“He Shall Suffer and Die”
Alma then attests that all other doctrines of salvation grow out of the doctrine of Christ’s divine sonship. He cites the doctrines of atonement, resurrection, and judgment as natural appendages to the doctrine of divine sonship.
If Christ is literally the Son of the Eternal Father, he can work out an infinite and eternal atonement, he can lay down his life and take it up again, and by so doing he can lay claim to the right to sit in judgment upon all for whom he made that everlasting sacrifice. If, on the other hand, he is not the son of a mortal woman and an eternal and glorified Man, he is without the ability to take up his life again (for mortals have no such power). Thus there is no faith unto salvation save that faith which centers in Christ as God’s son.