GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Salvation
See also Atone, Atonement; Death, Physical; Death, Spiritual; Exaltation; Grace; Jesus Christ; Plan of Redemption; Redeem, Redeemed, Redemption

To be saved from both physical and spiritual death. All people will be saved from physical death by the grace of God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Each individual can also be saved from spiritual death as well by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is manifested in a life of obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel and service to Christ.

The Lord is my light and my salvation, Ps. 27: 1. He only is my rock and my salvation, Ps. 62: 2. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation, Rom. 1: 16 (D&C 68: 4). Work out your own salvation with fear, Philip. 2: 12. God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification, 2 Thes. 2: 13. Salvation is free, 2 Ne. 2: 4. There is no gift greater than the gift of salvation, D&C 6: 13. Jesus Christ is the only name whereby salvation shall come, Moses 6: 52 (Acts 4: 10-12). We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, A of F 1: 3.

Salvation of children: Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, Matt. 18: 3. Little children also have eternal life, Mosiah 15: 25. Infant baptism is an abomination, and little children are alive in Christ because of the Atonement, Moro. 8: 8-24. Little children are redeemed through the Only Begotten; Satan cannot tempt them, D&C 29: 46-47. Children are to be taught the gospel and baptized when eight years old, D&C 68: 25-28. Little children are sanctified through Jesus Christ, D&C 74: 7. Men become again, in their infant state, innocent, D&C 93: 38. All children who die before the age of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom, D&C 137: 10. Children are whole from the foundation of the world, Moses 6: 54.