We believe in God, the Father
almighty creator of heaven and earth.
We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
born of the Virgin Mary
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
He descended into hell*.
On the thrid day He rose again;
He ascended into heaven
He is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic church*,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
AMEN.
Scripture taken from
New Internation Version
Job 38:17 "Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?"
Matthew 12:39-40 "He answered, 'A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.'
Ephesians 4:7-10 "But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: When he ascended on high, He led captives in his train and gave gifts to men. (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also decended to the lower earthly regions?
He who descended is the very one who ascended higher
than all the heavens in order to fill the whole universe.)
The word "Catholic" refers not to the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ
