The Faith of the Apostles’ Creed - The Elementary Principles of CHRIST

There are three confessions manifested in the Apostles’ faith.
The first confession is that they believed in God the Father Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1); secondly, they confessed that Jesus Christ the Son of God had given them the remission of their sins; and the third confession is that they believed that Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit. We must also confess that we believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, for we must have the same faith as the Apostles.

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“Yahweh.” Appearing in the Scriptures for over 5,300 times, Yahweh is the most common name by which God revealed Himself to mankind. The Jewish people held God’s name as sacred, and they were very careful in invoking or calling Him by His name (Exodus 3:14). Bestowing great respect upon the name of Yahweh, they later adopted and used another name, Adonai, to call upon God. The meaning of this name is the Lord of all, in the following manner: 1) One that exists; 2) One that is the Lord of life; and 3) One that always was, always is, and will be exist forever by Himself.
We call God as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The name of the Son of God the Father is Jesus Christ. This name means He who saves His people from their sins.

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Our desire is that the Apostles’ faith be handed down to us in its unadulterated purity. This is our wish, and the hope of every Christian. Their faith should have been handed down to us sufficiently in written texts after their death. However, the true faith of the Apostles is revealed only in their Epistles, and this is why we are struggling to share and spread their faith.
What, then, is the faith of the Apostles? Strictly speaking, the Apostles’ Creed was made after the passing of the Apostolic Age. It is, in other words, a testament of the Apostles’ faith recorded by the generation who came after them.

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Since the Creed is called the Apostles’ Creed, we need to first find out who these Apostles were. The word Apostle means one who is sent forth. In Greek the word is “απόστολος” pronounced Apostolos, meaning a representative delegate who is entrusted with a mission. Strictly speaking, however, the title of Apostle is reserved only for the twelve disciples called upon by Jesus. But in a broader sense, it was applied to other eminent Christian teachers such as Barnabas (Acts 14:14).

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(1) Those who directly received the calling by Christ to spread the gospel of the water and the Spirit (Mark 3:13; Luke 6:13; Galatians 1:1).
(2) Those who lived with Christ and witnessed His works on earth. The disciples of Jesus Christ were witnesses to the fulfillment of the righteousness of God through Christ’s life (Acts 1:21-22; 1 Corinthians 9:1).
(3) Those who, being filled by the Holy Spirit, received the power to fulfill the works commanded by Christ (Acts 15:28; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 1 John 5:9-12).

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Jews believe in God, the Creator of the universe, who rules over the life and death of mankind and the rise and fall of nations, as their Father. In the Old Testament, God’s name is called “Elohim” or “Jehovah,” but in the New Testament it is Jesus Christ who is called as God.
Jesus Himself called God as “God the Father (John 6:27),” “Our Father who is in Heaven (Matthew 6:9),” “the Holy Father (John 17:11),” and “My Father (John 20:17),” teaching His disciples repeatedly to ensure that they would take His teaching to their hearts.

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The confession of the faith in the Apostles’ Creed is the declaration of the Apostles’ faith that affirms how exactly they believe in God. Like this, this faith must begin with the confession, “I believe in God the Father Almighty.”
The reason for doing so is because we want to have the faith that God wants from us. Leading the life of faith is for each individual to believe in the Triune God, for faith begins by thus knowing and believing in God the Almighty. This faith reflects the desire to have the faith that God wants from us. When we believe in God, it is impossible for us to reach the conclusion that God created the universe by relying on our own deductive thinking or experiments. We reach this conclusion only by believing the Word of God the Creator.

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The name Jesus, “Ιησούς (iesous)” in Greek, is originated from Hebrew name ישוע (yeh-ho-shoo’-ah(, meaning “Jehovah is salvation.”

Christ is משיח (mashiyach) in Hebrew and “Χριστός” (khris-tos) in Greek, meaning “the anointed one.” The name Christ is the New Testament’s appellation for the Old Testament’s Messiah. The expression “ό Χριστός (ho khris-tos)” that frequently appears in the Four Gospel is the word “Christ” preceded by the definite article “the,” telling us that Jesus is the absolute God Himself. God the Father, in other words, sent His own Son to deliver everyone living in this world from all sins.

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Jesus came through the body of a virgin.
Reason: To save human beings from sin, He had to come in their flesh.
In what form did He come?
He came in a form that had nothing to be desired of.
Jesus came to the nation of Israel in a flesh of a man through the body of the Virgin Mary. It was to fulfill the Word of prophecy for all humankind. Christ came to become the light for this dark world.

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The Old Testament tells us that when the people of Israel gave to God their offering of the remission of sin, they had to make sure to bring an unblemished animal and to put their hands on its head. And it is also written that when priests, on their behalf, killed the animal, drew its blood, put the blood on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and poured the rest of it on the ground, then they would receive the remission of a day’s worth of sins.
On the other hand, to be forgiven of a year’s worth of sins, Leviticus 16:6-10 states, “Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.” In the Bible, this scapegoat was to be abandoned in the wilderness.

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