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title: 'T.V. Moore on the Essential Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race'
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author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-09-01
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-t-v-moore-on-the-essential-doctrine-of-the-unity-of-the-human-race
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# T.V. Moore on the Essential Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race

“Paul deems it essential to Christianity to assert that the unity of the divine involved the unity of the human, that the oneness of the source from which the race of man came forth, found its proper counterpart in the oneness of that race itself, and that the ethnological distribution of that race was not a matter of random chance, but of specific divine appointment and direction. ‘God that made the world and all things therein hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation.’ Acts xvii. 26. Here then in the very first encounter of Christianity with human philosophy, its greatest expounder asserts as essential doctrines in its teachings, that all men have been derived from a single source, having a unity of blood-relationship, which implies a unity of origin; and that the geographical distribution of the various nations or families of men, and the epochs of their history, are not matters of chance, or undirected general law, but of specific divine appointment.” — [**T.V. Moore**](/authors/thomas-verner-moore), *The Ethnological Objection: The Unity of the Human Race* in *Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity* (1852), p. 413