Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s comments on this passage from Galatians also help to illuminate the meaning of the Savior’s warning to the Nephites: “That there is and can only be one gospel- one Church, one plan of salvation, one true religion- is as self-evident as any truth known to man. There can no more be two true gospels or two true churches than there can be two true and differing scientific facts.
Truth is truth. And truth and salvation and the gospel all are ordained of God. They are what they are; and they are not what they are not. Men either have the truths of salvation or they do not; they either possess the gospel, which is the plan of salvation, or they do not … .”
“Whoso Shall Declare More or Less Than This, and Establish It for My Doctrine, the Same Cometh of Evil”
After completing his sermon on what constitutes his doctrine and the means whereby salvation is attained, the Savior issued this sharp warning concerning those- either in the Church or without-who would seek to alter the teachings of Christ and declare such alterations as truth.
To the Galatian Saints, the Apostle Paul issued a similar caution:
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed front him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”
(Galatians 1:6-8.)