What does Abinadi intend for us to understand about redemption?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Redemption, in its highest sense, consists in being delivered from death and sin and inheriting exaltation in the celestial kingdom. While salvation is made available to the penitent and the obedient, ‘the wicked remain as though there had been no redemption made, except it be the loosing of the bands of death’ (Alma 11:41); that is, the wicked are redeemed only in the sense that they are delivered from hell, eventually escape the perils of the second death, and come forth to a kingdom of glory in the resurrection” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 2:240).

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