Article 1 (cont’d) After confessing that the one true God is Maker of heaven and earth, the Nicene Creed adds the phrase “and of all things visible and invisible.” 

Article 2: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made. We have seen before that the first two articles of the Nicene Creed are based on I Corinthians 8:6.

Article 2 (continued)  In Article 2 of the Nicene Creed the early church confessed that Jesus Christ is “the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by Whom all things were made.” 

Article 2 (cont’d)