# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S463
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

448 CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

5. Lutherans think it is "rash"
to teach something that pass-
ages of Scripture do not
teach (Ap, XII, 138), and
that it is "extreme impu-
dence" to teach anything

that is contrary to testi-
monies of Scripture (Ap,
XXIII, 63).

a. Lutherans, therefore, hold
"that it is only from the
Word of God that judgments
on articles of faith are to
be pronounced" (FC, SD, II,
8). They accept “without
reservation... the Scrip-
tures of the Old and New
Testaments as the written
Word of God and the only
rule and norm of faith and
of practice” (Lutheran
Church--Missouri Synod
Constitution, Art. II, 1).

b. Lutherans appeal to and
use the Sacred Scriptures
as a whole, as well as in-
dividual passages of Scrip-
ture, as the sole and final
authority in the Church.