ABSTRACT
It is the origin of the laws of ours, people of Gulathing – which is the origin of all good things – that we shall have and keep the Christian faith. We shall believe in God the Father, the almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. We shall believe in Our Lord Jesus Christ, his only son, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit’s power, and born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under the authority of Pontius Pilate, crucified, killed and buried; descended to Hell and set all his friends free from there. On the third day after he was killed in his human form, unscathed in his divinity, he rose from the dead, and was then with his apostles for forty days from Easter Day and to Ascension Day, and then ascended into Heaven, and from there he will judge each person on their merit on the last day of this world. We shall believe in the Holy Spirit, that he is the true God, as Father and Son, and those three entities are one God. We shall believe everything that Christendom and the communion of saints believe, and the Holy Church has previously agreed on with unswerving steadfastness. We shall believe that sins are forgiven with baptism and repentance and confession; with the flesh and blood of Our Lord, who is consecrated in the mass; with prayer; with charity and with fasting, and with all good things that people do, think and say. We shall believe that each person’s body that is come into the world, or may come until Judgement Day, will then rise up. And from then on, those who did evil and did not repent with atonement in this world will have never-ending sorrow with the Devil and his representatives in Hell. But those who have done good in this world will then receive and retain eternal joy with God and his holy saints in Heaven.
