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“Sins are remitted not in the waters of baptism, as we say…

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WORDS TO REMEMBER

Quote by Bruce R. McConkie

Bruce R. McConkie

“Sins are remitted not in the waters of baptism, as we say in speaking figuratively, but when we receive the Holy Ghost. It is the Holy Spirit of God that erases carnality and brings us into a state of righteousness. We become clean when we actually receive the fellowship and companionship of the Holy Ghost. It is then that sin and dross and evil are burned out of our souls as though by fire.”

Source: A New Witness for the Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 290

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