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What if There Were No Christ? I once heard President David O. McKay say, “If Shakespeare were to come into the room we would all stand up, but if Jesus came in, we would kneel down and worship him.” That categorizes the special and exalted role of our Savior. Isaiah said, “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isa. 9:2; or 2 Ne. 19:2). What if there had been no Jesus, no Savior, no redemption? What would have been our fate? Could we have saved ourselves? We seem to be quite clear in our understanding that without Jesus there would have been no resurrection of the body from the dead, but what of our spirits? What would have become of our spirits if there had been no atonement by the Lord Jesus Christ? We find an answer to this in 2 Ne. 9:6-9 … In no other place is it stated so clearly. Thus we realize that we would have been doomed to a life of misery, no matter what else we may have done. Because of the Fall of Adam, a broken law would have prevented every son and daughter of Adam and Eve from escaping damnation.Share
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