THE CREED

The Apostles' Creed

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Latest Videos on YouTube. The greatest illusion from such an assassination was that the Assassin seemingly materialized from nowhere, killed a corrupt public figure, and vanished into the depths of the crowd or environment. If an Assassin was spotted while stalking their target, the supernatural effect would be diluted, and it became more difficult for the Assassin to reach his target. Though seemingly hypocritical, the ironies did not undermine the Assassins' cause.

Rather, they demonstrated the way in which they embraced contradiction, "that one may be two things — opposite in every way — simultaneously. Ezio Auditore da Firenze once spoke of the maxim at length with Sofia Sartor , who found it rather cynical.

However, he told her that the maxim was not a doctrine to be followed, but merely an observation of the world. In detail, he explained that "To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.

This maxim was spoken by all Assassins present at every new Assassin's induction into the Order , and in its original Arabic by Ezio as he presided over each ceremony. On most occasions, the breaking of one or more of the tenets of the Creed led to the execution of the involved Assassin, though there have been exceptions.

During Saladin's siege of Masyaf, Ahmad Sofian was captured and interrogated by the Saracens about the identity of the Assassin who infiltrated the camp. Ahmad broke and gave the name of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad. This resulted in him breaking the third tenet of the Creed, as Umar was executed for this, and though he was spared Ahmad could not bear the shame and guilt and took his own life. Umar himself also technically broke the first and third tenets as well by killing a Saracen nobleman, who was not his target and which resulted in the Saracens electing to continue the siege unless he surrendered himself, which would have resulted in many Assassin deaths.

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Umar elected to give himself up for execution to save his fellow Assassins. However, the execution was only an illusion, as Al Mualim wished to grant him a second chance. Though he was successful, a team of Assassins later tracked Perotto down, and executed him as punishment. While in the Ottoman Empire during the early 16th century, one of Ezio's apprentices broke the first tenet after mistaking a cleric for the Templar Cyril of Rhodes and rashly assassinating him.

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Instead of punishing him, Ezio ordered him to reflect on his mistake and gave him the chance to redeem himself when they confronted Cyril again. During this time, an Assassin of Jerusalem broke the Creed, and the Ottoman Assassins were asked to intervene. Despite his treachery, the other Assassins of his guild asked that he be executed covertly with a crossbow. In , the French Assassin Council expelled Arno Dorian from the Brotherhood for repeatedly assassinating targets without consulting them.

Several creeds have originated in Christianity.

Protestant denominations are usually associated with confessions of faith, which are similar to creeds but usually longer. Some Christian denominations, and particularly those descending from the Radical Reformation , do not profess a creed.

This stance is often referred to as "non-creedalism". The Religious Society of Friends , also known as the Quakers, consider that they have no need for creedal formulations of faith. The Church of the Brethren and other Schwarzenau Brethren churches also espouses no creed, referring to the New Testament, as their "rule of faith and practice.

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Many evangelical Protestants similarly reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even while agreeing with some creeds' substance. The Baptists have been non-creedal "in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another". At best, creeds have a penultimacy about them and, of themselves, could never be the basis of Christian fellowship".

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Also we confess that we now know but in part and that are ignorant of many things which we desire to and seek to know: Similar reservations about the use of creeds can be found in the Restoration Movement and its descendants, the Christian Church Disciples of Christ , the Churches of Christ , and the Christian churches and churches of Christ. Restorationists profess "no creed but Christ". Bishop John Shelby Spong , retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, has written that dogmas and creeds were merely "a stage in our development" and "part of our religious childhood. Many people said the Apostles Creed , but they understood what it was saying and what they meant by that quite differently.

No matter how hard they tried, they could not close out this perennial debate. They cannot establish a consensus and they could not agree on the meaning of that phrase which had been once "delivered to the saints.

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Nor did they understand that the tighter and more specific their words became, the less they would achieve the task of unifying the church. All creeds have ever done is to define those who are outside, who were not true believers; and thus their primarily achievement has been to set up eternal conflict between the "ins" and the "outs," a conflict that has repeatedly degenerated into the darkest sort of Christian behavior, including imperialism, torture, persecution, death and war.

In the Swiss Reformed Churches , there was a quarrel about the Apostles' Creed in the midth century. As a result, most cantonal reformed churches stopped prescribing any particular creed. Whether Judaism is creedal in character has generated some controversy. Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that "By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought" and asserted in his book Basic Judaism that "Judaism has never arrived at a creed. A notable statement of Jewish principles of faith was drawn up by Maimonides as his 13 Principles of Faith.

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