What is the new version of the apostles creed?

Answer 1

There could hardly be a 'new version' of the apostles creed. Either the apostles wrote the creed; or they did not. If they wrote it, there should not be a 'new version' of it; and it still be called the 'apostles' creed. If they did not write it, then it should not be called : the 'apostle's' creed; it would simply be 'a creed'.

Professor G. C. Stead wrote in The ExpositoryTimes: "Anyone who has read at all extensively in early Christian literature is bound to come to a different conclusion." He argued that if there was in existence a creed formally designed and approved by the apostles, it would be difficult to explain why there were so many different 'confessions' and 'statements of faith' in existence among the early churches. The fact is that "a statement of Christian belief which approximately agrees in wording with the Apostles' Creed cannot be found in any surviving writing earlier than A.D. 340."

Avery Dulles of the Catholic University of America: "probably no period in history has seen such a burgeoning of new credal formulas as our own." Today, among the churches of Christendom, "there are over 150 officially recognized creeds and confessions," says the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Answer 2

The New Apostle's Creed

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. And one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.