I think that the creeds (Nicene and Apostolic) are some of the most elegant wordings of the faith that I have yet seen. They line up very well with what I believe, and just about every time I say them, I think I find another nuance in the wording that gets me thinking about a new angle on God I hadn’t considered before.

That said, I don’t know that I really care about a lot of it. Does it really matter if all of the literal details of Jesus’ life are literally correct? I mean, on the simplest level, we have four different accounts of his life that differ on some of the little details. That surely does not keep anyone on this forum from beliving in him (it doesn’t keep me from it anyway). But, I think that the model Jesus provides for human living is so strong and compelling, his teachings are so beautiful and intuitively in line with the way I view the world, and the story is so wonderful, that I just don’t care if it “really” happened. Somebody could have made it all up, and someone could conclusively prove that to me tomorow, but I just don’t think I would care. Even if it didn’t literally happen, for me the ideas and morals are just so spot on, that I think I would continue to try to live by them, study them, and understand them anyway.

Do we even need to have correct beliefs to believe?