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Whereas the study of Scripture will be a primary activity for the ELCA in the coming years as individuals and churches participate in “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible;” and
Whereas many will be unaware of the breadth of interpretive presuppositions active in academia, the church, and in popular literature, some of which subtly deny the historically accepted teachings of Scripture as confessed in the Lutheran tradition, and
Whereas Luther’s “plain reason” denies that two mutually contradictory understandings of a biblical text can both be valid interpretations of the text; therefore
Be it resolved that the _________ Synod reaffirm what the ELCA Constitution (C.2.03.) already states: “This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life,” a confession expressed also in the Epitome of the Formula of Concord, and grounded in the Scriptures themselves; and
Be it further resolved that the interpretation of Scripture in this Synod will conform to the carefully developed and time honored classical Lutheran understanding of Scripture as standing above any claims to direct knowledge of the will of God.