- Pre-existence,
premortal existence, beforelife, or life
before birth, is the
belief that each
individual human soul
existed before mortal conception,...
- The
concept of
premortal life in the
Latter Day
Saint movement is an
early and
fundamental doctrine which states that all
people existed as
spirit bodies...
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evidence of
righteousness (or lack thereof) in the
premortal existence.: 236 The
doctrine of
premortal existence is
described in the
Encyclopedia of Mormonism...
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further says that "gender is an
essential characteristic of
individual premortal, mortal, and
eternal identity and purpose," that the
father and mother...
- Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book. p. 343. Condie, Kent C. (Spring 2006). "
Premortal Spirits:
Implications for Cloning, Abortion, Evolution, and Extinction"...
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January 12, 2020.
Retrieved October 17, 2017. Brown, ****le O. (1992), "
Premortal Life", in Ludlow,
Daniel H. (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York:...
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church leaders taught that
Black people's
spirits were less
righteous in
premortal life (before birth).
Mormonism founder Joseph Smith and his successor...
- a hetero****ual marriage. LDS
Leaders teach that
gender is
defined in
premortal life,: 69–70 and that part of the
purpose of
mortal life is for men and...
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provided a
basis in text for the
practice of gathering, a p****able God,
premortal existence, and a text that was used to
justify a ban on
Black Latter-day...
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After his
death in 1844
other leaders taught it was also a
punishment for
premortal unrighteousness.
Since 2013, the
church has
officially disavowed these...
