[imardmd1]

“Can a person come to the saving knowledge of Jesus through a lie?”

I think you've made your point. This rhetorical question is one which demands the answer, "No."

[ScubieNuc]

Actually, I believe you can. For example, growing up I was taught that the unsaved are tormented in Hell forever. Now, those that taught me that truly believed that, but that is a lie or falsehood.

Hell is the temporary place of the unsaved, but Hell is destroyed in the Lake of Fire along with death and the unsaved.

Revelation 20:14-15
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.