An Orthodox Creed

I highly recommend this blog.  I could spend all day reading it. The one I read yesterday sparked me:

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2008/02/orthodoxy-should-we-define-who-is-%e2%80%9cin%e2%80%9d-and-who-is-%e2%80%9cout%e2%80%9d/

The Bible has clear evidence that Christianity had a well-defined orthodoxy, and a developing creedal tradition, from the time of the apostles.

Pulling only the verses he quotes in his blog, I can sift out the following creedal elements.  As the author notes, it is a developing creed, not a fixed one.

The Christ is the son of the living God.
Christ died for our sins in accordance to the OT.
He was buried, and He was raised on the third day, in accordance with the OT.

Though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,
 even death on a cross.

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

If we die with Him, we will also live with Him;
If we endure, we will also reign with Him;
If we deny Him, He also will deny us;
If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.