As a Christian, I believe that Scripture is God-breathed and provides the definitive and supreme articulation of truth. Beside it, all man-made statements of faith pale in comparison. Yet I have a great respect for those confessions and creeds that God has led the Church to craft as synopses of Christian truth. As such, I agree with the 38th article of the 1678 Baptist "Orthodox Creed" when it says:
The Three Creeds, (viz.) Nicene Creed, Athanasius his Creed, and the Apostles Creed, (as they are commonly called) ought throughly to be received, and believed. For we believe they may be proved by most undoubted Authority of holy Scripture, and are necessary to be understood of all Christians; and to be instructed in the knowledg of them, by the Ministers of Christ, according to the Analogie of Faith, recorded in sacred Scriptures (upon which these Creeds are grounded), and Catechistically opened, and expounded in all Christian Families, for the edification of Young and Old; which might be a means to prevent Heresie in Doctrine, and Practice, these Creeds containing all things in a brief manner, that are necessary to be known, fundamentally, in order to our Salvation; to which end they may be considered, and better understood of all Men…
Furthermore, as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dawson, GA, I also give assent to The Baptist Faith and Message.
I would encourage the reader to consult these documents as overall accurate expressions of my own convictions, though all are placed beneath and ought to be judged by Holy Scripture.