and the Son is worshipped and glorified; He spoke through the prophets. We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church; we acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins; we look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come. Amen.

They then laid down for themselves laws and statutes that are neither found in, nor indicated by, the books of the prophets. Some of those rulings do appear in the prophets’ books, yet their leading figures added other matters of their own invention that are absent from those books, and they altered much of what the prophets had prescribed. Accordingly, the body of regulations and ordinances the Christians hold as the law of their religion—some of it stemming from the disciples, but much of it fabricated by their elders in opposition to the prophets’ law—makes their religion akin to that of the Jews: they have interwoven truth with falsehood.

The Messiah, peace be upon him, was sent with the religion of God with which He had sent the prophets before him: worshipping God alone with no partner and forbidding the worship of anything else. He made lawful for them some of what God had prohibited in the Torah, thereby abrogating part of the Torah’s legislation.