Elder Bruce R. McConkie, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased), said:
Creation is the father to the Fall; and by the Fall came mortality and death; and by Christ came immortality and eternal life. If there had been no fall of Adam, by which cometh death, there could have been no atonement of Christ, by which cometh life.
And now, as pertaining to this perfect atonement, wrought by the shedding of the blood of God, I testify that it took place in Gethsemane and at Golgotha; and as pertaining to Jesus Christ, I testify that he is the son of the Living God and was crucified for the sins of the world. He is our Lord and our God and our King. This I know of myself, independent of any other person. I am one of His witnesses, and in a coming day shall feel the nail marks in His hands and in His feet and shall wet His feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better than than I know now that He is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer. and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.
God grant that all of us may walk in the light as God our Father is in the light so that, according to the promises, the blood of Jesus Christ his Son will cleanse us from all sin.
Bruce R. McConkie, Quoted from ‘The Gift of the Atonement’ Favorite Writings on the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002), 67
