“The Nothingness of the Children of Men”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

Having had the vastness of God’s creations revealed to him, having obtained some sense of God’s glory and power, Moses declared: “Man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed.” As mortal men, we have every claim upon the virtue of humility. Nevertheless, when Satan sought to have Moses worship him, Moses, as a result of the same experience in which he had learned of his own nothingness, responded with the incredulous question, “Who are thou?” and then added, “I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten.” (Moses 1:10, 13.)

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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