# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1147
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

“INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 50L

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

order to give expression to our common Christian Faith, we
y declare the following to be our mutual. conviction and
ony:

I. GOD

e believe and teach:

The one and only God is the God who has revealed Himself

e creation and all creatures are subject, who is the Lord and
wer over all things. Through the Holy Scriptures He has revealed
“Stimself to us as the Righteous and Holy One and also as the God of
salvation from sin and death. He has designated and mani-
fested Himself as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the work of
greation, redemption, and sanctification. We therefore confess our
faith in this Triune God, three distinct Persons in the one Godhead.
(2)... All men can know of the existence and activity of God, de-
& riving such knowledge from the creation of the world, their own
>” gonscience, and history. But who God is, how He is minded toward
‘man, and what He has done for man’s salvation from sin, can be
‘known only from God’s revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ
. through the Holy Scriptures. In Jesus Christ, God became incar-
‘nate. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we

This Confessi
ton of faith
official Committees as their

Spectfully submitted to the Synods f,
ora

The Committee
. on Doctri
Unity of The Lutheran Church, The Committee on Fellowsh;
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. the two
is hereby re_

eir Synods,
doption.

Missouri § 7 of th . beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-Begotten of the Father,
Dr Wa ; ‘yno American Lutheran Ch full of grace and truth,” John 1:14.
* W. Arn : .
Dr. John W chairman Dr. Em. Po ” \furch Cf. Acts 14: 15-17; 17: 24-31; Romans 1: 19-20; 2:14-15; 1 Corin-
D - Behnken ; D Ppen, Chairman thians 2:10-14; Ephesians 2; Colossians1; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; He-
r. John H. C. Fritz tT. Edward C, Fendt brews 1—2.
a F. H. Brunn Or Bernard J. Holm ; _ TL MAN
Ree Walter Baepler De i Ludwig We believe and teach:
Rev yee. J. Meyer Mr C. 7 Young (1) God in the beginning created man in His own image to live
Me H We Jurgens Augie a, E. Schock according to His Law which God had written into man’s heart;
* “. W. Knopp Commit ed by the Executive but man disobeyed God and thereby became a sinner, alienating
L. €e of the American himself from God, and bringing sin and death upon himself and
utheran Church: : Per? ‘ in .
Dr. Wm. Sodt all his posterity. “As by one man sin entered into the world, and

death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned,” Romans 5:12. Therefore all-men are born into this world
with original sin; and being unable to observe God’s divine com-
mands, they. willfully continue to transgress God’s holy Law in
thoughts, words, and deeds. Man as sinner has delivered himself

Dr. Julius Bodeng}
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Chicago, Illinois, December 6, 1949

us as the Creator of the world and its Preserver, to whom the —

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