[1] God the Father Almighty,

[2] Christ Jesus His Son,

[3] Who was born of the Virgin Mary,

[4] Crucified under Pontius Pilate & buried;

[5] Who Arose from the dead on the third day,

[6] and Ascended into the Heavens;

[7] Sits enthroned at the Right Hand of the Father, (Reigning over the Kingdom,

[8] From whence He shall come to Judge the living and dead;

[9] I believe in the Holy Spirit,

[10] The Holy catholic (universal) Church,

[11] The Resurrection of the flesh

[12] With Life Everlasting!

This Oldest Form is criticized by the ‘uninformed world’ for not being ‘grammatically correct’ (Creeds are to be recited as statements of faith, they are not poems!)

This APOSTLES CREED is said to have originated as Jesus Christ’s Twelve Disciples went in turn around a table & expressed Christ’s Teaching that impressed them the most!

Thus there are 12-Statements of Christ’s Teaching in His Words! Whether or not this is true, is not the issue. The point is, this is the oldest and one of the most widely disseminated documents in New Testament Christianity.

In the days before "pencil-&-paper" when long books could not easily be written down, we find the Apostle's Creed is that which went into many lands, many hands, many homes and has been a "teaching tool" for new converts for 2000 years.

As the great Scholar Gamaliel - who instructed the Apostle Paul - taught: 'If it is not of God, it will come to naught, and if it is of God, it can neither be nullified or destroyed.'

GREAT ADVANTAGES:

This ancient and widely used document for many, many centuries - and still used globally today - in it's great simplicity, is easily grasped by the nations of the world, most who struggle with English language.

With no modern-&-difficult-to-define words - such as trinity, rapture, pre-millennial, post-millennial, amillennial, pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, sacraments, "church service", clergy, laity, denomination, etc., homiletics, hermeneutics, apologetics, and all of the modern constructs not used in the Word-of-God over which we "dispute-&-divide:"

This simple statement - so easily accepted by Bible-Believing groups of many kinds, quickly separates the "BELIEVERS" from the "MODERN DOUBTERS" who quickly reject

> The Deity of Christ

> His Virgin Birth

> His Bodily Resurrection

> His literal Ascension

> His Presence in His Spirit

> His reigning from Heaven at the Right Hand of the Father now

> His resurrection of all flesh at the last day

> His literal return to earth in Triumph & Glory

> Final judgement

It cannot be proved how this document formed, but it is beyond dispute the Oldest Creed, from the Apostles, & has been used for nearly 2000 years, and in the early centuries was said by individuals at Baptism, and by the Church Assembled, at Worship, and at the Lord's Supper - Communion - and at the bedside of the sick, and funerals