Day 10-Atonement Insight

2 Nephi 31: 19-20 "And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow ^apath, I would ask if all is ^bdone? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken ^cfaith in him, ^drelying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to ^esave.

Wherefore, ye must press forward with a ^asteadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of ^bhope, and a ^clove of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and ^dendure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have ^eeternal life." Nephi taught once we enter the straight and narrow through baptism, we are not done. He continued to teach that we need to have unshaken faith and rely entirely on the atonement. It is only through the merits of Christ that we may be saved. It is interesting that Nephi discusses the first principles of the gospel which are Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Repentance. Then, he further discuses love of God and all men.