“O the Wisdom of God His Mercy and Grace!”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

And I heard a great voice, bearing record from heav’n, “He’s the Saviour, and only begotten of God—By him, of him, and through him, the worlds were all made, Even all that careen in the heavens so broad, Whose inhabitants too, from the first to the last,” Are sav’d by the very same Saviour of ours, And, of course, are begotten God’s daughters and sons, By the very same truths and the very same pow’rs.“ (Times and Seasons 4:82-83; italics added.)”

“The Wisdom of God His Mercy and Grace”

If the resurrection from the dead be not an important point, or item in our faith, Joseph Smith pointed out, “we must confess that we know nothing about it; for if there be no resurrection from the dead, then Christ has not risen; and if Christ has not risen He was not the Son of God; and if He was not he Son of God there is not nor cannot be a Son of God, if the present book called the Scriptures is true; because the time has gone by when, according to that book, He was to make His appearance … And if He has risen from the dead, He will by His power, bring all men to stand before Him; for if He has risen from the dead the bands of the temporal death are broken that the grave has no victory, if then, the grave has no victory, those who keep the sayings of Jesus and obey His teachings have not only a promise of a resurrection from the dead, but an assurance of being admitted into His glorious kingdom.” (Teachings, p. 62.)

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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