BYU PROFESSOR DR. HUGH NIBLEY AND THE BOOK OF MORMON

"We have in writing…a most choice document. It is not like any other book in existence. It's not like anything else. It is a standing revelation, a standing miracle as we have it. No one could have produced this book of a thousand years, covering every phase of the cultural, historical, intellectual, and literary aspects. What a miracle of condensing. It is not just written as a tour de force to show it can be done. Every word of it is significant.

It's meant for us, it's directed to us, and it's very urgent that we know this. 'This is directed to you, ye Gentiles, that ye may learn to be wiser than we have been.' We are in a very powerless state and we are told (about) it in the Book of Mormon. If you start to panic, grab the Book of Mormon and it will be all right.

It tells us in the Book of Mosiah, Chapter 4, verses 11 and 12:

11. And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of His goodness and have tasted of His love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness…

(That is, as compared to God), (D&C 18 says, the worth of souls is great in the sight of God), …and his goodness and long-suffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel.

12. And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of Him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true.

You will have nothing to worry about it you realize God's greatness, what his intentions are and what his power to carry out those intentions is. Don't worry about yourself - your career and all that sort of rot.

Remember, we should always hold in remembrance our own nothingness. I remember my nothingness, so I don't have anything to worry about. And then I remember God's goodness and I have something to cheer about. So it's quite marvelous, this Book of Mormon. It has everything in it which we hope to find out."