# Do you know the Apostle's Creed from memory?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-apostles-creed-from-memory/825649 "2018-12-06T02:35:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-apostles-creed-from-memory/825649/141 "2018-12-13T02:37:18Z")

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No, but if you hum a few bars, I’ll come in on the chorus.

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-apostles-creed-from-memory/825649/142 "2018-12-13T03:14:11Z")

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> [@EscAlaMike](#):
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> You are expressing a Protestant view of prayer. Prayer has a much wider definition in the Catholic faith.
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> In the Catholic faith, the Creed most certainly is a prayer _in addition_ to being a declaration of faith.

That’s interesting because I’ve never thought of it that way. I’ve always thought of it more as a reaffirmation of our baptisms. That’s why it’s separate from the Prayers of the People. I’m Episcopalian, though.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-apostles-creed-from-memory/825649/143 "2018-12-13T03:23:03Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> The Holy Spirit doesn’t make any sense to a Jew either.

[This Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_in_Judaism) suggests otherwise. It uses the term I remember learning, the _ruaḥ hakodesh_, and can refer to the _Shekhinah_, or glory of God that dwells among the Israelites.

Granted, it’s not remotely similar to a trinitarian belief, assuming the Holy Spirit is God. It’s just his presence and glory, or just the spirit of religious inspiration.

And to **senoy** : her exact words were “you don’t really believe that supernatural stuff, do you?” So that’s why I’m not sure. It seems to me that heaven is a supernatural thing. However, all I can find on the [Progressive Christianity website](https://progressivechristianity.org/the-8-points/) is that they believe that much of the Bible are non-literal stories that hold spiritual truth. That’s not too unusual.

That’s why I said I was unsure, not that she definitely didn’t believe. I could ask her, but it just feels weird to bring that up out of nowhere when we don’t really talk much–just share social justice and anti-Trump Facebook posts.

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