Subject: A New Reformation? |
Bible Note: Dear Darcy, The following reflects what I believe a creed to be: A creed, according to its general acceptation, is a summary of certain principles adopted by an association of individuals as articles of belief, by which they agree to be governed. The word is of Latin origin, being derived from the verb credo (I believe). According to ecclesiastical usage, a creed is an exhibition in human language of what are believed by its framers to be the great doctrines of the Bible. As a formula of the faith, it possesses no independent authority, but derives its very existence, and all the regard to which it lays claim from the Bible. It does not profess to make known any thing which has not already been revealed, nor does it undertake to constitute any thing truth which was not truth before; but its office is simply to draw forth from the word of God the great truths therein revealed, and state them in plain, intelligible language. (http://www.covenanter.org/Pressly/churchfellowship.htm) A creed is man's attempt to set forth the those doctrines which accurately reflect the truth of Scripture. Any church that sets it's creed on the same par with Scripture itself (claiming infallibility of it's creed) is apostate and I would shake the dust off my shoes and depart from it! Thankfully most churches still hold to sola scriptura (The Scripture alone). Check out Pressely at the web site listed above. John |