Athanasius of Alexandria, Creed

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to give an account for their own works and those who have done good will go into eternal life, but those who have done evil into eternal fire. This i

having done shall go into life eternal, but they that have done evil into eternal fire. This is the catholic faith, which unless a man believe faithfu

day from the dead. He ascended into the heavens, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty, from where he will come to judge the living and th

an assumption, a perfect human substance, hypostatic to him and indivisible from him, incapable of 28.1592 sin the body having been formed from the p

an assumption, a perfect human substance, hypostatic to him and indivisible from him, incapable of 28.1592 sin; the body having been formed from the pure virginal blood of the Mother of God, without any carnal will or thought; and the soul having been created immaterially, intelligent, rational, volitional, active, wholly deified along with the flesh from its very beginning, from its first existence, through the supreme union with God the Word himself, unconfused according to hypostasis. He is therefore equal to the Father according to divinity, but less than the Father according to humanity. And he is truly true God and man; yet not two, but one is Christ; one, not because the flesh was changed, but because it was assumed into God; one altogether not by a confusion of substances, but by the union which is according to hypostasis. For just as a rational soul and flesh is one man, so also God and man is one Christ. Who suffered in the flesh for our salvation, his divinity remaining impassible; and was buried, and rose again, and ascended into the heavens, he sat at the right hand of God the Father. From there he is coming again to judge the living and the dead. At his coming all men who have slept from eternity will rise again, to give an account of their own actions. And those who have done good things will go at his command into eternal life; but those who have done evil things will go into eternal punishment. This, therefore, is the orthodox faith, which whoever does not keep blameless, cannot be saved.

πρόσληψιν, τελείαν οὐσίαν ἀνθρωπίνην ἐνυπόστατον αὐτῷ καὶ ἀδιαίρετον ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἁμαρτίας ἀμέ 28.1592 θεκτον· ἐκ τῶν παρθενικῶν ἁγνῶν αἱμάτων τῆς Θεομήτορος συμπαγέντος τοῦ σώματος, χωρίς τινος θελήματος ἢ ἐννοήματος σαρκικοῦ· τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς ἀΰλως κτισθείσης, νοερᾶς, λογικῆς, θελητικῆς, ἐνεργητικῆς, ὅλης τεθεαμένης σὺν τῇ σαρκὶ, ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀρχῆς, ἐκ πρώτης ὑπάρξεως, διὰ τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν Θεὸν Λόγον ἄκραν ἕνωσιν, ἀσύγχυτον καθ' ὑπόστασιν. Ἴσος οὖν ἐστι τῷ Πατρὶ κατὰ τὴν θεότητα, ἐλάττων δὲ τοῦ Πατρὸς κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα. Καὶ ὄντως ἀληθινὸς ὑπάρχει Θεὸς καὶ ἄνθρωπος· ὅμως οὐ δύο, ἀλλ' εἷς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός· εἷς δὲ οὐ τραπεῖσα ἡ σὰρξ, ἀλλὰ ἀναληφθεῖσα εἰς τὸν Θεόν· εἷς ὁλικῶς οὐ συγχύσει οὐσιῶν, ἀλλ' ἑνώσει τὸ καθ' ὑπόστασιν. Καὶ γὰρ ὥσπερ ψυχὴ λογικὴ καὶ σὰρξ εἷς ὑπάρχει ἄνθρωπος, οὕτω καὶ Θεὸς καὶ ἄνθρωπος εἷς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός. Ὃς ἔπαθε τῇ σαρκὶ διὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν, ἀπαθοῦς τῆς θεότητος μενούσης· καὶ ταφεὶς, καὶ ἀναστὰς, καὶ ἀναληφθεὶς εἰς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, ἐκάθισεν ἐκ δεξιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρός. Ἐκεῖθεν δὲ πάλιν ἐρχόμενος κρινεῖ ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς. Οὗ τῇ παρουσίᾳ πάντες οἱ ἀπ' αἰῶνος κεκοιμημένοι ἄνθρωποι ἀναστήσονται, λόγον ἀποδοῦναι περὶ τῶν πράξεων αὐτῶν. Καὶ οἱ μὲν τὰ ἀγαθὰ πράξαντες, πορεύσονται τῷ κελεύσματι αὐτοῦ εἰς αἰώνιον ζωήν· οἱ δὲ τὰ φαῦλα πράξαντες, πορεύσονται εἰς αἰωνίους κολάσεις. Αὕτη τοίνυν ἐστὶν ἡ ὀρθόδοξος πίστις, ἣν ὁ μὴ τηρήσας ἀμώμητον, σωθῆναι οὐ δύναται.