The Apostles Creed - Did the apostles each contribute to its writing?
Our Adult Education program is preparing to teach a class on the Apostles Creed. Long recognized as a credal statement of the church, the Apostles Creed has been adopted by the CADRE as its statement of Christianity. As it formerly said on our website (which will return in the future), all members of the CADRE hold to the Apostles Creed (as understood by their church tradition) as a statement of the beliefs necessary to be Christian. If a person does not hold to one or more of the clauses of the creed, then the CADRE long ago agreed that person should not be part of a group arguing for the truth of Christianity because he/she is denying one of the basic tenets of Christianity. I have been selected to teach an introductory session about the Apostles Creed - what it is and when it was written. Surprisingly I have found a lot of contradictory material about the origin of the Creed. For example, I found that there is a tradition that the various parts of the creed were written by the Apo...