To paraphrase Abinadi:
Salvation doth not come by the Church alone; and were it not for the atonement given by the grace of God as a free gift, all men must unavoidably perish, and this notwithstanding the Church and all that appertains to it. (What Think Ye of Salvation by Grace?“ p. 48.)”
“Doth Salvation Come by the Law of Moses?”
Having quoted this verse, Elder Bruce R. McConkie said: “After teaching them some of the great truths of salvation, Abinadi answered his own question: ’Salvation cloth not come by the law alone, ’ he said; I and were it not for the atonement, which God himself shall make for the sins and iniquities of his people, that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding the law of Moses.’ (Mosiah 13:28.) Salvation is not in works-not even in those revealed of God-but in Christ and his atonement.”
“Doth Salvation Come by the Law of Moses?”
As stated in volume I of this commentary (commentary on 2 Nephi 25:24): “The Nephites lived the law of Moses in the sense that they obeyed the endless ethical laws and abided by the myriad moral restrictions (Promised Messiah, p. 427).... They observed the law of animal sacrifice. But theirs was not a Levitical lifestyle; they had the higher priesthood and the everlasting gospel. Their vision was more keen than that of their Old World kinsmen they were able to recognize the person and powers and religion of Christ the Lord behind the ritual of the preparatory gospel.”