The Creed

<p>The Christian community is what the Church is constituted of. Community and </p><p>Church are the same. They both have their roots and origin in the divine in the ultimate </p><p>reality. The Church is not merely a collection of believers of people taking part in the </p><p>same ceremonies and practices believing in the same principles. The Church is both </p><p>visible and invisible heavenly and earthly. It exists within the time-space continuum and </p><p>outside it at once. In a Platonic sense the Christian community (Church) is the Idea </p><p>which is reflected by every individual taking part in it (every Christian as an individual). </p><p>Likewise the Apostles' Creed is rooted in the eternal truth in the eternal principles </p><p>expressed in Scripture in the teaching of Christ and in the books of the Christian </p><p>theologians. All this should indicate that the Christian faith is not merely a matter of </p><p>convention but it is instead a matter of correspondence between our beliefs and practices </p><p>on the one hand and the ultimate reality (God) on the other. </p>