Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position 
of the Missouri Synod. [Adopted 1932]
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, N.D.) Pt. 2 

Of God

4. On the basis of the Holy Scriptures we teach the sublime 
article of the Holy Trinity; that is, we teach that the one true 
God, Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:4, is the Father and the Son and the Holy 
Ghost, three distinct persons, but of one and the same divine 
essence, equal in power, equal in eternity, equal in majesty, 
because each person possesses the one divine essence entire, Col. 
2:9, Matt. 28:19. We hold that all teachers and communions that 
deny the doctrine of the Holy Trinity are outside the pale of the 
Christian Church. The Triune God is the God who is gracious to 
man, John 3:16- 18, 1 Cor. 12:3. Since the Fall, no man can 
believe in the ``fatherhood'' of God except he believe in the 
eternal Son of God, who became man and reconciled us to God by His 
vicarious satisfaction, 1 John 2:23; John 14:6. Hence we warn 
against Unitarianism, which in our country has to a great extent 
impenetrated the sects and is being spread particularly also 
through the influence of the lodges.

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