Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: “Belief brings salvation and belief brings damnation. Men are saved or damned, depending upon what they believe. If they believe in Christ and his saving truths, they are heirs of salvation. If they believe in a false system of salvation, they will be damned.
It is one thing to worship the living Lord and quite another to worship dead deities that have been graven by art and man’s device.” (New Witness, p. 23.) It is one thing to accept Christ as our Savior and quite another to accept him as our Lord and Master. The former is to profess the acceptance of the blessings of salvation, the latter to assume the burdens of discipleship, of submitting ourselves to his guidance and Lordship. In the present text, salvation is inextricably woven into the acceptance of the doctrine of Christ’s divine sonship.