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Significant Doctrinal Comments
Years: 1847-1998

Topic Abortion
Subtopic abomination
Date 1998
Vol.,Page Summary

  • 60, 141b
  • Abortion is the killing of the unborn and an abomination to the Lord.

  • Abortion
  • destructive
  • 1979
  • 53, 117a
  • The practice of abortion is destructive of the moral consciousness and character of the people of any

nation.

Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion Abortion holocaust immoral immoral murder protest rejected Scripture sin
1986 1989 1992 1998 1979 1977 1981 1977 1977 1981 1981
56, 212a 57, 115b 58, 116a 60, 119b 53, 117a 52, 131a 54, 156a 52, 136a 52, 130b 54, 155b 54, 155b
The legalized murder of unborn children constitutes an American holocaust. Abortion is not a moral option, except as a byproduct of a procedure to prevent the death of another. Abortion is not a moral option, except as a byproduct of a procedure to prevent the death of another. Unborn children, woven together by God, are slain through abortion. Christians have an obligation to protest abortion as a heinous crime against the will of God. Synod opposes the legalization of non-therapeutic abortions. Synod's opposition to willful abortion is based on Scripture. Abortion is a sin.

  • sinful
  • Willful abortion is contrary to the will of God.

willful witness
Synod opposes willful abortion. Protest against abortion on demand and witnessing to the sanctity of life are the responsibility of every Christian.

Absolution Abuse
Baptism child
1971 1989 1989
49, 120a 57, 159a 57, 159b
Baptismal life should include some form of confession and individual (private) absolution. Child abuse and neglect are a definite hindrance to a child's faith.

  • Abuse
  • child
  • Child abuse is cyclic, often perpetuating godless life-styles in victims.

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  • Abuse
  • domestic
  • 1989
  • 57, 159b
  • Domestic abuse degrades the family, increases suffering, prevents healthy growth and development,

and perpetuates unchristian life-styles.

Addiction Adiaphora Adiaphora Adiaphora

  • prayer
  • 1995

1874 1896 1896
59, 145b 3a, 22
The prayers of God's people have been part of halting the destructive tide of addiction.

  • Specific conditions lead Christians in determining answers about adiaphora.
  • application

guidelines guidelines
4b, 30 4b, 30
In matters of disagreement, the majority or the minority should yield to the other out of love. The congregation determines matters of adiaphora with the advice of the pastor (their official counselor), by the example of the old Church, in harmony with sister-congregations.

  • Adiaphora
  • majority rule
  • 1902
  • 5a, 24
  • In adiaphora, the minority yields to the majority, because all know that the Church will not fall apart

as long as it remains by the Word of God.

Admonition Admonition Admonition Admonition Advocacy AELC
Christian effective private
1899 1899 1872 1938 1998 1977 1977 1920

  • 4c, 37
  • Christians must be admonished so that they actually avoid what they know to be sinful.

Christian admonition is enough to move believers to do all they should. (Stewardship) The first element of Church discipline is the open exercise of brotherly admonition, not gossip. It is wrong to make a disagreement public before Matt. 18 has been fully complied with. We are called to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves and to love them as ourselves. The AELC is to be regarded as schismatic.
4c, 33 2d, 89

  • private
  • 37, 323

60, 120a 52, 155a 52, 189b 9, 232 helpless schismatic

  • disease
  • Alcoholism

America
Alcoholism is a disease with spiritual, mental, physical, and social implications.

  • school
  • The Lutheran school must demonstrate that it accomplishes the Americanization of the children even

better than the public school does.

  • America
  • spirituality

denounced
1890 1893
3f, 26 4a, 49
The American mentality is governed by a sneaky, superficial, apathetic and business-like spirit, also in spiritual matters.

  • Antichrist
  • We have the duty to warn churches of the actual antichristian character of the papacy.

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Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrists

  • Pope
  • 1863

1869 1872 1893 1938 1869 1893 1893
2a, 45 2c, 32 f 2d, 64 4a, 46 37, 229 2c, 31 4a, 48 4a, 46f.
The Confessions clearly teach that the pope is the antichrist.

  • The Pope is the Antichrist.
  • Pope

  • Pope
  • The Pope fulfills the description of the Antichrist in 1 Tim. 4:1ff.

