Creed

Okay, so I know I just posted (you should read the below post too) but my mind is swimming and if I don't write this down now I'll forget it by Monday. We are supposed to write a creed for theology. This will need some finishing but...

I believe in One God, God of life and God of creation. I believe in God the Father, who loves each person as His own, whose patience and grace and mercy extend beyond comprehension, who seeks a relationship with sinners and saints. I believe in God the Son, who lived on Earth, who became human, who was with the lowliest, who died and suffered as a common criminal, and who overcame death and rose on the third day. I believe in the God the Holy Spirit, who is ever present in creation, who moves the world, who works in the world, through the world, and beyond the world.

In God is the hope of creation. Without God the world does not know love, it does not know mercy, it does not know faith, it does not know grace. Through the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, creation knows virtue because creation sees what it lacks, creation sees what it distorts, creation sees what it demands for itself but denies to others. Christ as fully human and fully divine redeems humanity, commands humanity to follow the Will of God. God as three in one is perfectly complete, yet by grace made a good creation and sought a relationship with creation. By grace gave creation free will and by grace continues to seek a relationship despite our corruption of that free will. Because of grace creation is reconciled to God and because we are reconciled to God, not through any doing of our own we are called to mirror that grace to the rest of creation and be reconciled as one whole and good creation by God, a complete creation.

I believe that because God chose to come to the sinners, calling them His, we are too called to fellowship with sinners, not to discriminate on any basis, because God did not discriminate on any basis. I believe that because God loved us first, we are able to love each other. I believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit do not dwell in the remote, but dwell continually with creation, not confined to it, but ever present with it. Because we have seen echoes of perfection, we are changed, we cannot simply resign ourselves from the world because Perfection has not resigned Itself from the world. I believe that God will always be revealing Himself to those that believe and desire a relationship, even so, God and God's works will continue to be a mystery because I am limited. I believe that even though I am limited, God calls me to try and comprehend Him and creation. I believe that because God created the entirety of everything, that everything must work for good in the end.