# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S500
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

500 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Of the Election of Grace

37. End second sentence of first section with the words, “on that
account”; eliminate “or that his election is due to a grace of God that
exists exclusively for the elect.”

In the second section change “neither” to “nor.” Change the last
sentence of this section to read: “Hence, this term should not be used in
presenting the doctrine of election.”

39. Break down the first sentence to read: “To be sure, it is
necessary to observe the Scriptural distinction between God’s election
of grace and His universal will of grace. Only when both are maintained
with equal clarity and emphasis will the full Scripture truth be
expressed.”

Change line 11 to read: “Matt. 22:14; Luke7:30, the election of
grace attains its end in all whom it embraces, Rom. 8: 28-30.”

Change lines 15 and 16 to read: “men. While distinguishing between
the universal will of grace and the election of grace, Scripture never
places the two in opposition to each other.”

41, Between the two Bible references in ninth line from end insert

1 Cor, 1:7-8.
Of the Last Things

43, Line 2, change “fundamental” to “basic.”

44. Insert after “chiliasm” (line 2): “the chief teachings of which
are.”

Add in line 9, after “in this present world,” the words: “or that
before the end of the world a universal conversion of the Jewish
nation (of Israel according to the flesh) will take place.”

Change lines 17 and 18 to read: “2 Tim. 4:1; 2Thess.2:8; Heb. 9:
26-28; that there will be but one resurrection, a general resurrection of
the dead, John 5:28; 6:39-40,”

Add at end of paragraph, after “the beginning of a millennium,” the
words: “and that there will be no general conversion, a conversion en.
gasses of the Jewish nation, Rom, 11:7; 2Cor.3:14; Rom. 11:25; 1 Thess.

Add as second paragraph: “According to these clear passages of
Scripture we reject the whole of millennialism, since it not only con-
tradicts Scripture, but also engenders a false conception of the king-
dom of Christ, turns the hope of Christians upon earthly goals, 1 Cor.
pe, Col.3:2, and leads them to look upon the Bible as an obscure

ok,

The “Thousand. Years.’—Insert after “having already been ful-
filled” (line 3) the words: “are now being fulfilled.”

45. The Antichist.— Line 1, read: “We believe and teach.”

Line 3, change “have found a fulfillment” to “have been fulfilled.”

Change line 19 to read: which statement is “an identification based
on a clear prophecy of Scripture and on the history of the Church
in the world. God commands Christians to make such identifications,
Matt. 7:15; 1 John 4:1. Smalcald Articles, Triglot, p. 517, § 41.”

Line 22 to read “present now in the Papacy and thus a still more
comprehensive fulfillment of 2 Thess. 2; ete.”

46. Conversion of the Jews. — Paragraph to read: “Scripture teaches
that there will be no general conversion, a conversion en masse, of the
Jewish nation. Rom. 11:7, 14, 25-26; Rom. 9:6-7.”

47. Resurrection of Martyrs.— Paragraph to read: “We teach on
the basis of such Scripture passages as John 5:28 and 6:39-40 that there
will be but one resurrection of ‘the dead, both of the godly and the un-
godly. Scripture does not speak of a physical resurrection of martyrs
prior to Christ’s coming to Judgment. See also 1 Cor. 15:23-24,.”