The help in the dialogue between God and man can be the use of certain prayers, canonically accepted by the entirety of the Orthodox Church. Some basic prayers can also be considered historical testimonies by the Church of their creed. One such prayer is the article of faith.
It is customary to call the Christian Orthodox confession of the fundamentals of a creed concluded in a particular prayer or act a creed. Most often in everyday life of a simple Christian, the Nicene-Tsaregradsky symbol is called the Creed. This is the main statement of the foundations of Orthodox dogma, adopted at two Ecumenical Councils (first and second).
The Nicene-Tsaregradsky creed includes 12 verses that define the main dogmatic views of the Christian. At the 325th Ecumenical Council, the first seven members of the creed were identified, which included the belief in the existence of God the Father as the Creator of the whole visible and invisible world, as well as the testimony of Christ. They say that Christ is in the full sense of God, born of the Father before the existence of the world. They are indicated at the time of Christ's coming into the world for the salvation of people, as well as his crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection and ascension to heaven. Historically, the holy fathers confined themselves to this at the Council in Nicaea in 325, since the main purpose of convening the Council was to prove the deity of Christ.
In 381, at the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, five more verses were written about the Deity of the Holy Spirit, about the church, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal future life.
Thus, in 381 there is a document of confession called the Nicene-Tsaregradsky creed. In modern everyday life it is simply referred to as the “Creed”. Now it is an obligatory prayer in the list of morning prayer rules, and is also sung by believers during the Divine Liturgy.
