Related Posts: The Trinity; Who is Jesus?-To a Mormon; Are Satan and Jesus Brothers?; Whom do we Worship?; Mormonism and the Creeds of Christendom; Godhead: God or Gods? This post will compare the LDS understanding of the nature of Christ to that of normative Christianity. A good place to begin the comparison is with the … Continue reading “The Nature of Christ”
Related Posts: The Trinity; Who is Jesus?-To a Mormon; Are Satan and Jesus Brothers?; Whom do we Worship?; Mormonism and the Creeds of Christendom; Godhead: God or Gods?
This post will compare the LDS understanding of the nature of Christ to that of normative Christianity. A good place to begin the comparison is with the creed of Chalcedon, which states that Christ has two natures, that he is both fully divine and fully human. Continue reading “The Nature of Christ”
Related Posts: Mormonism and the Creeds of Christendom. President Hinckley said “Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the … Continue reading “Four Important Early Christian Creeds”
Related Posts: Mormonism and the Creeds of Christendom.
President Hinckley said “Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation who saw before him the great God of the universe and His Beloved Son, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ” (Gordon B. Hinckley, “We Look to Christ,” Liahona, July 2002). So I thought it might be of interest to include four important creeds.
The text for each of these creeds is taken from the Creeds of Christendom, by Philip Schaff. The words in brackets are from Schaff; they present clarification and/or latter additions to the text. Continue reading “Four Important Early Christian Creeds”