The Pope fulfills all the Scriptural prophecies of the Antichrist. The Pope is the very Antichrist for the past and the future. Roman priests are named accomplices to the Antichrist (the Pope). Only he who knows Christ can properly identify the Antichrist.
Pope Pope priests recognition

  • defined
  • The Scripture calls all false teachers Antichrists because they set their own authority over that of

Christ.

  • Anti-Semitism evangelism
  • 1983

1899
55, 142b 4c, 28
All forms of anti-Semitism hinders bringing the Gospel to Jewish people.
Apologetics

Apologetics Appeals

  • benefits
  • Apologetics do not give power to the Word of God but remove external barriers which prevent it from

being properly heard.

languages

resolution
1874 1935

  • 3a, 26
  • A public defense against error requires a thorough knowledge of the "old languages"--Latin, Greek

and Hebrew. Luther cited.

  • 14, 211
  • The rights of all involved in an appeal to the Synod should be fixed according to principles of equity

and Christian charity.

  • Art
  • worship
  • 1969

1950 1938 1899
48, 151b 41, 416 37, 249 4c, 37
Art has always been an integral part of the worship life of the Church. There is a strong leaven of practical atheism on the college campus today. Every member of Synod should be familiar with the Augsburg Confession.
Atheism Augustana Ban college familiarity

  • application
  • Not the weak and erring are to be excommunicated, but those who are open, unrepentant enemies of

the Word of God.

  • Ban
  • application
  • 1908
  • 5c, 146
  • A member can be properly excommunicated from his congregation on account of refusing to be

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reconciled to his neighbor.

  • Ban
  • congregation
  • 1866
  • 2b, 44
  • It would be against the Word of God to require synodical approval before a congregation could

excommunicate a member.

Ban Ban

  • divine
  • 1923

1911
10, 225 6, 187
A just excommunication should be recognized as the voice of the Lord.

  • removal
  • The ban against a member who asked for the congregation's forgiveness was lifted and he has

partaken of the Lord's Supper there.

  • Ban
  • synodical
  • 1866
  • 2b, 47
  • It is helpful toward the edification of the Church that the Synod assist the local congregation in

matters of excommunication.

Ban Ban unbelievers unjust
1893 1869
4a, 42 2c, 89
We exclude manifest unbelievers from the local congregations. Excommunicated members of congregations in fellowship should not be accepted without examination of whether the ban was just.

  • Baptism
  • adiaphora
  • 1967
  • 47, 92a
  • In the Baptismal rite, the following are adiaphora: making the sign of the cross over the water, using a

white baptismal robe, giving the baptizand a lighted candle.

Baptism Baptism community duty
1998 1962
60, 105a 45, 114a
The community of the Gospel is an inclusive baptismal community. God makes parents, sponsors, and congregations responsible for the Christian nurture of baptized children.

  • Baptism
  • immersion
  • 1956
  • 43, 522
  • A pastor who submitted a proposal that immersion be the normal mode for Baptism was referred to

his District President for discipline.

Baptism Baptism

  • initiation
  • 1971

1902
49, 120a 5a, 94
Baptism is nothing less than initiation into the death and resurrection of Christ.

  • instruction
  • A Jewish woman was prepared for baptismal instruction by the Synodical lay missionary and

examined before a commission.

Baptism Baptism instruction mission
1971 1965
49, 120a 46, 81b
The expression of Christian baptism is the basis for all Christian instruction. All baptized into Christ are baptized into His death and resurrection, into His mission, and into His body.

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Baptism Baptism new life parents
1971 1971
49, 120a 49, 120a
The Baptized bear fruit in a life of repentance and faith, the death of the old Adam and the resurrection of the new man.

Baptismal life is compromised when parents or sponsors demonstrate little understanding of the significance of Baptism.

Baptism Barry sponsors booklets
1850 1998

  • 1, 138
  • Sponsors speak in the place of the child.

  • 60, 152a
  • Dr. Barry's booklets (e.g., Catechesis in the Lutheran Congregation, The Nature and Basis of

Lutheran Worship) are scriptural, orthodox, confessional, and helpful.

  • Bible class
  • essential

approval
1962 1944
45, 116b 39, 322
Excellent Bible classes are essential to grounding God's people in God's Word.

  • Bible Society
  • The Synod approves the work of the American Bible Society in providing Scriptures without

sectarian comment.

Bible Society Bible approval youth
1965 1944 1977
46, 193b 39, 129
Synod recognizes the American Bible Society as a helping agency in the distribution of Bibles. A Bible class is an excellent means to provide guidance for youth in our age.

