What is known among Christians as the "Apostles Creed," was not written by the Apostles of our Lord; therefore, it is not in the Bible. As to its origin, we quote from Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, a recognized authority by scholars, as follows: "There is indeed extent, a brief summary of Christian doctrines, which is called the Apostles' Creed; and which, from the fourth century onward was attributed to Christ's ambassadors themselves. But at this day, all who have any knowledge of antiquity, confess unanimously that this opinion is a mistake, and has no foundation. Those judge far more wisely and rationally who think that this creed arose from small beginnings, and was gradually enlarged as occasions required in order to exclude new errors from the church."
The creed, entitled Symbolum Apostolicum (the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles), is found for the first time in a letter probably written by Ambrose from the Council in Milan, to Pope Siricius about AD 390.
The writers probably believed it contained only truths taught by the Apostles. It does contain some truths, but it is not wholly Scriptural. For instance: "I believe in the resurrection of the body," whereas nothing in the Bible teaches that our bodies are to be resurrected. The Bible teaches that the soul will be resurrected. The Apostle Paul says, "you do not sow that body that shall be…God gives it (the soul-being) a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body." Surely the Apostle was not speaking of the body when he uses the word "it," otherwise the body would have a body, therefore two bodies. It doesn't make sense. Further, he states, "It (the soul-being) is sown a natural body; it (the soul or being) is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." (1 Corinthians 15:35,37,44).
