However, one piece (or production) which favors a claim to apostolic origin and genuineness due to no specific internal proof of spuriousness, which is commonly called the Apostles' Creed, Symbolum Apostolicum.  It is the doctrine of the Roman Church that this Creed was composed of the apostles under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and was possessed of the same direct, divine, spiritual, canonical authority of Scripture.  Protestants denied it was composed by the apostles or had any authority, but they admitted it contains sound doctrine accorded and established by Scripture.

The Lutherans and Anglican churches adopted it with the Nicene and Athanasian creeds as part of their symbolical profession of faith.

            The Westminster divines subjoined it to the catechisms, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer with an explanatory statement: it was annexed because of the apostles' composition of canonical Scripture, but it summarizes the Christian faith and it was anciently received in the churches of Christ.

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Pentecostal and Charismatic churches of today are heretical through teaching false doctrine brought about because of a 2nd-century heresy and false teachings in heresies in the 1830s through the Mormons and the Quakers.  Paul stated in Galatians 1:8 that anyone, even an angel from heaven, teaching a gospel other than the one he had taught , let them be accursed, an anathema, that is, may they go to Hell .

Montanus set the model in the 2nd- century A.D. for the heretical Pentecostal and Charismatic churches of today.  These heretical churches of today create, supposedly, new revelation to Holy Scripture.  Only orthodox doctrine through Sola Scriptura as set forth through biblical hermeneutics and exegesis in biblical illumination, church history, and textual criticism can provide the Truth that is Jesus Christ, the Logos, who shall set us free in the drawing of the elect given to Him by the Father.

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A recent visitor asked the question “What are Calvinism and Arminianism?” 

It would take hours to completely answer your question; however, I will briefly describe Calvinism and Arminianism. Calvinism is so named after John Calvin, a Reformed theologian, who meticulously wrote and described the theology of the Reformation of Martin Luther and the others. The Reformation fostered Protestantism, which is not synonymous with the Reformation. Actually, a better name for Calvinism would be Reformed theology. Protestantism spawned all sorts of denominations such as Baptists etc.

The basic tenet or argument of Calvinism is that only by God’s grace, that is, God’s choosing His elect and giving them the grace so that they can have eyes to see and ears to hear the Gospel message so that they can become a new creature, that is, they are reborn. Then and only then can they have the love of Jesus Christ in the hearts because they are new creatures. Then and only then can they have the faith to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. How can a person have the ability when he or she are dead in sin, as the apostle Paul says? If you are dead in sin, then you need to be resurrected or reborn. You cannot have true faith while you are dead in sin.

Arminianism is named after Jacobus Arminius who basically taught that man has freewill and can choose God or not. In other words, man’s freewill can accept or deny the Sovereign God thereby thwarting or destroying God’s plans and desires. Calvinism is God-centered and Arminianism is man-centered. Is God some lonely old man hoping that man will choose him?

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