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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 188

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188 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention, ,
knowingly, willingly, and maliciously, until God overcomes the re-
sistance by bestowing faith upon him;

“b) That non-conversion is solely and exclusively the fault of
men. They are not converted because they resist God— who earnestly
desires to perform and finish the work of conversion in all men—
and persist in their resistance to Him.”

Conversion, Antithesis 3. Strike “as resulting from the same
cause” and the note. Add at the close: “on his desisting from mali-
cious resistance or on its non-existence.” .

B. The Universal Gracious Will of God, Thesis 1: Strike “Eph.
1,11.” Thesis 8: Strike “Eph. 1,9.” °

Add the following statement to Thesis 5: “The doctrine of the
universal gracious will of God, presented in the preceding paragraphs,
is in the Scriptures distinguished from the doctrine of the decree of
predestination, which is presented in the following paragraphs.”

. Predestination, Thesis 4, should read: “Thus election, or predes-
“ination, is in Christ Jesus a cause which,” ete.

Predestination, Thesis 5. Strike “includes * and causes”; sub-
stitute: “has as its result that.” ,

Predestination, Thesis 6. Strike the second sentence. In sen-
tence three strike “therefore.”

Predestination, Thesis 8, par.1. Add after “enumerated in our
Confessions”: “for example, that under the same grace and the equal |
guilt of all men some are converted and saved, others not.” —

Predestination, Antithesis 1. Add: “At the same time Thesis 4,
Predestination Series; is held in all its implications.”

Predestination, Antithesis 2, b: “Grace of election” is to be en-
closed in quotation-marks. Add: “At the same time Thesis 4, Pre-
destination Series, is held in all its implications.”

Predestination, Antithesis 3: Add: “For the Scriptures teach
that this is due solely to the resistance of men.— On the mystery
confronting one who compares those who are saved with those who
are not saved, see Thesis 8, Predestinatiow Series.”

The “statement concerning the phrase intuitu fidet finalis” ought
to read as follows: “Besides speaking of eternal election in the form.
presented in the foregoing theses’ (which has been called the first
form), the following form (called the second form) has also been
used in the Lutheran Church: ‘Out of pure grace God decreed from .
eternity that He would on Judgment Day, bestow on those of whom
He, as omniscient God, foresaw that in time they would believe on
Christ and persevere in faith unto the end, in view of this their faith
(or as it has also been put: in view of Christ’s merit apprehended.
by faith), the crown of glory.’ Thus according to the first form elec-

* Found only in the German version of the theses.