Abinadi’s purpose in this sermon, however, is to declare more than the unity of the Godhead; his is “the pronouncement of pronouncements, the doctrine of doctrines, the message of messages, which is that Christ is God. And if it were not so, he could not save us.” (Promised Messiah, p. 98.) That is, Abinadi is declaring the true doctrine of the Incarnation: he is teaching and testifying that God (Jehovah) will become a man (Jesus), that he who was the “Great Spirit” (see Alma 18:24-28) shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay (see Mosiah 3:5).