2
Ne 9:25 where there is no law given there is no
punishment
Orson
F. Whitney
“What
is Sin? Sin is the transgression of divine law. A man sins when he violates his
conscience, going contrary to light and knowledge—not the light and knowledge
that comes from his neighbor, but that which has come to himself. He sins when
he does the opposite of what he knows to be right. Up to that point he only
blunders. One may suffer painful consequences for only blundering, but he
cannot commit sin unless he knows better than to do the thing in which the sin
consists.” (Cowley & Whitney on Doctrine, pp. 435-436 as taken from Latter-day
Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 119)