“Surely there is no salvation to be found in the worship of false gods. Certainly no benefit can accrue from spurious or delusive doctrine. Even that which is innocently ignorant is without the power to bless. Sincerity, however pure it may be, cannot remit sins, raise the dead, or create a celestial kingdom. … Christ addressed the issue in his intercessory prayer: ‘And this is life eternal,’ he said, ‘that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent’ (John 17:3). The bloodline must be pure—eternal life can only be the offspring of eternal truth” (McConkie, “Chosen Vessels and the Order of the Priesthood,” 179).