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Do You Believe? Today we’re flooded with opinions and ideas. And they all might be interesting, but are they true? Would you die for them? Ben Myers re-introduces the Apostles’ Creed. He helps us to see how difficult and counter-cultural the Creed really is. It doesn’t give us sweet, empty words. It’s a faith that demands we die so that we might live. In the early church many converts died for...

Gregory again: “ ‘Father’ designates neither the substance nor the activity, but the relationship, the manner of being, which holds good between the Father and the Son.”10 The Father is the source, the origin, the wellspring of divine life. And the Son derives from that source. So there is a relationship of origin between Father and Son. According to early Christian teaching, that is all we are meant to think of when we say the word “Father.” We purify our language of all thoughts of gender—otherwise
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