# Athanasian Creed

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> Athanasian Creed
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> 1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; 
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> 2. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. 
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> 3. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; 
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> 4. Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance. 
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> 5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. 
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> 6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. 
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> 7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. 
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> 8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated. 
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> 9. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible. 
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> 10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. 
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> 11. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal. 
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> 12. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible. 
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> 13. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty. 
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> 14. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty. 
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> 15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; 
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> 16. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. 
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> 17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord; 
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> 18. And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord. 
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> 19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; 
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> 20. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords. 
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> 21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. 
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> 22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten. 
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> 23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. 
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> 24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. 
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> 25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another. 
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> 26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal. 
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> 27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. 
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> 28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. 
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> 29. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
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> 30. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. 
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> 31. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world. 
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> 32. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. 
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> 33. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood. 
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> 34. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ. 
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> 35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God. 
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> 36. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. 
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> 37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ; 
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> 38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead; 
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> 39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God, Almighty; 
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> 40. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. 
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> 41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies; 
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> 42. and shall give account of their own works. 
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> 43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. 
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> 44. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
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> — *Athanasian Creed*