You are barking up completely the wrong tree Welsh Cake. Yes of course there are divisions within the Christian church. Yes some churches don't USE the Creeds as part of ceremony for the reasons you state... but they do acknowledge their centrality to their belief stance, and ALL Christians will acknowledge adherence to the Nicene Creed. It's what unites us, and you have yet to provide one spec of evidence to the contrary. I'm not making this up.. I'm repeating to you what the community of Christian Churches have said.
The Apocrypha is accepted by the Catholic church alone I think. This is their denominational bias, which still fits in with the Nicene Creed. I don't happen to accept it, but I am together with them in our Christian faith.
There's nothing NTS at all about any of it. The definition is extremely clear cut. Just like with humans and monkeys. JW's call themselves Christians, but then define Christianity differently to every other denomination. One of the reasons for the Nicene creed being created were the various cults which arose with spurious interpretations of Christianity, which prompted the universal church at the time to clarify what exactly constituted Christianity. Hence the definition, which still holds true today, as affirmed by every Christian Church.
A secular dictionary might encompass JW and Mormon flavour Christianity, where Jesus isn't actually God, in its definition of Christianity. And it would be correct in it's completeness. However... if you want a strict definition of the world faith of Christianity, then you need to be more accurate.
The Apocrypha is accepted by the Catholic church alone I think. This is their denominational bias, which still fits in with the Nicene Creed. I don't happen to accept it, but I am together with them in our Christian faith.
There's nothing NTS at all about any of it. The definition is extremely clear cut. Just like with humans and monkeys. JW's call themselves Christians, but then define Christianity differently to every other denomination. One of the reasons for the Nicene creed being created were the various cults which arose with spurious interpretations of Christianity, which prompted the universal church at the time to clarify what exactly constituted Christianity. Hence the definition, which still holds true today, as affirmed by every Christian Church.
A secular dictionary might encompass JW and Mormon flavour Christianity, where Jesus isn't actually God, in its definition of Christianity. And it would be correct in it's completeness. However... if you want a strict definition of the world faith of Christianity, then you need to be more accurate.
