Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position 
of the Missouri Synod. [Adopted 1932]
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, N.D.) Pt. 3 

Of Creation

5. 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. 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.''

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