Is the plan of salvation attested in the scrolls?
Responding to this same question, Brigham Young University professor Dana M. Pike discussed possible parallels between Latter-day Saint doctrine concerning the plan of salvation and the beliefs set forth in the nonbiblical scrolls. Pike cautiously concludes that a “clear or comprehensive understanding of this plan is not evidenced at Qumran.” Continuing, he notes: “Though there are concepts that I have described as corrupted echoes of true doctrines, there are simply too many key points of the plan of salvation absent from the preserved texts.
