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name: Athanasian Creed
publication_year: 6th century
type: creed
markdown: true
text: |

  Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the
  catholic faith. Which faith unless every one do keep whole and undefiled,
  without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this:
  that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding
  the Persons, nor dividing the Essence. For there is one Person of the Father;
  another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the
  Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the
  Majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is; such is the Son; and such is the
  Holy Ghost. The Father uncreated; the Son uncreated; and the Holy Ghost
  uncreated. The Father unlimited; the Son unlimited; and the Holy Ghost
  unlimited. The Father eternal; the Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost
  eternal. And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. As also there
  are not three uncreated; nor three infinites, but one uncreated; and one
  infinite. So likewise the Father is Almighty; the Son Almighty; and the Holy
  Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties; but one Almighty. So
  the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are
  not three Gods; but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord; the Son Lord; and
  the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords; but one Lord. For like as we are
  compelled by the Christian verity; to acknowledge every Person by himself to
  be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the catholic religion; to say, There
  are three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none; neither created,
  nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created; but
  begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor
  created, nor begotten; but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three
  Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And
  in this Trinity none is before, or after another; none is greater, or less
  than another. But the whole three Persons are coeternal, and coequal. So that
  in all things, as aforesaid; the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity,
  is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, let him thus think of
  the Trinity.

  Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation; that he also believe
  faithfully the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is,
  that we believe and confess; that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is
  God and Man; God, of the Essence of the Father; begotten before the worlds;
  and Man, of the Essence of his Mother, born in the world. Perfect God; and
  perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the
  Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father as touching his
  Manhood. Who although he is God and Man; yet he is not two, but one
  Christ. One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh; but by assumption of
  the Manhood by God. One altogether; not by confusion of Essence; but by unity
  of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man; so God and Man is
  one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again
  the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right
  hand of the God the Father Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the
  living and the dead. At whose coming all men will rise again with their
  bodies; And shall give account for their own works. And they that have done
  good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into
  everlasting fire. This is the catholic faith; which except a man believe truly
  and firmly, he cannot be saved.
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