# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S524
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524 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

of the District essay as quoted in the ACDP Report, Pars. 19, 28, 39,
and 52, 53.) While the ACDP Report (both in its original 1951
form and in its revised 1956 form) should have expressed its
disagreement with the essay’s failure to reject these ALC teach-
ings upon which it expresses opinion, it does not do so. (See
especially Par.116.). Thus the matter of the necessary correction
of the 1949 essay still remains unsettled.

We therefore respectfully request Synod to correct the essay
under consideration, so that the ALC teachings referred to are
rejected as doctrinally objectionable. We also request Synod not
to accept the ACDP Report for the reason mentioned above.

To show what we mean more specifically with the request
stated above, the undersigned congregation asks Synod to declare,
for example, whether or not it still holds:

a. what it confessed as its position in 1857, namely, that the
teaching, as such, of a general conversion of the Jewish nation is
rejected by clear passages of Scripture, and is therefore a false,
unscriptural teaching (Proceedings 1857, p. 25, cf. p. 42; see also
Proceedings 1947, pp. 490, 491);

b. what it confessed as its position at its convention of the
Western District (Proceedings 1869, p.37), concerning the doctrine
that the pope is the very Antichrist, namely: “If we would not
hold that the pope is the very Antichrist, we would thereby deny
a doctrine clearly set forth in Scripture” (see also Proceedings
1947, pp. 491, 492);

c. what it confessed as its position in 1857, namely, that the
teaching of a physical resurrection of a number of departed Chris-
tians or martyrs before the general resurrection on Judgment Day
on the basis of Rev. 20:4 is not only unscriptural because Rev.
20:4 does not speak of a physical resurrection, but is also rejected
by such passages as John 5:28 and John 6:39, 40, since these pas-
sages clearly teach that there will be but one resurrection of the
dead. (See Proceedings 1857, pp. 80—85; see also Proceedings
1947, pp. 490, 491.)

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 3, Synod resolved:

Resolution 7

Wuereas, The Advisory Committee on Doctrine and Practice
had the specific assignment to consider objections to the essay
delivered by Dr. Wm. Arndt in the 1949 conventions of the Southern
California and of the California-Nevada Districts of Synod; and