RESOLUTION 5-16

Overture 5-33 (CW, p. 356)

WHEREAS, The Synod has previously and consistently taught and affirmed a six-day creation; therefore be it

Resolved, That we reaffirm what the Synod has said in the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod (§ 5) adopted by the Synod in convention in 1932:

We teach that God has created heaven and earth, and that in the manner and in the space of time recorded in the Holy Scriptures, especially Gen. 1 and 2, namely, by His almighty creative word, and in six days. We reject every doctrine which denies or limits the work of creation as taught in Scripture. 1 In our days it is denied or limited by those who assert, ostensibly in deference to science, that the world came into existence through a process of evolution; that is, that it has, in immense periods of time, developed more or less of itself. Since no man was present when it pleased God to create the world, we must look for a reliable account of creation to God's own record, found in God's own book, the Bible. We accept God's own record with full confidence and confess with Luther's Catechism: "I believe that God has made me and all creatures.”