Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go

deeper in their faith than ever before and they don't have to go to seminary to

do it. I am so glad you're here and I hope you'll join me on this journey

because every woman is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast.

We are in episode three of our church history series studying the early church

from AD33 to AD500 and today we're talking about the creeds and the councils.

So when I was thinking about how to break down this entire series I thought you know

when you're looking at a 500 year chunk of church history there's just so much to cover

and if you listened to last week's episode on the world of the early church you know I was

trying to race through all of this context all of this history and I mentioned several of the

councils and creeds along the way but this week we're going to do a deeper dive into those councils

and look at some of the creeds that our churches are still saying during worship today.

So we're going to start with the Apostles Creed. The Apostles Creed is something that most of us

are familiar with but if you're not familiar it's simply a statement of faith or a statement of

beliefs summing up Christian fundamentals and this one was probably taken from something called

the old Roman creed which we don't have written down but was likely the origin of the Apostles

Creed and developed sometime in the first or second century so very very early as a way to

summarize what Christians hold to. So this is the oldest creed in the church and it's called

the Apostles Creed because a sixth century tradition attributes the 12 articles of the creed

to the 12 Apostles so the idea is that one of the Apostles submitted one of the statements in

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