Subject: "Once Saved Always Saved" |
Bible Note: Throughout the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Apostles, on the day of Pentecost, while still under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost, composed our present Creed between them, each of the Apostles contributing one of the twelve articles. This legend dates back to the sixth century (see Pseudo-Augustine in Migne, P.L., XXXIX, 2189, and Pirminius, ibid., LXXXIX, 1034), and it is foreshadowed still earlier in a sermon attributed to St. Ambrose (Migne, P.L., XVII, 671; Kattenbusch, I, 81), which takes notice that the Creed was "pieced together by twelve separate workmen". [Excerpt from the Catholic Enclyclopedia] And the belief concerning the Apostles Creed is based on tradition rather than fact. If the apostles did write that creed on the day of Pentecost, isn't it surprising that it is not mentioned in Acts 2, nor anywhere else in scripture? |