Protestant Creeds, Confessions & Catechisms

Over the centuries since the start of the Christian New Testament church, Protestant creeds, confessions & catechisms were developed to attempt to combat heretical teachings. These documents have also served to systematically map out Bible doctrines for properly instructing individual believers and for specific denominations, with regards to where in scripture a particular doctrine can be found – i.e. what is the scriptural justification for such-and-such a Christian doctrine. It is this author’s belief that much of the current error and heresy in the modern Christian Church could be eliminated if those creeds were resurrected and seriously studied by church elders and young believers alike.
 

Index To Creeds, Confessions & Catechisms:

• An Introduction To The Canons of Dordt
• Catechisms Of Protestant Churches
• Confessions – Statements Of Faith
• Creeds Of Protestantism
• Keach’s Catechism
• Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (1517)
• The 39 Articles Of The Church of England
• The Apostle’s Creed
• The Baptist Confession Of Faith Of 1689
• The Belgic Confession
• The Five Articles of the Remonstrants
• The Heidelberg Catechism
• The Larger Catechism Of The Presbyterian Church
• The Lutheran Formula Of Concord
• The Nicene Creed
• The Savoy Declaration Of Faith And Order Of 1658
• The Shorter Catechism Of The Presbyterian Church
• The Three Forms of Unity of the Reformed Church
• The Westminster Confession Of Faith
• Waldensian Confessions of Faith

Related books and literature about Reformers and Protestantism:

• Books About Protestantism
• Reformed Ministries worth checking out
• Project Gutenberg’s On-Line Book Library
• Monergism: Articles, MP3s & Resources on the Historic Christian Faith
• Chapel Library – Sending Christ-Centered materials from prior centuries worldwide
• The Spurgeon Archive – writings of preacher Charles Spurgeon
• Banner Of Truth – Reformed Christian literature on-line and in-print

A Narrower Creed

 
The Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed which are subscribed to by many churches and denominations are so broad in scope that even apostate churches agree with those creeds.  Here is a creed that only the lover’s of God’s sovereignty can agree with:
 
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ fully and finally accomplished redemption for all of God’s elect when He died on the cross of Calvary. We believe that when He died as our Substitute under the wrath of God that He fully and finally satisfied Divine justice by paying the sin debt and thereby secured salvation for all for whom He died. We believe that Christ through the Holy Spirit will also succeed in effectually calling and bringing all that He died for with Him into everlasting Glory. We believe that any gospel that robs our Lord of this, HIS glory in the finished, successful, accomplished work of salvation, is another gospel…. which is no gospel at all. Now, there’s the real offense and power of the gospel. Do you believe that? – Greg Elmquist, Apopka, FL

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