2. Creation – Commentary on The Nicene Creed

Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

This seems straightforward. God created the universe. But visible and invisible may have been included to make sure we understand that God created the spiritual realm.

The Gnostics

This was added to the creed to contradict many Gnostic groups who thought that the Demiurge created the universe. This was borrowed from Greek philosophy. This is the idea that some being other than the pure God created the universe.

The Logos was God

Early Christians held that God created the universe through the Logos, which is a title attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John (John 1:1-3, 14). But to Christians, Jesus is God and therefore God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1).

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Jay N. Forrest

Dr. Jay N Forrest is a Spiritual Teacher of the Anglican Middle Way, writing on Prayer, Meditation, and Mysticism. Jay became a Christian in 1983, attended Bible school, and eventually earned his Doctorate in Ministry. Jay served as a Protestant minister for 27 years, took catechism classes with the Orthodox Church of America, and spent about a decade practicing Buddhism. In 2005, Jay was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church, but has since joined the Episcopal Church.

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