# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S499
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YNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 499

y pastor, teacher, or congregation of our Synod must be re-
‘as hindering the earnest, patient, and God-pleasing endeavor
mod to establish fellowship with the American Lutheran
lurch on the basis of doctrinal agreement.

e Tae ComMirree on DocrrinaL UNITY

In THE LuTHERAN CHURCH oF AMERICA

. H.C. Frrrz, Chairman pro tem Pastor W. H. Jurcens
oF, W. A. BAEPLER Mr. JoHN WEGNER

TOR Gzo. J. MEYER Mr. H. W. Knopp
asToR F, H, Brunn, Secretary

W. Arnot, Chairman, is traveling in Palestine at the present time

Changes in the Doctrinal Affirmation

Submitted to, and Approved and Advocated by, the Committee on Doctrinal
. Unity Which will be Reported to the Synodical Convention in 1947

Of the Holy Scriptures

1. Paragraph 1 of the Brief Statement verbatim.
2. Paragraph 2 of the Brief Statement verbatim.
3. The writers of the separate books of the Bible were living, think-
ing personalities, each endowed by the Creator with an individuality
of his own, each having his peculiar style, his own manner of pres-
entation, using at times even various sources at hand. But their words,
“all written by inspiration, were in the strictest sense of the term God’s
Word, and since the Bible has just one Author, it constitutes one
organic whole.

4, Paragraph 3 of the Brief Statement verbatim.

5. Paragraph-3 of the Affirmation. Add in line 2, after “in glory”:
“to judge the quick and the dead.”

Of Conversion

14, Cancel the sentence “We therefore reject also the Calvinistic
teaching that grace works irresistibly,” and substitute: It is evident,
therefore, that we do not teach the Calvinistic doctrine of “irresistible

Brace. Of the Means of Grace

22... . Likewise the object of the Lord’s Supper, that is, of the
ministration of the body and blood of Christ, is none other than the
purpose of the Gospel and Holy Baptism, viz., the communication and
sealing of the forgiveness of sins, as the words declare... .

Of the Church

26. Read line 7: “The means of grace, therefore, are closely related
to the Church, for their use is necessary to its very existence here

on earth.” :
Line 14, after the word “marks,” add: “and not the visible side.”

On Church Fellowship

29. Insert Matt. 7:15 after “between orthodox and heterodox church
bodies” (line 5), and Rom.16:17 after “to leave them” (line 7). Last
sentence of the paragraph to read: “We repudiate unionism, that is,
joint church work or worship with adherents of unorthodox church
bodies, because thereby the truth is either denied or the appearance of
denial or at least of indifferentism is given in disobedience to God’s com-
mand, as causing divisions in the Church, Rom. 16:17; 2John 9,10; and
as involving the constant danger of losing the Word of God entirely,
2 Tim. 2:17-21; Gal. 5:9.