Seven of Everything

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 b...

  "I lived in heaven a long time ago, it is true; Lived there and loved there with people I know. So did you. Then Heav’nly Father presented a beautiful plan, All about earth and eternal salvation for man." ( I Lived in Heaven ) When we lived in heaven, I imagine we were full of love and many, if not all, godly traits; we did live with God [Heavenly Father] after all. We had Him to emulate. But that wasn't good enough. God wanted us to have those traits engrained in every aspect of our beings, as He does, so they [the godly traits] would shine through in the hardest circumstances. So He sent us to earth to get a body, which was completely new to us, and we would be tried and tested to see if we could either keep those godly traits and characteristics or re-find them if we lost them. As we know, God our Father chose Jehovah, who was born as Jesus, to be a perfect example that we could both emulate here on earth and receive power from, to strengthen our ability to regain t...