Had there been no Christ, had Mary not brought forth the Father’s Only Begotten Son, had the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world not taken upon himself a body of flesh and blood, there could have been no redemption-no freeing of men from the dominion and power of Satan. Nor would there have been a breaking of the bands of death in a glorious resurrection. Adam and all of his children would have remained as if there had been no redemption made. They would have been as Jacob declared, “devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself” (2 Nephi 9:9).