Christian Huff

Then Saul has the radical encounter with Christ, the risen Christ on the road to Damascus.

Then he goes to meet with Mark, and I forgot who the other apostle was, for basically training.

And then during that training period, he received the oral tradition.

So when you hear that cadence, that Christ died, that he was buried, that he was raised, it almost has a cadence to it, right?

That was a tradition that was passed down orally

And it's hard for us to imagine that because we don't remember anything because we have everything on our iPhone.

And now that we have ChatGPT and Gronk and Plod, Clod, all the different bots, we don't remember anything.

But there was a time in history, particularly in Jewish culture, where they would remember these things word for word and then pass them down hundreds and thousands of years.

So Paul received from that oral tradition

The earliest creed in the gospel, which is that Christ died, he was buried, and he was raised on the third day.

So it is important.

Yeah, I mean, I think that where I land on this, and this is, I mean, look, we're open for a lot of diversity on this and diversity of thought.

I think where I land on it is that the creeds are very helpful.

I don't think they supplant the authority of Scripture.

Obviously, I'm a Protestant, so I believe in sola scriptura, that that's your final authority.

But I do think that the creeds are helpful.

I mean, even the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed.

I mean, all of these are helpful.

And then moving into the Reformation, then you have, like you mentioned, John, the greater and shorter catechisms, which are simplified versions of the Westminster Confession.

And then you've got the Heidelberg.