My Creed!

By Gary L. Clendenon (c) Sept. 2010 (Updated: 2022)

After 60 years of studying all the religions and philosophies in the world, this is my personal conclusion:

Believe whatever you will, but there is only one set of beliefs in the world that I know of that contain the story of a creator god who loved the people he created so much that He--the Infinite, Perfect, Uncontainable One--stooped so low as to become one of them--enduring every hardship of humanity from birth to adulthood--just to show them how to live and love as He intended.

And then, in the most astonishing plot development that any "God" story or set of beliefs in this world contain, He willing rescues them from certain death--even those who hated Him--by convincing the Judge to let Him take their death sentence and die in their place!  Not a quick-acting death by injection or electric chair, but the most gruesome, tortuous death possible: crucifixion on a cross!

Astonishing?  Incomprehensible?  Ridiculous?  Yes!  Yes!  And Yes!  But what a story!  A God who leaves no stone unturned to show His love for me in "The Greatest Love Story of All Time!"  I, the recipient of its telling!  All that for me!  I have been pulled in, wooed, enchanted--seduced by the enormity of such Love.  And such a Lover!!

True or not, myth or fact, it's THE story I find worth believing; for in all my life, I have heard no better, no greater, no more outrageous story of love than this!  No other story so captures my heart, my imagination, my mind!  My soul resonates and responds with inexpressible feelings of excitement, joy and love.

I fall . . .

Madly in love with THIS god, the GODhead Trinity, who go by the names of:

YEHOVAH the Father, Jesus the Messiah, and the All-powerful Spirit of GOD.