Basic Plan of Salvation Visual Aid

Heaven

We lived in heaven with God our Heavenly Father. We are His literal spirit children and He loves each of us. We learned from Him and grew to become more like Him. Heavenly Father had a big family council where He presented a plan for us to get a body and power like His. We call this plan the Plan of Salvation.

Earth

His plan provided a place called earth that was prepared for us to learn and grow. After the world was created, our first parents were placed on earth. They were given the ability to make choices. One choice they made caused birth and death to come to mankind; we call this choice the fall of man. This allowed us to come to earth and make choices of our own. Because of bad choices, called sin, we would not be able to return to live with God without His help.

Birth

Birth helps us become more like our Heavenly Father by receiving a body and learning how to use it. We would also have opportunities to gain experience using and refining godly attributes that we need to be able to return and live with Him. In the process of gaining a body we forgot our life before birth, allowing us to make our own choices.

Jesus

Jesus was chosen by God and born on earth with His power to save us from death and endless suffering which would come to us as a result of sin. He showed us what we need to do to overcome sin and death so we could return to live with God again. Jesus used God's power to redeem us from the fall; this is called the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Resurrection

Resurrection is the process which allows us to get our bodies back after death and brings us back to God to be judged by Him. Everyone who is born will be resurrected because of Jesus. He started the path back to heaven. If we use Jesus's power to overcome sin, we will be able to stay and live in heaven with God forever. This is called eternal life.