Originally Posted by
Richard
Baptist: "We have tended to avoid embracing prepared creeds or other statements that might compromise our obligation to interpret Scripture as individuals within the community of faith under the guidance of the Holy Spirit."
First Christian Church: The Bible is our sole authority. Christian churches have rejected man-made creeds, doctrinal statements, and hierarchies. We use the Bible alone for guidance in matters of doctrine, structure, and practice. Many Christian churches have as a slogan, "No book but the Bible, no creed but Christ."
No Creed But Christ --- Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ, and Independent Christian Churches.
Time to find out if they conform to the teachings of the Bible that are imprinted into the meaning of the creeds. Do they teach that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God in three Persons? Do they teach that God has been God from everlastings and will continued into eternity future as the Only GOD? That Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit. That He lived a sinless life died on the cross and rose the third day. That He ascended into heaven taking His rightful place at the right hand of the Father.
That is what the creeds teach so which part of that are you saying that any Christian church is rejecting? I hadn't even read the creeds until I came online to start a witnessing ministry. It was the Mormons I met here that forced me to read it.. I had be saying the same thing as these churches, that the Bible is my creed.. Then I read them. God spoke to me of their purpose. I see the Gospel taught within them..
The mormon creed doesn't address the real teaching about who the church believes God to be just a statement that they believe in a God they call the Father.. It also says they believe in a Jesus, and a Holy Ghost but never address who or what they are.. To find that out you have to delve into LDS History:
I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit, and these three cons***ute three distinct personages and three Gods. If this is in accordance with the New Testament, lo and behold! we have three Gods anyhow, and they are plural: and who can contradict it? (
http://www.boap.org/LDS/History/Hist..._Church/Vol_VI)
Who can contradict it.. Jesus can:
Mark 12:29
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord
The LORD our God is one Lord.. that does the *** of showing that Smith was a polytheistic false teacher..
So show were the Creeds are outside what the modern Church teaches and I will agree with you that the creeds are the teachings of men.. As I said when I first read them I saw the Gospel embedded within them.. the same Gospel I found in the Bible.. IHS jim