Restored authority key to harmony
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Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works.
— (Doctrine and Covenants 22:2.)
Speaking of the restored authority of the priesthood, then-Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve, now acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve, explained: "We would never hold that baptism is not essential, absolutely essential, for it constitutes the official enrollment in the Church and kingdom of God. If that key, however, is played alone, without the counterpart key of authority, the fullness and the harmony are gone and it becomes dissonant. And without the key of faith and of repentance, it is meaningless, and perhaps worse, it is counterfeit. This happens when the authority we speak of is lacking.
"Now we do not say they are wrong so much as we say they are incomplete. The fullness of the gospel has been restored. The power and the authority to act for Him is present with us. The power and the authority of the priesthood rests upon this Church."
