# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S189
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Fourth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1884.   189

we say instead: reborn reason, insofar as it truly is that, judges the articles of faith on the basis of God's word and does not go beyond its bounds. But God's word reads thus: Take, eat, this is my body! If reason judges against this word of Christ according to its own principles, then it is no longer the reborn reason but is following its own direction, and then it is no more to be listened to than the philosopher is to be listened to when he disputes the resurrection of the body with the principle: No individual that has once ceased to exist can come back into existence as the same individual — nor is it to be listened to any more than the anti-trinitarian who disputes the mystery of the Trinity with this principle: One cannot be three — or the Arian who disputes the eternal begetting of the Son with this principle: The begotten is later than the begetter." (L. de interpret. S. s. § 177.)*

* Here the doctrinal proceedings were broken off. The volume of business matters still pending did not allow the discussion on Thesis 2 to be finished.