The Apostles' Creed and the Meaning of Life

Once, there was an old priest who every day would take time to go to the monastery chapel to say his prayers. Now, a cat lived in the monastery, and this cat would always go and interrupt the priest's prayers. So daily, the priest would tie the cat up (how he did this, we can't really be sure) and go into the chapel to pray, then untie the cat when he was done. His disciples would see this, and so, when the old priest died, they would repeat this practice before their prayer times. Then, when the cat also died, the disciples went and got a new cat to tie up before their prayers. It's easy, as this story demonstrates, to get caught up in repeating some action or some words from the past without knowing exactly knowing what those actions or words mean. Well, the same may apply to the Apostles' Creed in general, but will in all likelihood apply particularly to the line that talks about belief in Jesus as "God's only Son" and as "our Lord." There...