Statement of Faith and the Twelve Anathemas

Those who say that the punishments of the Devil and the Demons and the impious—that is, of Gentiles, Jews, Samaritans, and all heretics (except Christians, who follow the right faith and are sinners)—are not perpetual, let them be anathema.

Those who say that any holy man, whether prophetic or apostolic, can be perfect without the help of God, let them be anathema.

Those who say that Christ the Son of God, God the Word, was changed into a man, in such a way that He ceased to be God the Word; or that He was a mere man born of Mary, according to Paul of Samosata and Photinus, and that by merit and virtues He advanced to the name of God, let them be anathema.

Those who say that what is written, "Of that day and hour neither the Angels know, nor the Son", is according to the blasphemies of the Arians, and not on account of the dispensation of the flesh assumed, let them be anathema.

Those who say that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that is, the Holy Trinity, are of a diverse substance among themselves, and not of one power and nature, let them be anathema.

Those who say, in whatever manner and in whatever sense, that the Son does not see the Father, let them be anathema.

Those who say that our souls fell from the rank of the Angels into these bodies on account of certain ancient sins, and that they do penance in this world, taking up those testimonies, "Before I was humbled I sinned", and "Bring my soul out of prison", and other things similar to these, let them be anathema.

Those who say that our Lord and Savior did not come in our nature, but was of a different and more sublime substance, namely a heavenly one, and did not take on the whole of what is from Mary, or did not have a human soul, or a mind without sin, let them be anathema.

Those who say that after many ages and times, which we cannot comprehend by human thought, a restitution of all things is made to their former state, and that all things return to their own beginnings, let them be anathema.

Those who say that after the resurrection we do not have the same bodies, but certain airy and spiritual ones, and not of the same nature as that in which we were laid in the tomb, though incorruptible and immortal, let them be anathema.

Those who say that after the end of the resurrection, and after many ages, bodies are abolished and return to their former state, so that we are only souls without bodies, as we formerly were, let them be anathema.

Those who say that souls existed before they were born, and that they are not made daily by God together with the body, after the example of the first man, let them be anathema.