Christian Huff

I think all these are helpful.

And I think we can take them, but they're not scripture.

One of the things that I thought was interesting, too, in the early church –

I don't know if you guys picked up on the whole concept of apostolic secession.

That was interesting as well to see how that – because I've had lots of conversations on that recently with different people from different traditions, whether it be Eastern Orthodox or Catholic or even what's called the New Apostolic Reformation.

So there's a lot of thought around apostolic secession, which is basically that the authority the apostles had –

that they laid hands on people and then they transferred that authority.

And so that authority, you know, where does that end and how does that work and all that?

That was, you know, that's certainly debatable.

I think in the early church, though, you clearly do see in Scripture that at least from the apostles in that second generation that you do see an apostolic succession.

Beyond that, I mean, I don't know.

I don't know if you guys have thoughts on that.

Yeah, I mean, I may not call it a creed, technically.

I mean, I think it's Scripture, right?

And so...

The creeds would have—technically, the creeds would have came after.

It is kind of a teaching, though.

It's a teaching method, particularly that thing that was an oral tradition that was passed down that made it into the canon.

But the actual creeds themselves would have been non-inspired.

If you hold the position I hold, they're not inspired in the way that Scripture is inspired.