which adopted the version in , and the Catholic Church in other English-speaking countries, which in adopted the version published in that year, continued to use them until , when it replaced them with the version in the Roman Missal third edition.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Statement of belief adopted at the First Ecumenical Council in English versions of the Nicene Creed.

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Liturgical Use of Creeds". The meaning "something which stands for something else" first recorded in "Faerie Queene". Symbolic is attested from The Cambridge History of Christianity. The History of Creeds.

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