We Believe in One God (Biblia.com)

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“We believe in one God, the Father.” The opening clause of the Nicene Creed can be summed up in a single word—monotheism. In the early centuries of the church, this striking doctrine stood starkly against a cultural background of multiple deities and spiritual powers. While it clearly builds on its Jewish heritage, calling God “Father” anticipates the Father-Son relationship in the Godhead that...

The apostolic provenance of the New Testament books was guaranteed by the fact that they were recognized by the churches that had been founded by the apostles themselves. The Fathers’ argument was that the churches mentioned in the New Testament as apostolic foundations had preserved the apostles’ teaching intact, and they pointed to the remarkable agreement that existed among those churches with respect to the texts of the apostolic writings. They were well aware that there were a large number of

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