The Religion Guy’s answer: No text ever written can compare with the impact of the Nicene Creed in this way: Whenever the world’s two billion-plus Christians gather for their regular Communion services, most recite these ancient words to define their core beliefs affirmed across the centuries, in a multitude of nations and languages, in churches that may differ on many other matters.
This New Year marks the 1,700th anniversary of this credo, which was produced by bishops attending Christianity’s first recognized “ecumenical” (that is, universal) council, as opposed to regional councils and synods. They met in the town of Nicaea, present-day Iznik, Turkey, to decide nothing less than who is the Jesus Christ we worship, believe in, and follow?
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