From the earliest creed of the earliest days of the Church—
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic [universal] Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.”[1]
[1] William G. T. Shedd, A History of Christian Doctrine, Vol. 2 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1999), 431-32.
Diapsalmata 