Welcome back to Part 2 with Dr. Jared Halverson, Doctrine in Covenant Section 84.

How do we respond to our Protestant friends? We've grown up knowing about these ordinances, but some who look at that and say, ooh, that sounds like a work.

That sounds like you're discounting the Atonement of Christ. You think you have to do all this stuff.

Well, in some ways you have to do all this stuff.

Well, in some ways, you have to trace back, why is that such a concern for Protestantism?

To think about the history of the Reformation, if you're cutting yourselves off from Catholicism,

Martin Luther felt he had good reasons to do so. But as soon as you do that, you realize,

wait, am I sawing off the branch that I'm sitting on?

I'm not going to be connected to Catholic priesthood authority.

What's my basis then?

You're going to have to come up with something different.

In Protestantism's perspective, it was, well, it's going to be a priesthood of all believers.

Okay, where does that priesthood even come from?

We cannot trace our line of authority back. Again, we see it in Section 84. That's important. We see it in the Book of Ezra.

That's essential for the ancient Israelites. This unbroken chain, yet Protestant has to come up with

an alternative for them. It's going to be a biblical authority. There's a reason where they say solo scriptura and

sola Fides and sologracia, only scripture, only faith, only grace. It's because I can't lay claim to

anything outside of those things because we have protested against and left Catholicism. Again,

that's part of the beauty of the restored gospel, is there is this balance

between the two. We are saved by grace. And God asks us to accept priesthood ordinances to be able to

receive the kind of grace. This is a channel of grace, a conduit of grace. And that doesn't mean I'm

cut off from grace without them, but in terms of entering into a covenant relationship with him,

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