Race specifically is named in the discussion of “the Orders” within the overall article on creation and sin. Here the authors say that “the Bible and confessions understand the human race as one united race in its origin and its final destination. . . . A human being is a human being, and this unity of the human race calls for our obedience. In the course of history this unity has unfolded as numerous tribes and peoples. But the modern concept of race is not found in either the Bible or the confessional writings” (388). A few sentences later, they write: “To speak of the Creator God, who made
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