The Nicene Creed is true, but it doesn’t contain the gospel. The gospel answers two very important questions that the Nicene Creed dodges to make room for false Christianity from Rome and eastern orthodoxy. Question 1) Why did Jesus die? Question 2) What did His crucifixion and resurrection accomplish, if anything? God’s word answers both questions throughout, perhaps most succinctly in 1 Cor 15:1-4, which is also the Bible’s definition of what is the gospel. Nicene Creed merely asserts the historical facts of Christ being crucified and rising from the dead. It doesn’t even mention the gospel by which men can be saved, though.

It contains enough truth to keep false religions like “Jehovah’s witnesses,” mormons, and muslims from being joined together with Christians, but it is insufficient to draw the line of distinction where it needs to be drawn, which is between biblical teaching that leads people to be born again and receive eternal life, and vatican or eastern ortho doctrines of men that leave followers to die in their sins.