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Who Needs a Creed?

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  • Mark G. Johnston

A creed is important as an expression of the Christian faith, a tool to teach the faith, a summary of the faith. Its purpose is to guard the gospel truth and to express the personal faith.

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No Creed but Christ?

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  • Rodney G. Miersma

It is impossible for the church to exist without a creed. This is so because the church has the duty to confess the truth. This article defines what a creed is, and gives the origin and necessity of creeds.

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Creed and Theology: Reflections on Colossians

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  • William Lane Craig

What is the relationship between theological expression and the creedal character of the gospel? In what sense is the gospel a creed? This essay defends the thesis that the theology of Paul is given a structure as a creed. This creed remained constant and unchanging. The author illustrates it from the way Paul defends the gospel in Colossians, in particular Colossians 1 and Colossians 2.

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What We Believe (A Commentary on the Belgic Confession)

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  • Johan D. Tangelder

Why should we study a creed? This article looks at the importance of doctrine, what is a creed, and the historical background of the Belgic Confession.

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The Character of the Church's Creeds

  • Semi-Technical
  • Louis Praamsma

This article looks at freedom and binding to the confessions, and what to do when we have a problem with a specific point of a church creed.

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Schools and Creeds

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  • Jelle Faber

Is it worth keeping the Reformed creeds in Christian schools, or should these be replaced, or supplemented with, an educational creed? This article answers by considering what a creed really is, and from there reaffirms the immense value of restricting ourselves to having just the historical creeds functioning in the schools.

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Thoughts on the Sufficiency of Scripture: What it Does and Doesn't Mean

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  • John Piper

Throughout the history of the church, heretics often protested against orthodox confessions on the ground of the so-called "non-scriptural language" of the orthodox creed. They pointed out that phrases such as “of one essence with the Father,” and “one substance with the Father” were not to be found in Scripture. Heretics often used the argument “no creed but the Bible” precisely so that they could use biblical language to evade biblical truth.

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