10/22/2021 After the fall people grew farther and farther from God until the sad day came when we needed to call on the name of the Lord. Generation by generation people got farther from God until we were so evil God cleansed the world by flood. We are so far from God we need the Bible to help us even know who God is. The early Church wrote short statements about God and His working among people which became Creeds as a statement of faith in God.

Here is one of the first Creeds which is believed to have been written within a decade of the Resurrection of Jesus:

1 Corinthians 15:3-8: 

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: 

that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 

that he was buried, 

that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 

Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.”

Over the next days we will look at some of these early Creeds found in the Bible.

Creeds: Statements of who God is and who we should be. This is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.