  • Bible
  • authority
  • 52, 132b
  • Denying the unity of the Bible and ascribing multiple meanings to the text renders the Bible useless

as a final authority.

  • Bible
  • authorship
  • 1977
  • 52, 132b
  • The historical-critical method tenuates the Spirit’s authorship of the Bible, evaporates its unity, and

makes its self-interpretation inoperative.

Bible Bible

  • Christ
  • 1902

1923

  • 5a, 38
  • Christ, the Savior of sinners, is the content of both the Old and New Testaments.

  • editions
  • 10, 167
  • Bibles with misleading or inadequate headings can keep simple readers from a proper Christian

understanding.

  • Bible
  • hermeneutic
  • 1938
  • 37, 239
  • The Synod concedes variously interpretations of Biblical texts, but only in harmony with the analogy

of faith.

Bible Bible hermeneutic hermeneutic
1967 1971
47, 143a 49, 129b
The love of God in Christ is the interpreting key to the Bible. The historical critical method seems to be at the root of many problems of Biblical interpretation.

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  • Bible
  • hermeneutic
  • 1977
  • 52, 132b
  • The historical-critical method is based on human reasoning, which is unable to deal with supernatural

operations.

Bible Bible ideologies inspired
1950 1872
41, 394 2d, 53
Acquaintance with the Word of God enables the laity to cope with the ideologies of the age. The inspiration of the Scripture can be demonstrated from Christ's answer, "Man does not live by bread alone, etc."

Bible Bible Bible Bible

  • literacy
  • 1959

1929 1977
44, 155 12, 203 52, 132b 6, 204
Illiterate people need to be taught to read so they may study the Word of God.

  • The Lutheran Church is the Bible Church.
  • Lutheran

  • meaning
  • The Biblical text has only one meaning.

norma normans 1911

norma normans 1911
The Holy Scriptures are the sole, authentic and sufficient norm of Christian doctrine and life, infallible and inerrant.

Bible

Bible

  • 6, 207
  • The Holy Scriptures are the sole, authentic and sufficient norm of Christian doctrine and life,

infallible and inerrant.

  • origin
  • 1977
  • 52, 132b
  • The historical-critical method wrongly reduces the Bible to a product of merely human thought and

experience.

Bible Bible Bible Bible Bible Bible Bible original text study
1962 1941 1947 1947 1953 1956 1956
45, 141a 38, 149 39, 313 39, 314 42, 283 43, 312 43, 313
Only the original texts of the Bible constitute the authority for Synodical doctrine. Synod should emphasize and promote Bible study on the junior, senior and adult levels. All ages should learn to use the Lord's day for study of the Bible as well as worship. Renewal of Bible study must come as a special blessing from God. study study

  • study
  • Bible study is basic to all work of the Church: witnessing, teaching, leading, serving, and giving.

Study of the Bible strengthens conviction, overcomes nominalism, and defeats materialism. Bible study is vital for bringing youth into a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ. study study

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Bible Bible study study
1977 1983
52, 183a 55, 146a
Bible study materials should reflect our confessional stance with emphasis on contemporary needs. Small-group Bible study provides another opportunity for the Spirit to work in the hearts of God's people as they grow in knowledge and discipleship.

Bible

Bible study study
1989 1995
57, 106b 59, 156b
The faithful study of the Word of God is to be encouraged in every congregation and by every member.

Paul commended the Bereans because they received the Word with all eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily.

Bible Bible translation translation
1962 1962
45, 126b 45, 141a
Synod has not designated any Bible translation as official. Bible translations possess the power of the Word of God in private, family, and corporate study and in formal worship.

Bible Bible Bible Bible translation translation translation use
1962 1962 1962 1950
45, 141a 45, 141a 45, 141b 41, 393
Reliable Bible translations are a gift of God for the Church's task of preaching and teaching. Synod refrains from adopting an official Bible translation. Congregations have the liberty to use Bible translations within confessional limitations. The doctrine of the Word and the priesthood of all believers require each believer to use the Word regularly and fruitfully.

Bible Bible Bible

  • use
  • 1953

1967 1899
42, 283 47, 143a 4c, 25
The situation of the world is a God-given sign to intensity use of the Word of God.

  • use
  • The Church must encourage greater use of the Bible for the renewal of the Church's life and spirit.

