Athanasian Creed

which is known to be used for Sunday school. Due to the Lutheran church stemming from the Catholic church, there are many similarities. Both churches follow and believe in three Ecumenical churches; the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. They both believe these creeds to be truthful and appropriate in describing…

Ethics & Morality There are many different views throughout the Lutheran denomination of Christianity all over the world, regarding controversial issues such as homosexuality and abortion. For example, the Evangelical Churches in Germany and Sweden support same-sex relationships, while in Africa and Asia, Lutherans have a more conservative view and condemn these relationships as sinful. Disagreements about ordaining homosexual pastors into the Lutheran Church have led to breaking ties between…

Let us now examine the Lutheran Churches of America and what this Protestant denomination of the Roman Catholic Church expresses as the plan, path, and doctrine of Salvation, or Soteriology? The third largest group of Christianity in the United States according to the US Census Bureau is the Lutheran faith. The Lutheran Church first established its presence in the United States of America in the Colony of New York (New Amsterdam) in the 1640s [28]. Since this date, the Lutheran church has grown…

persons and who He is, and in order to talk about this idea Christianity developed the idea of the Trinity as a God who is three persons, but indivisible within it. Therefore, you cannot separate any one aspect from another, which is why the Athanasian Creed is so important within the church because it focuses on this very…

his followers through covenants. Jesus is believed in with the Islamic faith and Christianity, in Islam an example of this is in the Quran, "(Jesus) was a prophet, sent by Allah and born of the Virgin Mary, but not divine (Quran 5:17)." The Nicene Creed states that, "The second person of the Trinity and born of the Virgin Mary. "...true God from true God". Islam and Christianity both have an understanding of hell, this is supported by both of their holy bibles. In the Quran, "A place of torment…

conclusion favored Athanasius and the first version of the Nicene Creed (see Appendix 1) was adopted ecumenically across the Eastern and Western Christian churches, become the new Christian profession of faith (Holcomb 2014, 38). This first version of the Nicene Creed contains critical verbiage regarding the relationship of the Father to the Son, stating they were of identical substance (homoousis). While the Holy Spirit is in the Nicene Creed, it is with little emphasis. This lack of attention…

The Nature of God regarding the Holy Trinity states there is one God (Deut. 6:4), but the one God exists in 3 persons as The Father (John 17:3), The Son (1 John 5:20), and The Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4) which we recognize in the Athanasian Creed (neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance, Father is God, Son is God, Holy Spirit is God, not three Gods, but one God). II. The Origins of the Universe The Origins of the Universe, teach us the incredible power of God’s voice originating…

Moksha, as a concept in the religion of Hinduism, is the ultimate goal in life. Moksha is also known as liberation or salvation. Moksha is the ultimatet goal because Samsara or rebirth happens before the liberation. In order to attain Moksha, there is the cycle of rebirth as also known as Samsara. The maintenance of world order can be achieved through Dharma while Moksha is the release from the world. Karma, as the cause-and-effect to the Samsara, is doing good or well in your duty or social…

World War 1 shattered the innocence of many people. The constant shelling, trench warfare, and death left many people broken and with shell shock. Robert Graves was no exception. In his book Good-Bye to All That, the war makes him lose his respect for the cowardly English authority. His religion goes with him to the trenches but was one of the fatalities. Finally, his secrecy and embarrassment of private matters become his ammunition and never return after they leave his gun. However, a value…