Alma explained to his son Corianton that “all mankind were fallen, and they were in the grasp of justice: yea, the, justice of God, which consigned them forever to be cut off from his presence. And now, the plan of mercy Could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.” (Alma 42:14-15.)
In a modern revelation we hear these tender words: “Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father who is pleading your cause before him- saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified; wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life” (D&C 45:3-5). Indeed, herein is manifest the grand miracle of the ages, the miracle of forgiveness, the wondrous act by which a tattered and tainted soul I made pure and whole through the renovating powers of the Holy One of Israel.