Paul Morris asks if our Christian creeds do a good job in reflecting our Jewish roots
It is an alarming but true thought that many churches have a statement of faith which ignores the Old Testament.
To which bold assertion you may well respond: ‘No, I am sure that somewhere in ours we have something about the Bible consisting of the Old and New Testaments.’ No doubt, yet for many shorter creeds that is where it ends and they fail to draw attention to the Old Testament context of what is revealed in the New. Without the Old Testament, what sense could we make of the first sentence of the New Testament: ‘The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham’? Somehow, that context ought to be expressed in our creeds.
