“Nephi and his fellow prophets knew that salvation was not in the law, but they also understood the importance of obeying it in order to realize the full benefit of Christ’s earthly mission to fulfill it, wherein salvation did come. The first law of heaven is obedience, and every dispensation of truth has required such. Certainly the fulness of the gospel requires commandment-keeping every bit as much as the lesser law of Moses … .
“In fact, the Book of Mormon does more to bridge dispensations and put the law of Moses in its true perspective—that is, to clarify and emphasize its relationship to the gospel of Jesus Christ—than any other book available” (Holland, Christ and the New Covenant, 139–40).