Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position 
of the Missouri Synod.[Adopted 1932]
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, N.D.) Pt. 5 

Of Redemption

8. We teach that in the fulness of time the eternal Son of God was 
made man by assuming, from the Virgin Mary through the operation 
of the Holy Ghost, a human nature like unto ours, yet without sin, 
and receiving it unto His divine person. Jesus Christ is therefore 
``true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true 
man, born of the Virgin Mary,'' true God and true man in one 
undivided and indivisible person. The purpose of this miraculous 
incarnation of the Son of God was that He might become the 
Mediator between God and men, both fulfilling the divine Law and 
suffering and dying in the place of mankind. In this manner God 
reconciled the whole sinful world unto Himself, Gal. 4:4, 5; 3:13; 
2 Cor. 5:18, 19.

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