# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1144
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 495

ns to, the Common Confession in case further study or
ments made them necessary or advisable. Therefore the
ttee has made itself available to all who wished to consult
‘as a result met with individual members and groups of
s of our Church, listened to their presentations, and ‘en-
myored to answer their questions. Members of the committee
e appeared before conferences and District conventions and
‘answered whatever correspondence was directed to them in

‘ gee matters.

: oP The committee has also had meetings with representatives of
the other synods of the Synodical Conference to discuss the

Common Confession in a very thorough manner. (Other inter-
synodical matters do not belong to our sphere of aetivity.) In
meetings held in January, 1951, and in April, 1951, and attended by
' representatives of all the constituent synods, attention was focused
on the sections of the Common Confession, as adopted at Mil-
waukee, regarding which some need for clarification was felt. Upon
invitation several members of the committee were present at the
convention of the Wisconsin Synod, held at New Ulm, Minn., in
August, 1951, and at the convention of the Slovak Church, held in

Detroit in the same month.
The Norwegian Synod resolved at its convention in J une, 1951:

Wuereas, The matter of the Common Confession has been
placed before our Synod by our sister synod, The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod, for our consent. to the course of action
outlined in the resolutions of the Missouri Synod, be it

Resolved, That we cannot give our consent to the Common
Confession as a settlement of doctrinal differences between the
Synodical Conference and the American Lutheran Church, for the
following reasons:

The Common Confession does not reject the errors of the
American Lutheran Church. The document does not reject the
false doctrine which has been expressed in the American Lutheran
Church, that some parts of Scripture are not divinely inspired.
John 10,35: II Tim. 3,16. On the contrary, when describing the
origin of Scripture the Common Confession uses the expression
“content and fitting word,” which is acceptable to many of those
who also accept the false doctrine aforementioned.

Secondly, although the justification of all mankind in Christ
(objective justification, Rom. 4,5; 5,18) has been openly denied
within the American Lutheran Church, yet the Common Confession
does not definitely state that God has declared all mankind to be
righteous in Christ.

Thirdly, the error of the American Lutheran Church, that
some people are converted to Christ while others are not, because
the converted offer only a natural resistance, while others offer
willful resistance, — this error is not rejected in the Common Con-
fession. Rom. 3, 22.23.