I believe in one God,
The Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before
all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with
the Father through Whom all things were made.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the
Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried; And He rose on
the third day, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father; And He will come
again with glory to judge the living and dead.
His kingdom shall have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life,
Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped
and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.
Amen.
The Nicene Creed is one of the most famous and influential creeds in the history of the church, because it settled the question of how Christians can worship one God and also claim that this God is three persons.
It was also the first creed to obtain universal authority in the church, and it improved the language of the Apostles’ Creed by including more specific statements about the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit.
What we call the Nicene Creed is actually the product of two ecumenical councils—one in Nicaea (present-day Iznik, Turkey) in AD 325, and one in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in AD 381—and a century of debate over the nature of the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Zondervan Academic)
