History always repeats itself. Adoptionism: Jesus was not God. Condemned at Synod of Antioch A.D. 268; Pelagianism: Original sin did not taint man. Condemned at Council of Carthage in A.D. 411. 25 more “isms.”

Today’s “progressive” is really “regressive” and not Christianity at all. False teachings in the early church were corrected with creedal statements that were easily remembered. The Bible would not be printed until AD 1450. The debate was completed by the fourth century.

Nicene Creed -- First Council of Nicaea in 325:

“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

“And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father...God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

“Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

“And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father [and the Son]; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets...I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.”

Amen.