So... what if everyone that believes in Theistic Evolution, etc... is deceived...

[matthewgar]

"from one man he made every nation of men"



On the one man quote there, wouldn't abraham possibly fit better, or even Noah since many of the nations acording to the bible come from his son, each one repersenting a different group?

 

[Harry3142]

I've seen this arguments posited in a different form. The laity was being taught:

1. unless they believed in a literal 24-hour a day creation they could not earn their salvation.

2. Unless they believed in a literal Great Flood they could not earn their salvation.

3. Unless they believed in a literal Tower of Babel they could not earn their salvation.

4. Unless they believed that all Africans are the 'sons of Ham', and therefore cursed, they could not earn their salvation.

This is not a theory as to what might happen; it has already occurred. Once you start requiring that certain dogmas must be accepted as fact in addition to the teaching of Jesus' expiatory sacrifice, you can find yourself on a very slippery slope very quickly without ever knowing how you got there.