“the creed" is, in fact, the ABC's of Orthodoxy. Often, people who practically do not go to Church, hear this word, but have no idea what it is. This article will be useful for those who want to learn more about this prayer. The text is drafted according to the answers of the priests, the Holy fathers of the Orthodox.
As you know from the old Testament, originally had no land, one water, over which was worn the Holy Spirit. God himself ruled over all the world, the Universe. He has founded the Earth: water, then land. On land and in the water, there was life. What are you talking about? That God the Father, who created everything, and the Holy Spirit have always existed and will never end their existence, they are eternal.
When the first human beings, Adam and eve, the Earth was a Paradise. After the fall of the planet became what we see it - with all the sorrows, diseases and physical death. But the ancient people not everyone knew about God. The world came to Moses, who left the tables with the laws. He wrote day and night, listening to God.
Later came the New Testament-the gospel of the Savior of the world Jesus Christ, whom to this day is called the Son of God. Christ gave a new spiritual law to the people.
A few centuries after Christ, namely, in the fourth century, the Holy fathers in the Ecumenical Council created a “Symbol of faith”, which is very briefly but clearly explained all the tenets of the Orthodox Church from creation to the end of time.
Imagine that people born into the world, he has parents, a house and the whole world. Strange looks, if people do not know that it conceived and gave birth to mom and dad, whom he sees there every day. No less strange would look like if he doesn't realize that fire can seriously burn and cold in the winter you can freeze. These examples are of physical sense of life. But there is a spiritual world that we can simultaneously see and not see. Just mentioned in the first clause of the prayer "the creed" (modern and understandable language-sentence): “I Believe in one God, the Father Almighty, …, all things visible and invisible”.
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Next, the Christian should have an idea that God the Father is not alone, with him there is the Holy Spirit and the Son of God-Jesus Christ who came down from Heaven to earth to save people from hell awaiting all after bodily death.
The Next mention of the Holy Spirit, who helped the ancient prophets, the saints see that there is a God and there is a spiritual law. Then referred to the Christian Church is one, Catholic and Apostolic. And finally ends with a chant belief in the resurrection of all who sleep, and be buried, and also about life after doomsday.
Orthodox Christian, not knowing any of these dogmas, will not be able to fully have an understanding of their faith. In addition, he confirms that his faith is very strong, and he knows what all that is, was and will be, as it is written in prayer.
To make it easier to understand how the text of the prayer "the creed" in Russian, or rather in Church Slavonic, see illustration below.
In fact, prayer is in every Orthodox prayer book in the section with the morning prayers. It is worth noting that the faithful each day to read morning and evening prayers. And prayers, which is the focus of this article, you'll immediately after a ‘Psalm 50”. In addition, if the person does not have time to read all the rule in the morning, he can read summary – Seraphim of Sarov, who was commanded to read three times “our father” three “the virgin…» once «Symbol of faith”. That is, it suggests that this prayer – lifestyle on a par with the «our father”. Also at the Liturgy in all the churches and monasteries they are clergy, monks and laity.
When is a baby's baptism, they would not require to know the prayer, as the child is not yet aware of nothing. On the other hand, if a person was 7 years old, he, before becoming a Christian, we should study this prayer, to understand it.
Further, all Christians say it every day. Of course, modern man, but still a layman (someone who has not taken monastic vows), not every day can remember the prayers.
It is Important to read the prayer "the creed" with the emphasis as indicated in the prayer book. You can remember the phonetics and during the Liturgy of the Church.
As mentioned above, the text begins with the statement of faith in God the Father, who takes precedence over everything, who created the entire universe. Then the man says the words of Jesus Christ-the Son of God, born of the Holy spirit and the virgin Mary. Further reveals before us a brief account of His appearance on earth, betrayal under Pontius Pilate, His death and resurrection. All about our Lord told in the Gospels.
This book is the most important of the Christians. Then His resurrection and ascension. You must also believe that he ascended into heaven and continues to exist with God the Father, invisible to all. He further says about His second coming. The next mention of the Holy spirit and the Church. Be sure to "the creed" ends with the words “I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age. Amen”.
That is, Orthodox believers already know what future awaits all living things and, first and foremost, humanity.
Often people today come to Church already in conscious age, and even because of various afflictions. Rare to find now an adult who was a child in Soviet times, raised by Christian parents.
Often a person comes to God, begins to pray, knowing that many years of my life wasted without the Lord. Prayer begins to spiritually strengthen. Not immediately and not everyone explain how the Orthodox Universal Church. Only when the little man gets used to a new way of life, a little study commissioned service in the Church, then it Matures to the knowledge of the prayer "the creed".
The Text has never been translated into modern Russian language, like other ancient prayers. Orthodox believer is learning the alphabet and getting used to it gradually. A modern translation can distort the text so that it can be lost in the spiritual sense.
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