GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Gospel
See also Dispensation; Doctrine of Christ; Plan of Redemption

God's plan of salvation, made possible through the atonement of Jesus Christ. The gospel includes the eternal truths or laws, covenants, and ordinances needed for mankind to enter back into the presence of God. God restored the fulness of the gospel to the earth in the nineteenth century through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel, Mark 16: 15. The plain and precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb have been kept back, 1 Ne. 13: 32. This is my gospel, 3 Ne. 27: 13-21 (D&C 39: 6). The Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel, D&C 20: 8-9 (D&C 42: 12). This is the gospel, D&C 76: 40-43. The Melchizedek Priesthood administers the gospel, D&C 84: 19. Every man will hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, D&C 90: 11. The Son preached the gospel to the spirits of the dead, D&C 138: 18-21, 28-37. The gospel was preached from the beginning, Moses 5: 58. The first principles and ordinances of the gospel are described, A of F 1: 4.