  • Word of God
  • The Bible is not just a report about the Word of God, but the Word of God itself, given by God,

although externally it appears like a human word.

  • Bible
  • Word of God

authority Greek
1967 1896 1896
47, 159b 4b, 31
The Bible is the Word of God, which like a seed has the power to produce life.

  • Bishops have no authority to rule apart from the Word of God.
  • Bishops

  • Bishops
  • 4b, 34f.
  • Greek Orthodox bishops claim to be set up by the Holy Spirit as lords in the Church.

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Black power Blessings Blind affirmed celebration talents
1969 1992 1965 1965 1965 1965 1923
48, 148b 58, 180a 46, 86a
Black power is a legitimate expression of blacks as their aim to achieve secular dignity. Scripture is replete with encouragement for Christians to celebrate God's blessings in their lives. God has given varied talents to the blind which can be used for the extension of Christ's kingdom.

  • The legal bequeathing of human bodies is a matter of individual conscience.
  • Body
  • donation of

research
46, 195a 46, 195a 46, 195a 10, 163

  • Body
  • Christians are aware of the benefits of research on the body after death.

  • Body
  • resurrection

danger
Christians believe in the resurrection of the body and eternal life won by Christ.

  • Books
  • The Church must take care lest the good seed sown among youth be strangled by worldly or sectarian

books.

  • Books
  • school
  • 1890

1953 1969

  • 3f, 60
  • Our schools should not use books which contain false doctrines or an unchristian worldview.

  • The matter of Scouting should be left to the individual congregation to decide.
  • Boy Scouts

Buildings

  • polity
  • 42, 555

  • 48, 147b
  • Christian
  • Though buildings belong to the secular kingdom, they are necessary for the work of the Church,

sanctified by the Word of God, and received with thanksgiving.

Call Call Call abandoning applications approval
1850 1986 1857
1, 123 f 56, 143a 1, 354
A pastor may leave his call if the members are not willing to submit to the Word. The nature and implications of the call have many practical applications in the life of the Church. The members of a new daughter congregation should have their previous pastor approve the man they desire to call.

  • Call
  • basis
  • 1998
  • 60, 121a
  • Candidates are called and ordained into the holy ministry on the basis of examination and certification

by the Church through the seminaries.

Call Call
Christian Christian
1893 1971

  • 4a, 49
  • Each Christian has the call to lead others into the way of everlasting life.

  • 49, 195a
  • Christian people have been called by God to right wrongs, heal woes, strengthen the weak, and feed

the hungry.

  • Call
  • consideration
  • 1962
  • 45, 147a
  • Concerns about housing are unwarranted considerations in the acceptance of a divine call.

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  • The Divine Inspiration of the Bible

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    The Divine Inspiration of the Bible Author(s): Pink, Arthur W. Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Description: "Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority." In his book Divine Inspiration of the Bible, Arthur Pink aspires to defend the groundwork of Christianity--the Bible. Pink defines the Scriptures, or Word of God, as the foundation of the Christian religion. The Bible claims to be a divine revelation, and as such, it transcends human productivity. Pink©s book examines the idea of divine inspiration and presents several arguments which aim to prove that God Almighty is the author of the Bible. As Christians, the Bible demands our attention, and Pink©s book helps Christians gain a firmer understanding of the Bible©s authority. Emmalon Davis CCEL Staff Writer Subjects: The Bible Works about the Bible i Contents Title 1 Introduction 2 There Is a Presumption in Favor of the Bible 5 The Perennial Freshness of the Bible Bears Witness to its Divine Inspirer 8 The Unmistakable Honesty of the Writers of the Bible Attests to its Heavenly Origin 10 The Character of its Teachings Evidences the Divine Authorship of the Bible 15 The Fulfilled Prophecies of the Bible Bespeak the Omniscience of its Author 22 The Typical Significance of the Scriptures Declare Their Divine Authorship 26 The Wonderful Unity of the Bible Attests its Divine Authorship 36 The Marvelous Influence of the Bible Declares its Super-Human Character 39 The Miraculous Power of the Bible Shows Forth That its Inspirer Is the Almighty 41 I.
  • BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS (English) 1

    BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS (English) 1

    BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS (English) 1. Why is Biblical Interpretation Necessary? Contents 2. Text and the Process of Communication 3. Early Biblical Interpretation 4. Hearing and Seeing the Word of God 5. The Various Senses of the Bible 6. Philosphical and Theological Hermeneutics 7. DEI VERBUM - Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation 8. The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church 9. Benedict XVI Verbum Domini 10. Exegetical Methods and Approaches 11. Finality of Revelation Hermeneutics 1. Interpretation by speech itself: incapacity of human language to express God’s mind 2. Interpretation through the translation: 3. Interpretation by commentary and explanation: 4. Exegesis: Greek verb Exegeomai means to draw out, to develop, to explain. Why is Biblical Interpretation Necessary? The Bible was originally written to people who lived in a different place, in a very different culture, Because the Bible is God’s word in history revealed to people The goal of interpretation is to discover the original intended meaning of a passage The key to doing good exegesis is reading the text very carefully The Present Need of Biblical Interpretation and the Problems 1. Mythical Language 2. Contradictions and Repetitions in Biblical Accounts: i) In Gen 1:1-1:2:4a (P) and 2:4b-25 (J) ii) In the floor stories (Gen 6-9) 3. The Problem of Religious Language 4. There are Obscure and Difficult Passages in the Bible Text and the Process of Communication Identification of Literary Genre Historical Narratives Poetry and Songs Legal Writings Wisdom/Wise Sayings Prophecy Teachings of Jesus Parables Letters Apocalypse Observation 1. Historical Context 2.
  • Unit 1: God Give Us His Word - I Old Testament (10 Lessons)

    Unit 1: God Give Us His Word - I Old Testament (10 Lessons)

    + UNIT 1: GOD GIVE US HIS WORD - I OLD TESTAMENT (10 LESSONS) Introduction: This unit is the place in the curriculum where the students learn the overarching themes and the mainline subjects of the Bible. It is the study of the holy books, their writers, the main themes and persons. Because of the intellectual characteristics of this age, this big task should be broken onto smaller objectives. In each lesson the students should work in groups to study and construct genealogy lines, maps, history line as well as search for archeological discoveries. The Students should get comfortable navigating through the books of the Bible and learn how to find verses. They also will learn to find Christ and the church in the Old Testament. 1. introduction to the journey: definitions and overview 2. BIBLE: The 5 books of Moses- Pentateuch 1: Genesis 3. BIBLE: THE 5 BOOKS OF MOSES 2: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy 4. Books of history 1: Joshua, Judges, Ruth 5. Books of history 2: 1,2 Samuel, 1 kings, 1 & 2Chronicles 6. Books of history 3: 2nd Chronicles, 1st & 2nd Kings 7. Books of history 4: Post Exilic books of Esther, Ezra, , Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith 1st & 2nd Maccabees 8. Prophets Before and after the exile 9. Wisdom and Poetry books 10. Old Testament Review 1 Unit II: God gives us His Word Purpose: This unit is the place in the curriculum where the students learn the overarching themes and the mainline subjects of the Bible. It is the study of the holy books, their writers, the main themes and persons.
  • M. Renan and Scriptural Infallibility

    M. Renan and Scriptural Infallibility

    416 M. RENAN AND SCRIPTURAL INFALLIBILITY. lifted up for the labour which is prayer, and our poverty may come on us apace, and our want-the lack and destitu­ tion natural and inevitable to our sinking and neglected condition-may spring upon us like an armed man. S. Cox. M. RENAN AND SCRIPTURAL INFALLIBILITY. IN the touching and attractive Recollections of Childhood and Youth, in which M. Renan has taken the public into his confidence, one, and that perhaps the most important, passage seems to claim some notice in a Magazine intended to assist students of Scripture ; I mean the passage in which he sets forth the causes which brought about his separation from the Church which he so deeply loved and to which he clung as long as his conscience permitted him to do so. M. Renan distinctly states (p. 298 of the French edition) that it was not by any of the mysterious doctrines of the Catholic creed, such as the Trinity and the Incarnation, that he was driven to sever his connexion with organized Christianity : " Nothing that might be open to criticism in the policy and the spirit of the Church, whether in the past or in the present, made the least impression upon me. If I could have believed in the truth of Theology and the Bible, none of the doctrines of the Syllabus would have caused me the least trouble. My reasons were entirely philological and critical, and in no sense metaphysical, political, or moral." He then mentions as one of the insuperable difficulties which caused him to break with all the associations and prospects of his early life, the question of the contradictions between the fourth Gospel and the Synoptics; and he gives us to understand that, l.I.