CCC# 186 โ€ฆ.faithโ€ฆ.

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The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower;
all who come to him will live for ever.
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The Profession of Faith โ€บ Section Two of Part One: The Profession of the Christian Faith: The Creeds

CCC 186 From the beginning, the apostolic Church expressed and handed on her faith in brief formula normative for all.1 But already very early on, the Church also wanted to gather the essential elements of her faith into organic and articulated summaries, intended especially for candidates for Baptism:

๐Ÿ‘‰This synthesis of faith was not made to accord with human opinions, but rather what was of the greatest importance was gathered from all the Scriptures, to present the one teaching of the faith in its entirety. And just as the mustard seed contains a great number of branches in a tiny grain, so too this summary of faith encompassed in a few words the whole knowledge of the true religion contained in the Old and the New Testaments.2๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ™๐ŸคŸ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

1 Cf. Rom 10:9; I Cor 15:3-5, etc.
2 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. illum. 5, 12: PG 33, 521-524.