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No, it is not possible to have "no creed but Christ; no book but the Bible," because
for one thing, that claim in itself is a creed! A creed that pretends to reject
all others. But to do so is to dismiss the foundation on which God's kingdom is built,
the Church, the "pillar and ground of the truth (1st Timothy 3:15)."

Paul, in his letters to Timothy, makes reference to "faithful sayings, worthy of acceptance" (1st Timothy 3:1, 4:9) "sound doctrine," and "received traditions" which he urges us to hold onto and preserve. Those faithful sayings were the earliest creeds! A creed is simply a summary statement of doctrine - a way of summing up doctrines in smaller and simpler terms, especially useful in training children and new converts in what the Christian religion teaches.

One who rejects the universally accepted creeds of the historic Christian faith is in danger, in fact, of departing entirely from "the faith once delivered."

-Robin