“Plan of Salvation”
Among the “plain and precious” things taken from the Old and New Testament records are references to a “plan” whereby men might obtain salvation. In his declaration that there is but “one Lord, one faith, [and] one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5) Paul alludes to the fact that there is and can be but one “plan of salvation.” Yet the Bible can be searched in vain for a direct reference to a divine plan which the children of God might follow in their quest to scale Mount Zion and find a place in the heavenly abode. By contrast, the Book of Mormon is replete with such phrases as “the merciful plan of the great Creator” (2 Nephi 9:6), “the plan of our God,” (2 Nephi 9:13), “the great and eternal plan of deliverance” (2 Nephi 11:5), “the plan of redemption” (Alma 22:13), the “plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8), and “the plan of mercy” (Alma 42:15).
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