Redemption: The Harvest of Love
Richard G. Scott October 1990 Saturday Morning Session
One hundred and fifty years ago this week, the Lord revealed to His prophet Joseph Smith sublime doctrine concerning the sacred ordinance of baptism. That light came when other Christian churches taught that death irrevocably, eternally, determined the destiny of the soul. The baptized were rewarded with endless joy. All others faced eternal torment, without hope of redemption. The Lord’s revelation that baptism could be performed vicariously for the dead, through proper priesthood authority, preserved the justice of His statement, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).