# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S301
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Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters 299

t did not imply endorsement in every case of the exegetical
ther lines of argumentation and the feeling of obligation to

subjective justification and to fundamental and non-funda-
doctrines also need clarification.
The commissioners of the American Lutheran Church

her unsatisfactory and which gave cause for alarm concerning ©
correct view of verbal inspiration on the part of the com-
mers of the American Lutheran Church and their determina-
to uphold and defend the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of
Scriptures. Memorial 605 says “that the American Lutheran
lurch officially differs with our Synod on the doctrine of the
ly Scriptures.” (1941, p. 204.)

.°§. The American Lutheran Church is also taking an attitude
owards the United Lutheran Church which is not in the direction
upholding sound Lutheranism.

-' 6 Although the American Lutheran Church at its Detroit
onvention expressed “the confident hope that our sister synods
in the American Lutheran Conference will occupy the same ground
in these matters now occupied by us,” yet at the Minneapolis
Convention of the American Lutheran Conference the American
utheran Church neglected to approach the Conference on this
ery important matter. “On the contrary,” according to the church
ress (cf. Lutheran Standard, Dec. 7, 1940, and Lutheran. Com-
‘panion, Nov. 28, 1940), the American Lutheran Conference meet-
ng was unconditionally and emphatically assured by spokesmen
f the American Lutheran Church that the latter had no intention
‘of leaving the American Lutheran Conference.” (1941, p. 195.)
This fact prompts our Union Committee to raise the question
‘whether there is not a fundamental difference between the
American Lutheran Church and our Synod on the meaning of
confessional loyalty,” and places this matter before this convention
for thorough deliberation.

7. Memorial 603 says that “the doctrinal basis for church~
fellowship adopted 1938” contains “errors in doctrine” and
“historical errors” and asks Synod “to withdraw the aforesaid
doctrinal basis.”

8. At a meeting of our committee with representatives of our
‘sister synods in the Synodical Conference on January 3 and 4,