Nicene–Constantinopolitan Creed

And he taught me philosophy of religion.

And the questions I was having, or the more critical attitude I was having towards our beliefs, especially every week at Mass, we say the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.

Sure.

basically a longer version of the Nicene Creed, which lays out what we believe.

And so this makes it very difficult to actually nail down what his position is on the early church or what Protestant evangelicalism is for him.

When we have thousands of Protestant sects today, thousands of different evangelical groups, we're going to see, I think, that not any of those have the ability to fulfill the the four marks of the church that we're going to talk about today, not beginning with the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, which is where we get the four marks of one holy Catholic apostolic, but rather we're going to go to the Old Testament to see that the Old Testament itself and the prophets predict coming period when the Gentiles will turn to the God of Israel that will be one of the signs that the kingdom has come the Messianic era has come and thus we're going to see within that first thousand years of Christianity that the fulfillment of those many prophecies throughout the Torah the Psalms the minor prophets major prophets etc all points to only one possibility being the one true church and As we said, the Nice to You Know Council Apology and Creed from 381, the Council in 381.

The Second Ecumenical Council states that there's one holy Catholic and apostolic church.

You've probably heard Roman Catholics say this is their four marks that proves the true church.

The argument is that throughout the eras and the centuries and the ages, there will not be an apostasy of this teaching of the church.

The church will not lose these four marks that...

The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed lays out one holy Catholic apostolic.

So it's just simply irrelevant to this argument.

Remember that as Catholics we have four great and holy creeds.

We have the Apostles' Creed, we have the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and the Tridentine Profession of Faith.

The Profession of Faith from the Holy Council of Trent, the year of our Lord, 1564.

Another term that we can use for this is also the dogma of the faith.

And the Council of Nicaea or the, you know, the Nicene Creed as modified at the first Council of Constantinople.

So the technically the Nicene Constantinopolitan Creed or the Nicene Creed as we say it, that's the ecumenical faith of the Nicene.

Athanasian Creed, that's the ecumenical faith.

The definition of Chalcedon, that's the ecumenical faith.

In Reformed tradition, we

read the Nicene Constantinople Creed.

A little bit updated, a little bit more refined language.

But that's the original one.

This term employs a prominent place in the creed that Catholics recited every Sunday Mass.

So the creed, you know, the Nicene Creed, it's actually the Nicene Constantinopolitan Creed, because that creed from Nicaea was tweaked somewhat at Constantinople I.

And during the creed, what happens, what do Catholics do when this phrase, he became man, is pronounced? We bow.

We bow.