I am the way, the truth, and the life, Jesus taught his disciples; “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). “If ye continue in my word,” he said on another occasion, “then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).
In a modern revelation that same Lord said: “I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed” (D&C 98:8). In and through Jesus Christ people are made free-free from sin, from ignorance, and ultimately from the effects of a fallen state and all the limitations of the flesh.
Christ comes, Lehi testified, to “redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon.” (2 Nephi 2:26.) Through the blessings of the Atonement, the obedient are free to enter the divine presence and partake fully of all that the Father has.