# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S16
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

16 Proceedings of the twenty-first convention

over us, through us and in us. This is a brief description of the Christian according to his highest privileges; he stands in fellowship with the three highest Persons. It is then, self-evidently, again faith through which we stand in relation to this triune God. There is no stronger bond than when the triune God Himself encloses us.

That a "certain warmth" lies in the expression "LORD" comes from the fact that this LORD, according to Scripture, occupies a quite peculiar position toward all men, and especially toward those who belong to Him. Paul says (1 Cor. 8:5, 6): "For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth (as there be gods many, and lords many), but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him." In this juxtaposition we find an indication of the distinctive character of this LORD. How does it stand with the lords whom the Jew or the heathen acknowledges? These lords give men commandments, regulations, and tell them that if they comply with these regulations they shall receive a reward on the ground of their works and be saved on account of works. But this one LORD, Jesus Christ, has taken hold of the matter quite differently. He did not appear here in the world to give men laws, or to have instructions come to them as to how they are to come to God by their own efforts, but this LORD took upon Himself all the obligations that men have toward God, fulfilled the law in the place of all men and shed His blood and so made peace. Because this LORD is such a unique Lord, Christians also stand to Him in a quite unique relationship. This LORD is precisely their Savior. The English word Lord in particular sounds legalistic and is also used by the sects in many cases in a legalistic sense of our LORD. But even when we use this word, we are to keep in mind that what is designated by it is this one LORD and Savior, who differs from all other lords in that He carried through the cause of men in His own person and now meets them with the message: Here you have grace and access to God.

Because there is only one LORD, there is also only one faith. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Christians may be as different outwardly as they like: they may live in Australia or America, they may be white or red, educated or uneducated — if they are Christians, they have one faith, namely the one faith in the one LORD, who has set their cause right with God.

It has been pointed out that many interpreters understand by the one faith the faith which is believed,