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Nicene

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ARTICLE ONE

  • Concerns God the Father
  • States that God created everything
  • God is omnipotent
  • Dogma
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ARTICLE TWO

  • Articles 2-7 concern God the Son
  • God the Father begot God the Son
  • Doctor of the Church, St Ambrose, battled Arianism which taught
  • that Jesus was not the son of God
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ARTICLE THREE

  • Jesus is eternal and everlasting
  • He is the only son of God
  • Colossians 1:19
  • "Jesus is the image of God in the flesh and the fullness of God
  • dwells in Him."

ARTICLE FOUR

  • Affirms that Jesus had a human will all well as a divine one
  • Was born to Mary
  • His human nature allowed Him to die
  • Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas, added this to the Creed

ARTICLE FIVE

  • Confirms that Jesus rose from the dead by His own divine will
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church 638
  • "The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ."
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ARTICLE SIX

  • Showed that both the Divine and Human wills could go to Heaven
  • Inspired people to one day follow Jesus to Heaven
  • Mark 16:19
  • "So then the Lord, after He spoke to them, was taken up into
  • Heaven and sat down at the right hand of the Father."

ARTICLE SEVEN

  • Affirms the Second Coming of Christ
  • Judgement Day
  • Joel 2:1
  • "Let all of the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the
  • Lord cometh, for it is night at hand"
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ARTICLE EIGHT

  • Concerns the Holy Spirit
  • God exists in three persons equally
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church 687
  • "God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes Christ known to us, His word,
  • His living utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of Himself."

ARTICLE NINE

  • The Church is an essential thing to believe in
  • The Saints are watching over you
  • 1 Corinthians 12:27
  • "Now you are Christ's body and individually members of it"

ARTICLE TEN

  • Christ saved the world from sin
  • Sins are forgiven in Penance and Baptism
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church 431
  • "Because sin is always an offence against God, only he can forgive it"

ARTICLE ELEVEN

  • During Judgement Day the dead will be Resurrected
  • We will go body and soul into Heaven of Hell
  • Father of the Church, St Augustine, believed that the Faith encountered
  • the most opposition on the topic of Resurrection on Judgment day.
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ARTICLE TWELVE

  • After we die, we will either live forever in Hell or Heaven
  • CCC 1033
  • "The state of definitive self esclusion from communion with God is
  • called Hell"
  • Heaven is a place of perfect harmony with God where we wish to go
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