In Three Parts

Q. How are these articles (of the Creed) divided?

A. Into three parts:

God the Father and our creation;
God the Son and our deliverance;
and God the Holy Spirit and our sanctification.

Does something about this seem off to you? Does this mean that the Father was the only one involved in creation? That the Son was the only one involved in our redemption? And that the Holy Spirit is the only one involved in our sanctification?

That would lead to some very bad and wrong ideas about God as he has shown himself to us in His Word.

If it is true then that “The LORD our God, the LORD is one”, then why would be separate his work like this? Or why would Paul leave the Spirit out, “there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.“

The Apostles Creed is not attempting to separate the “three persons“ of God or to make their would strictly unique from one another. However we do see all three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, saving God’s people and (re)creating the world in roles that they seem to have agreed upon long before redemption was even on the radar of Adam and Eve.

The Creed does an excellent job of summarising who God is and how he has saved us. With making such quick work of our Redemption these ways of dividing the truth of our faith is really quite good and nothing that I could written on my own.

Q. Since there is only one divine being,
why do you speak of three:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

A. Because that is how God has revealed himself in his Word:
these three distinct persons
are one, true, eternal God.