FOX IS AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

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FOX IS AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN


Because of the “many scandalous lies and slanders that have been cast upon Friends, saying that we deny Christ Jesus which all of our books and declarations clearly testify to the contrary,”  Fox wrote a letter to the Governor of Barbados defending them.










When Friends talk about this letter today, they will say that it is the “closest thing that Quakers have to a creed” or that it is “sort of a creed.”  But the letter is the Nicene and Apostle’s creed in Fox’s own language. The language is scriptural but the creeds influences what he says.

We own and believe in





Jesus the beloved and begotten Son of God, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and  born of the Virgin Mary, and who is the express image of the invisible God by whom all things were created.





















































































































































He, who knew no sin, was crucified for us in the flesh, buried, rose again the third day by the power of His Father.

He ascended up into heaven and now sitteth on the right hand of God.

He is our wisdom and righteousness, our prophet.

He is the Quickening Spirit, the second Adam, the Lord from heaven.

He brings the oaths of God, the new covenant of light, life, grace and peace.

He alone is our Redeemer and Savior.

An orthodox Christian, Fox believes that Christ is God’s Son, the way to God, the Second Adam, who never fell, eternal life. 

He is the Light who has enlightened every man who has come into the world – Turks, Jews, Moors, Christians. 

He is the Life, the Word, who brings the glad tidings of salvation. 

Christ is the Mediator who makes peace; the Life that was with the Father before the world began. He is all virtue.

Christ bore the sins and iniquities of all mankind, and was an offering for the sins of the whole world so that we may have Life through Him. Christ did not die as he was God, but as he was man. 

He suffered in the flesh, died and was crucified as he was man, not as he was God.  For the Eternal God  was not crucified and died. For Christ, the man, said as he hung on the cross,”My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Fox’s phrase, “as he was man,” is entirely orthodox. He means that it was the human nature of Christ, not the divine nature, which was crucified and rose.  There is no suggestion that Christ is God at some times, but not at others.

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