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ARTICLE 2


_And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord_

SECTION 1.--AND IN JESUS CHRIST


The first article of the Apostles' Creed has numerous adherents. Jews
and Christians are at one in affirming their belief in God the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. Many too who, unlike Jews and
Christians, have not been favoured with a written revelation, have yet
risen to the conception of such a Divine Being as that article sets
forth. Mohammedans believe in an Omnipotent Creator, and many thoughtful
heathens have accepted and maintained the doctrine as an article of
faith. It expresses a conviction reached by Plato and Aristotle, by
Seneca and Epictetus, and is a truth proclaimed by Old Testament
prophets and New Testament saints. No belief regarding things invisible
is more generally professed.

It is otherwise with the second article of the Creed, "I believe in
Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord," which expresses doctrines so hotly
disputed that they prove the saying true, "This child is set for a sign
which shall be spoken against."[029] It is rejected by the Jew and the
Mohammedan, and finds opponents in many who profess to accept the