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Nicea I: Creed

Nicea I (325 A.D.)

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Letter to the Egyptians

We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, that is, of the substance [ek tes ousias] of the Father, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of the same substance with the Father [homoousion¹ to patri], through whom all things were made both in heaven and on earth; who for us men and our salvation descended, was incarnate, and was made man, suffered and rose again the third day, ascended into heaven and cometh to judge the living and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost.
Those who say: There was a time when He was not, and He was not before He was begotten; and that He was made our of nothing (ex ouk onton); or who maintain that He is of another hypostasis or another substance [than the Father], or that the Son of God is created, or mutable, or subject to change, [them] the Catholic Church anathematizes.

1. The phrase, "one iota" stems from this document. Some of the Fathers wished to say "homoiousion," meaning "of similar substance," instead of homoousion, meaning "same substance." The difference in the two words is one letter, the Greek iota "ι" - the letter i.

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