Just a quick look through the insightful commentary on the Creed so kindly provided by Gaudior...
"the Bible has been excellently served by publications going back over a century discussing its meaning."
"Jesus as king and lord is not helpful for us today. We need to use what is for us the best form of government and ascribe it to Jesus."
"The creed then goes on to describe Jesus as son in relation to God the Father using difficult phrases like begotten, not made and light from light. These can be understood by understanding the theological controversies of the time" - Really?
" A basic definition of Jesus is made here; although being Son of God, Jesus existed before the creation of the world and is of the nature of God rather than of the created world." Unless I'm mistaken, even Arius would agree there...
"The influence of Jesus continued after his death so that his followers experienced it as if he was alive with them. They used the idiom to express this of resurrection after death common among the religions of the time."
"Those of us who have difficulty with such a Resurrection argue that we stress the immanence of the divine, that there is no beyond the normal, miraculous, transcendent world where God really lives. God exists in the same world of the laws of nature that we live in."
"Within the boundary were the churches of the Roman Empire. Outside were the churches in the east, in Iran, India and later in China, which were given the name Nestorian and the churches in the south in Egypt and Ethiopia which were called Monophysite. These were all regarded as heretical so that they were no longer included in church deliberations."
"there is an opinion that the formation of a creed as it was done in the early church leads to fragmentation, indeed that the motive of writing the creed was to exclude those of a different point of view. This fragmentation should be avoided and therefore creeds should not be drawn up."
"In my own life I will take when I was once sitting on a park bench, my left arm stretched along the bench top. A blue tit came and perched for a few seconds on my finger. It was a difficult time in my life. After the blue tit flew off again I took some action to make things better. The coming of the bird had meaning for me partly because I knew it was unusual for this species, compared to robins and sparrows, to come so close to humans. And the event immediately struck chords with the thousands of years from my Jewish/Christian background of the interaction of God and man. I can see that if I had lived in mediaeval times I would have seen not a blue tit but an angel on my finger."
...It goes on and on and on and on. Gaudior, he's not worth getting mad at. He's just too ignorant of the world beyond self-help books and the tip of his nose. It's much more fun to laugh at his ideas, anyway.
That's my 2 cents more.
