Editing Nicene Creed (section)

=== Views on the importance of this creed ===
Nearly all Christian denominations, including Catholic, Orthodox, and most Protestant churches (e.g. Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and major Baptist groups), regard the Nicene Creed as a foundational and authoritative statement of faith. Thus approximately 98.5%<ref>{{Cite web
 | title = Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population
 | publisher = Pew Research Center
 | date = 2011-12-19
 | url = https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/
 | access-date = 2025-04-24
}}</ref> of the world’s Christians are Nicene Christians, adhering to the Nicene Creed’s Trinitarian and Christological doctrines. The remaining 1.5% include non-Trinitarian groups such as the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS Church]], [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]], [[Swedenborgians]], etc. (see below).

As mentioned above, there are a minority of evangelical and non-denominational groups, such as some independent [[Churches of Christ]], certain [[neo-charismatic]] congregations, or some fundamentalist Baptist churches, who view the Nicene Creed as a helpful summary of biblical truth but not infallible, emphasizing that [[Sola scriptura|only scripture is ultimately authoritative]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kehn |first1=N. R. |title=Restoring the Restoration Movement: A look under the Hood at the Doctrines that Divide |date=2009 |publisher=Xulon Press |location=LaVergne, TN |isbn=978-1-60791-358-0 |chapter=Sola Scriptura |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MNUIyB37jgC&pg=PA103 |access-date=30 July 2021 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114000831/https://books.google.com/books?id=6MNUIyB37jgC&pg=PA103 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Credo Meditations on Thenicene Creed |publisher=Chalice Press |isbn=978-0-8272-0592-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFaqzAHPg1cC |access-date=30 July 2021 |pages=xiv–xv |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114000831/https://books.google.com/books?id=kFaqzAHPg1cC |url-status=live }}</ref> Furthermore, certain [[non-Trinitarian]] groups explicitly reject the Nicene Creed’s Trinitarian doctrines: examples include the [[Church of the New Jerusalem]], [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], and [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]], whose theologies are incompatible with the Creed’s teachings on the Trinity and Christ’s divinity. <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vlmXBe0RPxYC&pg=PA4 Timothy Larsen, Daniel J. Treier, ''The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108062045/https://books.google.com/books?id=vlmXBe0RPxYC&pg=PA4 |date=8 January 2023 }} (Cambridge University Press 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-521-84698-1}}, p. 4</ref><ref>Oaks, Dallin H. (May 1995). [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1995/05/apostasy-and-restoration?lang=eng Apostasy And Restoration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922153901/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1995/05/apostasy-and-restoration?lang=eng |date=22 September 2020 }}. ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]''. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0GuWbJhYIccC&pg=PA48 Stephen Hunt, ''Alternative Religions'' (Ashgate 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108062053/https://books.google.com/books?id=0GuWbJhYIccC&pg=PA48 |date=8 January 2023 }} {{ISBN|978-0-7546-3410-2}}), p. 48</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2OZ40dLil9wC&pg=PA133 Charles Simpson, ''Inside the Churches of Christ'' (Arthurhouse 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108062055/https://books.google.com/books?id=2OZ40dLil9wC&pg=PA133 |date=8 January 2023 }} {{ISBN|978-1-4389-0140-4}}), p. 133</ref>

The view that the Nicene Creed can serve as a touchstone of true Christian faith is reflected in the name "symbol of faith", which was given to it in Greek and Latin, when in those languages the word "symbol" meant a "token for identification (by comparison with a counterpart)".<ref>See etymology given in {{cite encyclopedia |url=https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=symbol |title=Symbol |dictionary=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |edition=Fifth |date=2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101141736/https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=symbol |archive-date=1 January 2020}}</ref> In the [[Roman Rite]] [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]], the Latin text of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, with {{lang|la|"Deum de Deo"}} (God from God) and {{lang|la|"[[Filioque]]"}} (and from the Son), phrases absent in the original text, was previously the only form used for the "profession of faith". The [[Roman Missal]] now refers to it jointly with the [[Apostles' Creed]] as "the Symbol or Profession of Faith or Creed", describing the second as "the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles' Creed".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/missalformation/OrdoMissaeWhiteBook.pdf|title=''Ordo Missae'', 18–19|website=Usccb.org|access-date=11 February 2009|archive-date=10 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810221840/http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/missalformation/OrdoMissaeWhiteBook.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>