# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S294
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292 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

that Scripture requires pastors to be sound in doctrine (Titus 1:9) ;
and that we must therefore not admit pastors into our pulpits who
do not meet this requirement (1 Tim. 5: 22),

Historical Errors

1. The Declaration (VI, B, 2) garbles an utterance of Dr. Wal-
ther, as a comparison of the original text and context of his utter-
ance will show.

2, Committee 16 found that the synodical fathers said that
deviation in the doctrines of Antichrist, the conversion of the J ews,
and the resurrection of the martyrs need not be divisive of church-
fellowship. But the committee’s findings are not proved true by
the statements which it cites from the fathers. Indeed, those state-
ments prove the very opposite in regard to the doctrine of a par-
ticular resurrection of the martyrs.

Proposal for Resolutions Re Union
(Memorial 604)
It is proposed: I
That we release from further duties the committee on church-
fellowship with the American Lutheran Church as the American
Lutheran Church has not taken steps to discontinue their present
relationship with the American Lutheran Conference.

II
We leave the continuing of joint discussions between members
of our Synod and the American Lutheran Church on the basis
of God’s Word to the decision and discretion of the individuals
and conferences. II

In order to ward off a misconception of the 1938 resolutions,
we reaffirm our position that anything which is taught in the
Bible can never be considered as non-essential for church-fellow-
ship and that accordingly we regard the distinction of fundamentals
and non-fundamentals as easily confusing in the discussion of
church-fellowship,. since to urge it in this connection may open
the way for abuse in the interest of liberalism and unionism. Our
Church has ever refused to draw any of the following conclusions:

1. That this distinction establishes a difference between things
in the Scriptures that are to be believed and. others that need
not be believed;

2. That orthodoxy is concerned only with the fundamental
articles;

3. That departure from the Scriptural doctrine in non-funda-
mental points is to be condoned.

ArtHur Breck THEODORE GRAEBNER CC. M. GuLLERUD
Cart A. Bramscuer Pauw H. Burcporr G. ScHWEIKERT
THEO. BUENGER