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(QUICUNQUE VULT)
This Creed and its stringent wording was introduced because of disputes from the Gnostics including Sabellius about the Tri-Une Godhead (Trinity).
[1] Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the (universal) faith, [2] which except everyone shall have kept whole and undefiled, without doubt he will perish eternally. [3] Now the (universal) Faith is this: We worship One God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, [4] neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance. [5] For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit. [6] But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is One, the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. [7] Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit; [8] the Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated; [9] the Father infinite, the Son infinite, and the Holy Spirit infinite; [10] the Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. [11] And yet not three eternals but one eternal, [12] as also not three infinites, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one infinite. [13] So, likewise, the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty; and yet not three almighties but one almighty. [15] So the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Spirit God; [16] and yet not three Gods but one God. [17] So the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord; [18] and yet not three Lords but one Lord. [19] For like as we are compelled by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be both God and Lord; [20] so are we forbidden by the (universal) religion to say, there be three Gods or three Lords. [21] The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. [22] The Son is of the Father alone, not made nor created but begotten. [23] The Holy Spirit is of the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten but proceeding. [24] So there is one Father not three Fathers, one Son not three Sons, and Holy Spirit not three Holy Spirits. [25] And in this Trinity there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less, [26] but the whole three Persons are coeternal together and coequal. [27] So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Trinity in Unity and the Unity in Trinity is to be worshipped. [28] He therefore who wills to be in a state of salvation, let him think thus of the Trinity. [29] But it is necessary to eternal salvation that he also believe faithfully the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. [30] The right faith therefore is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man. [31] He is God of the substance of the Father begotten before the worlds, and He is man of the substance of His mother born in the world; [32] perfect God, perfect man subsisting of a reasoning soul and human flesh; [33] equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. [34] Who although He be God and Man yet He is not two but one Christ; [35] one however not by conversion of the GodHead in the flesh, but by taking of the Manhood in God; [36] one altogether not by confusion of substance but by unity of Person. [37] For as the reasoning soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ. [38] Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again from the dead, [39] ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, [40] from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. [41] At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies [42] and shall give account for their own works. [43] And they that have done good shall go into life eternal, and they who indeed have done evil into eternal fire. [44] This is the (universal) faith, which except a man shall have believed faithfully and firmly he cannot be in a state of salvation.
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