Romans 1:3-4 refers to Romans 1:2 just before it which mentions an existing gospel, and in effect may be treating it as an earlier creed.

It is likely that the earliest creed of Christianity that deserves the title in full is the Apostles' Creed.

Contemporary trance-dance has an obvious fit with Mr. Smith's early creed: "repetition in the music, and we're never gonna lose it."

For one thing, the burial is mentioned by the apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15:3-7, where he passes on a very early creed of the church.

So when this early Christian creed says Jesus was buried and then raised on the third day, it's saying implicitly but quite clearly: an empty tomb was left behind.

"You're saying that these facts convince you, as a conservative evangelical Christian, that this is an early creed."

Belief in the Awliya is an agreed upon article of faith in Sunni Islam having been mentioned in the earliest creeds to the most recent.

The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early ecumenical creeds which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith.

He said that the New Testament was misread to make Jesus seem divine, a view cemented into the church's early creeds.

It is for those who are committed to proclaim the historic Christian faith as expressed in the early ecumenical creeds and the confessions of the Calvinist Reformation.