# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S212 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 212 UNPUBLISHED REPORTS AND OVERTURES 5. Constitutional Matters and Membership Applications [5-29 Un] To Request the Detroit Convention to Ask the President of the District in Which Dr. Martin Scharlemann Now Holds Membership to Deal with Him According to the Synodical “Handbook,” ete. Wuereas, Dr. Martin Scharlemann has written: 1. “. . the Scriptures themselves are not a revela- tion, but a medium of revelation, whereby we today are brought into contact with God’s redeeming acts in their claim on us” (“The Bible as Record, Medium, and Witness”); 2. Quoting Kittel’s Woerterbuch, Dr. Scharlemann agrees that “Revelation is not the communication of supernatural knowledge and not the stimulation of numinous feelings” (“Revelation and Inspiration”) ; 3. “In this paper I propose to defend the paradox that the Book of God’s truth contains errors” (“The Inerrancy of Scripture”); 4, “Most certainly David believed that other gods ruled outside the confines of Israel.” “H. H. Rowley, therefore, may be quite right in saying, ‘Moses was less than a monotheist, but he was more than a heno- theist’!” (“God Is One,” Lutheran Quarterly, Aug. 1959); and Wuereas, The above statements are contrary to the Word of God and therefore false doctrine; and Wuereas, Dr. Martin Scharlemann has written after the 1962 Cleveland convention of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod that his essays do not contain false doctrine and that his “apology” was not a retraction of any false doctrine; and WHEREAS, Some members of the Commission on The- ology and Church Relations insist that the “Scharle- mann Case” has not been settled and that Dr. Scharle- mann’s essays contain false doctrine, while other members of the same commission contend that the “Scharlemann Case” is settled and that Dr. Scharle- mann’s essays do not contain false doctrine; there- fore be it Resolved, That the 1965 Detroit convention of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod request the Presi- dent of the District of which Dr. Scharlemann is pres- ently a member to deal with him according to the synodical Handbook as one who is guilty of false doc- trine. 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