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When King Benjamin taught his people concerning their fallen mortal condition, they “viewed themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth.” With like understanding, Mormon exclaimed: “O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth.” These statements do not indicate that the Nephites considered man to be of little value, but they reflect the understanding of their prophets that without Christ man is nothing. For without mercy and power of the great Redeemer, no truth, light, life, or goodness could be given to man in his fallen state. King Benjamin thus observed that “the knowledge of the goodness of God” had awakened in his people a sense of their “nothingness” and of their “worthless and fallen state.”Share
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