should believe less. We should study the creed to remind ourselves of the core beliefs upon which all Christians agree—the minimum belief required to call oneself Christian. The creeds both provide the inner core of doctrine and define the outer limits of beliefs. They delineate what is doctrinally out-of-bounds. If a person says, “I think Jesus never really came back from the dead—he just was in a coma,” the Apostles’ Creed sets off an alarm bell among Christians. We disagree