Were there peoples of the world that allowed to come to the American Continent even if they didn't know the true and living God? As I read the BofM it seems to teach that ONLY a righteous people would be allowed to inherit the Land of promise..
Ether 13:2
For behold, they rejected all the words of Ether; for he truly told them of all things, from the beginning of man; and that after the waters had receded from off the face of this land it became a choice land above all other lands, a chosen land of the Lord; wherefore the Lord would have that all men should serve him who dwell upon the face thereof
So did God bring to the land of promise a people that worshiped false gods (idols), a people that had never heard of the true God? That seems to be the new teaching of the LDS church saying that the Nephites, Lamanites and Jaredites are among the ancestors of the American Indians. If these people are not the only ancestors of the American Indians what other after the flood were allowed to enter this the Land of promise? After all only men that serve God would be allowed to dwell on the Land.. Were there a people that the world never knew that served the one true God that was allowed to enter the Land of Promise before the Jaredites or after the Nephites that met those requirements? Or is it instead proper to say that the Nephites, Lamanites and Jaredites ARE the ancestors of the American Indians. That God kept true to His teaching and allowed no other men to inherit this land other than those that should serve Him?
Is there a way to teach that the American Indians had pagan ancestors and stay true to what the text teaches as to who could inherit the Land of Promise? Please explain how the Nephites, Lamanites and Jaredites could only be among the ancestors of the American Indians in light of the requirement for the land to be reserved for a people that would serve God and not idols.. IHS jim