THE APOSTLES CREED (Accepted by virtually all Protestants and Catholics, not even conflicting with Jehovah's Witness doctrine!) Although some churches require members to believe a certain "creed," that is a set group of beliefs, many in the United States in particular no longer do so.  The non-creedal Churches accept as members and baptize those who sincerely believe and show they believe that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior.  However, some are still creedal, and there are three main creeds.  So most creedal churches use and require belief in one of those creeds. The earliest of the three main creeds or statements of beliefs is the Apostles’ Creed that unites the one Christian faith more than any other creed because possibly 95% of all Christian groups agree on what it says.  Some believe that the early Christians who had known and been baptized by apostles got together and wrote the Apostles Creed sooner or later after the death of the last apostle, John, putting into it the basics that they had needed to believe for becoming baptized as a Christian.  In any case, the Apostles' Creed is clearly the simplest of the three main creeds, and as said almost all Protestant churches as well as the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Church are united in believing it.  Even readers who are "non-trinitarian" almost always find it is also acceptable if they take a minute to read it.  In the original older English it states: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.  And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* Church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.” * The word “catholic” here means universal and is not in the sense of the Roman Catholic Church.   Put into modern English the Apostles' Creed can be rendered as: I believe in God Almighty the Father, maker of heaven and earth.  And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.  He descended into the grave but the third day rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits upon the right hand of God Almighty the Father.  From there He will come to judge the living and the dead.  I  believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church; the saints' fellowship in Christ, the forgiveness of sins; resurrection of the body, and eternal life.  Amen. So, those high control groups or cults that claim Christianity is nothing but "divided" are misteaching and misleading many, for in fact the Apostle's Creed has helped succeed in providing overall unity of doctrine for most throughout some 2,000 years up to this very second.