Jesus is confessed as God the Son and as the Second Person of the Trinity, need not be viewed as distortions or evolutionary transmutations of a Jewish rabbi into a divine Lord. They can rather be seen as a natural development arising from the church’s reflection on and contemplation of the words and deeds of the historical Jesus.”9 Creeds were written as a means of accurately explaining what the Bible conveys. The Athanasian Creed took up the task of describing the Godhead in a way that complements
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