# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S326
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326 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Report of the Committee on Doctrinal Unity
of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.
and of the Committee on Fellowship:
of the American Lutheran Church

In order to give expression to our common Christian F
hereby declare the following to be our mutual convictig
testimony:

I. GOD

We believe and teach:

The one and only God is the God who has revealed:.
to us as the Creator of the world and its Preserver, to w
entire creation and all creatures are subject, who is the Lord
Ruler over all things. Through the Holy Scriptures He has
Himself to us as the Righteous and Holy One and also as the’
our salvation from sin and death. He has designated and.
fested Himself as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the. wi
creation, redemption, and sanctification. We therefore confe
faith in this Triune God, three distinct Persons in the one

All men can know of the existence and activity of
riving such knowledge from the creation of the world, th
conscience, and history. But who God is, how He is minded,
man, and what He has done for man’s salvation from sin,
known only from God’s revelation of Himself in Jesus’
through the Holy Scriptures. In Jesus Christ, God becamé
nate. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-Begotten of th
full of grace and truth,” John 1:14.

Cf. Acts 14:15-17; 17:24-31; Romans 1:19-20; 2:14-15;.1.@
thians 2:10-14; Ephesians 2; Colossians1; 2 Timothy 3:14
brews 1—2.

Il. MAN
We believe and teach:

God in the beginning created man in His own image;
according to His Law which God had written into man’
but man disobeyed God and thereby became a sinner, ali
himself from God, and bringing sin and death upon hims
all his posterity. “As by one man sin entered into the wo d
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that alf
sinned,” Romans 5:12. Therefore all men are born into this
with original sin; and being unable to observe God’s divini
mands, they willfully continue to transgress God’s holy I
thoughts, words, and deeds. Man as sinner has delivered