re major views of the trinity and filioque in article may geneva rutgers edu steve hayes f n z fidonet org writes may d andrew byler writes to all on the athanasian creed do you have any evidence that it is used by the orthodox churches as far as i know it is purely western like the apostles creed the orthodox churches use the symbol of faith commonly called the nicene creed i have seen it used in an orthodox church once although i can t recall why i found it odd to say the least also i object to the statement that the orthodox delete the filioque from the original form of the creed the creed originally did not contain that phrase and it is not present in the greek original which hangs by my desk not intending to start a flame war we didn t need to delete what wasn t there larry overacker llo shell com lawrence overacker shell oil company information center houston tx llo shell com
