Explaining my Beliefs

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Jesus Christ was "eternally begotten of the Father." Jesus existed at the beginning of time. He was always there. We never understood or knew Him until 2000 years ago. We don't know why he chose to come to this earth for our salvation 2000 years ago either. We don't know why he chose that time to come, but someday, I hope God will share with us his divine mysteries.
Jesus is GOD. He is one with the Father. To quote St. Jean d' Arc, "His ways are not our ways." God is a being that cannot be described by merely "physical" nor merely "a spirit" God is beyond anything we can picture...He is not of this dimention. And God decended upon this Earth to save us...yet, he sent his Son. Because Jesus was the son of God and Mary. Jesus was both Man and God. There are many reasons that God sent his son. I always liked to speculate that God decided that He Himself needed to experience how hard it is to be a human in this universe that he created. So Jesus came. And Jesus knows.
Jesus knows what it is to be alone. He chose a path that no one would understand until he had done it. He traveled at first alone, and gradually made 12 very close best friends. And when He needed them most, they abandoned him. His best friend Peter denied even knowing him. His other good friend, Judas, betrayed him and handed him over to the priests who would later crucify him.
Jesus knows hard work. To be a preacher in a time that there was no transportation meant traveling alot on foot, and relying on the kindness of strangers for shelter. He experienced hunger, depression, mortal fear, alot of humiliation, and pain: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and then, he experienced the burden of everyone's sin. Literally everyone, everyone who ever lived in the past, present and future.
Jesus' last great commandment to his people was to "Love one another as I have loved you."
He loved us so feircely that he left Heaven to see us. To save us.
He lived a very difficult life to teach us.
He cured the sick, fed the hungry, and yes, even raised the dead.
He fasted and prayed for us for forty days in the desert.
He faced down Satan himself, and was not tempted.
He loved us so much that he rode into Jeruselem and proclaimed himself the Christ.
He suffered humiliation for telling the Truth.
He looked on everyone he met with love, especially those who are sinners.
He suffered horribly under Pontius Pilate.
He carried his own cross through Jerusalem while people spat at him, gaurds whipped him, and everyone mocked him.
He was nailed naked on a cross in front of everybody...an inhumane sentence for the sins and crimes he didn't commit.
After he died, he decended into Gehenna, or Hell to take those who would follow him out of Hell.
He opened the gates of Heaven, so we might enter.

Would you be willing to do that if you had to, to save someone you love?

My Beliefs, Nicene/Apostles' Creed Combined

I believe in one God, the Father
the Almighty creator of Heaven and earth
of all that is seen and unseen

And in our Lord, Jesus Christ, the only son of God
Eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light
True God from True God
He was Begotten, not made.
One in being with the Father,
Through him all things were made.
For us and that we could be saved, he came down from heaven
By the power of the Holy Spirit,
He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man
For our sake he was scourged under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered, died and was buried.
He decended into Gehenna.
On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures
He ascended into Heaven
He is seated at the right hand of the Father
He will come again to judge the living and the dead,
And his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in one Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son
With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one Holy and Catholic Church,
The communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come