Someone asked me the other day why the Creeds of our faith were so important. My first response was that they helped us to profess what we believe in, but as I thought about it I realized that they were much more than that.
The Creeds of the Catholic faith serves many purposes when stated publicly or privately. One of its purposes is, as previously stated,to be a profession of faith. This means that the Creed is a declaration of what the person who recants the Creed believes in. This is seen by the construct of the sentences in the Creed. Most statements in the Creed begin with I/We believe. This functions in a way that allows the faithful to publicly or privately declare what it is that they have faith in, or allows them to profess their faith and outline the major components of that faith.
