Seven of Everything

President Monson stated in April 2016, "Our goal is to obtain celestial glory . " Those who have been baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are in the kingdom of God. We are in a portion of the kingdom of God that is here on earth. We are in a portion of the kingdom of God where we can have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. But this is not our goal. We look forward to a millennial time when we will live in that portion of the kingdom of God where Christ will reign personally upon the earth. But this is not our goal. Our goal is to obtain celestial glory which is to live in that portion of the kingdom of God where the Father reigns personally.

There are several verses in the scriptures which refer to being born again or being reborn, but many of those are assumed to be talking about a second spiritual birth after the first mortal birth here on earth. However, the phrase to be reborn or born again in and of itself does not put a number on the times that we have been born or the types of birth. This allows for the question, if mortal birth wasn't our first birth, is there evidence in scripture that we were born before our mortal birth? The answer is yes and here is one example: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again ( 1 Peter 1:3 ) To beget means to procreate or generate offspring as the father. Our mortal birth by God was a creation not a begetting. God did not beget our mortal body, our earthly fathers did. In this verse Peter is saying that God the Father has begotten them again, which requires that He has begotten them before. God the ...

There are a few places that teach us that we lived before we were born as taught in the Holy Bible. One of those places is an obscure reference: As Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents. ( John 9:1-3 ) If life before birth did not exist then part of this scenario makes sense: Master, ... did ... his parents [sin], that he was born blind? Jesus answered, ... his parents [hath not sinned that he was born blind]. I am confident that the apostles knew that God does not administer judgments or punishments before the offenses occur. It is reasonable to assume that they did not know if God would punish the parents through an affliction on their child. In this case at least, we know that this did not happen. However, if we omit this portion of the dialogue, we read it as follows: Master, ....