LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 2010, Page 171

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Theology and Church Relations
the historicity of the Genesis account of creation and opens the
door for evolution (reviewed in the August 7, 1995, Christian
News).
3. “Minimalists on Parade,” a report in the January/February 2004
Biblical Archaeological Review of an academic conference
of leading Bible scholars in Rome, concludes that David
and Solomon never existed and that the Bible has little or no
reliable history (Christian News, January 3, 2004).
4. The Jesus Seminar, a group of Protestant and Roman Catholic
Bible scholars, maintains that some 80 percent of the words
attributed to Jesus in the Bible were never spoken by Jesus.
5. The Jerome Biblical Commentary of the Roman Catholic
Church, which has Rome’s imprimatur and is dedicated to the
memory of Pope Pius XII, says that the Bible contains fiction,
myths, and fables;
and
Whereas, Most major Protestant denominations and the Roman
Catholic Church allow their theologians to promote such notions of
the higher critics as the J-E-D-P source hypothesis, which rejects the
Mosaic authorship of the first five books of the Bible, the fact that the
known eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah wrote the Book of Isaiah,
the fact that the sixth-century B.C. prophet Daniel wrote the Book of
Daniel, the fact that the first chapters of Genesis present historic fact
and not myth, the fact that the Book of Jonah presents historic fact,
and the fact that the exodus took place in the fifteenth century B.C.,
as the Bible teaches; for example:
The massive 2,112-page Lutheran Study Bible, published by the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in 2009, the work
of scores of ELCA scholars, says it presents the best of modern biblical scholarship (p. 15). Lutheran Study Bible (reviewed in the March
23, 2009, Christian News) does not affirm the scriptural doctrines
of the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible (pp. 20–22), says the
Book of Daniel was written in the second century B.C., says First
and Second Timothy were not written by Paul (p. 1952), says the
exodus took place in 1290 (pp. 31, 124); says Isaiah 40–66 was written long after Isaiah died by some Second Isaiah (p. 31), says the
first five books of the Bible came from some unknown sources designated as J-E-D-P and Q and not from Moses (p. 45), says much of
the New Testament came from some fictitious source designated by
higher critics as “Q” (pp. 1599–1600), and says Jesus is not the only
way to heaven (p. 1658).
and
Whereas, Many are unaware that the LCMS during its great
“Battle for the Bible” insisted that Moses wrote the first five books
of the Bible, the known eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah wrote
the Book of Isaiah, the sixth-century B.C. prophet Daniel wrote the
Book of Daniel, the exodus took place in the fifteenth century B.C.,
the J-E-D-P and Q sources are fiction and never existed except in the
minds of unbelieving Bible scholars, and the books of Genesis and
Jonah present historic fact; and
Whereas, The Lutheran Study Bible, published by Concordia
Publishing House in 2009, clearly presents justification by faith as
the chief teaching of the Christian faith, defends the inspiration and
inerrancy of the Bible (p. 1560), defends the Mosaic authorship of
the first five books of the Bible (p. 3), rejects evolution (p. 10), shows
that the Trinity is taught in the Old Testament (p. 14), asserts that
Job 19:25–26 teaches the resurrection of the flesh (p. 807), affirms
that the eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah wrote the entire Book of
Isaiah (pp. 1085–86), affirms that Psalm 16 refers directly to Christ
(p. 857), affirms that the sixth-century B.C. prophet Daniel wrote
the Book of Daniel (p. 1393), affirms that Jesus is the only way to
heaven (p. 1811), affirms that Christianity is the only true faith (p.
1839), affirms that homosexuality is sinful (pp. 1910–1911), shows

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that women should not serve as pastors (p. 2073), and affirms that
there should be no sex outside of marriage (p. 2121); therefore be it
Resolved, That in response to modern Protestant and Roman
Catholic “scholarship” and particularly ELCA’s Lutheran Study
Bible, the 2010 LCMS convention declare that Moses wrote the first
five books of the Bible, the known eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah
wrote the Book of Isaiah, the sixth-century B.C. prophet Daniel wrote
the Book of Daniel, all the statements attributed to Jesus in the New
Testament were actually made by Jesus, the J-E-D-P and Q sources
never existed, the exodus took place in the fifteenth century B.C., and
Jesus is the only way to heaven; and be it further
Resolved, That all professors and pastors on the LCMS clergy roster must confess and teach that the entire books of Genesis and Jonah
present historic fact, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible,
the known eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah wrote the entire Book
of Isaiah, the exodus took place in the fifteenth century B.C. as the
Bible teaches, the J-E-D-P and Q sources never existed, and Jesus is
the only way to heaven; and be it further
Resolved, That the 2010 LCMS convention resolve that the LCMS
regards the views expressed in ELCA’s Lutheran Study Bible to be
far more destructive than the resolution the 2009 ELCA Churchwide
Assembly adopted declaring that practicing homosexuals and lesbians may serve as pastors; and be it further
Resolved, That the convention, while not endorsing the use of
the English Standard Version of the Bible, commend Concordia
Publishing House and the editors of The Lutheran Study Bible for
the many thoroughly scriptural notes in CPH’s The Lutheran Study
Bible, published in 2009; and be it finally
Resolved, That the convention ask the President of the LCMS to
inform the ELCA that the LCMS regards the destructive views of
the Bible expressed in the ELCA’s Lutheran Study Bible as being
far more destructive and divisive than the ELCA’s support of homosexual pastors and abortion.
Trinity
New Haven, MO
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To Encourage Frequent Observance
of the Lord’s Supper
Whereas, A 2008 survey conducted by the LCMS Commission
on Worship regarding worship practice in the LCMS reveals that
one-fourth to one-third of the congregations offering blended or contemporary worship services offer the Sacrament of the Altar at these
services less than once per month, with up to one- tenth of them never
celebrating the Sacrament at all (Question 45, Results of the LCMS
2008 Worship Survey, p. 38); and
Whereas, Regular and frequent reception of these means of God’s
grace is to be encouraged, for we are even exhorted to frequent reception by the very command and institution of the sacrament itself (Matt.
26; Mark 14; Luke 22; 1 Cor. 11); and
Whereas, The Lutheran Confessors at Augsburg noted the importance of the Sacrament of the Altar as a mark of the Church when
they appealed to the emperor that “among us masses are performed
every Lord’s Day and on the other festivals” (Apology Art. XXIV
1); therefore be it
Resolved, That the 2010 LCMS convention encourage the congregations of the Synod to offer the Sacrament of the Altar frequently.
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