I believe in God the Father almighty, 
Creator of heaven and earth. 
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, 
our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, 
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell; the third day 
He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sits at 
the right hand of God the Father 
almighty, from thence He shall come
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints, 
the forgiveness of sins, 
the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
Amen.

–The Apostles’ Creed (390 A.D.)–

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He is the Good Shepherd
And He’s laid down His life for His sheep
So out of many nations
He’s gathered one fold in one faith
And He has built His church
On the rock foundation of faith
On apostles and prophets
Who shepherd the people in His place

There is one faith, one hope
And one baptism
One God and Father of all
There is one church, one body
One life in the Spirit
Now given so freely to all

And He gave to Simon Peter
And to all of the Twelve
The keys of the kingdom
So darkness shall never prevail
But some of the shepherds
Have pastured themselves on their sheep
So He has come out against them
And scattered His people of faith

But there still is one faith, one hope
And one baptism
One God and Father of all
There is one church, one body
One life in the Spirit
Now given so freely to all

In good pasture He will shepherd His people
On the mountaintops He feeds His sheep
He will heal the poor and the fickle
To the prisoner He brings relief

So there is one faith, one hope
And one baptism
One God and Father of all
There is one church, one body
One life in the Spirit
Now given so freely to all

Yet He’ll not forsake His people
He’ll claim His sheep for His own
He’ll send out His word to the nations
To gather His people back home
For He is the Good Shepherd
He’s laid down His life for His sheep
So out of many nations
He’s gathered one fold in one faith

There is one faith, one hope
And one baptism
One God and Father of all
There is one church, one body
One life in the Spirit
Now given so freely to all
There is one faith, one hope
And one baptism
One God and Father of all
There is one church, one body
One life in the Spirit
Now given so freely
Given so freely to all

–Michael Card and John Michael Talbot, “One Faith”–

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The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant of Scripture, but repugnant to the Word of God.

–Methodist Articles of Religion, XIV.–

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Catechism of the Catholic Church (USCCB Publishing, 1995), part 1.2.2.4.2. “For our sake God made him to be sin.” Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: “You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers…with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.” Man’s sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death. By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God “made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (602).

Samuel Waldron, A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (Evangelical Press, 1989).

Voice of America, “Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Provokes Worldwide Controversy.” If you really believe in your faith you will be persecuted for it and there is a sacrifice in each faith that many people won’t understand and make fun of. This film does not play the ‘blame game’ in any means. You will see, like in all humanity, it is us up there. There are good people, bad people, indifferent people: we are all culpable in the death of Christ and this film portrays that [Mel Gibson].

David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade (Spire Books, 1973). In the Spring of 1966, two Duquesne University professors were ASKING, SEEKING, and KNOCKING. They had pledged themselves to pray daily for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit in their lives using the beautiful Sequence Hymn of Pentecost. In the midst of this time of prayer, some friends gave them two books: The Cross and the Switchblade and They Speak With Other Tongues. Both books describe the experience of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The men from Duquesne realized that this Baptism in the Spirit was precisely what they were searching for [Patti Gallagher Mansfield].