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| The Lutheran Confessions |
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| This congregation accepts and confesses without reservation all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the verbally inspired and inerrant written Word of God and the only rule and norm of faith and practice. We also believe and confess that the Symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church contained in the Book of Concord are a correct presentation and true exposition of Christian doctrine, drawn from, and in full agreement with, the Holy Scriptures. (standard article in Constitutions of Missouri-Synod congregations) Read them on-line: The Augsburg Confession The Defense of the Augsburg Confession The Large Catechism The Small Catechism (recommended as a good starting point) The Smalcald Articles Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope The Epitome of the Formula of Concord The Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord These texts are in the public domain and may be copied and distributed freely. The source of these translations is Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921). |
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