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| Creation
Accounts |
| ".... Latter-day Saints understand that Jesus Christ, acting under the direction of God the Father, created this and other worlds to
make possible the immortality and eternal life of human beings who already existed as
spirit children of the Father." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| Animals |
| "Latter-day Saints believe that animals, like humans, have spirits, in the form of their bodies."
Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| Earth |
| "Latter-day Saints believe that God created this earth to provide his
children, the human race, with the opportunity to receive
physical bodies and to hear and accept his gospel that they might be prepared for life
with him on a celestialized earth hereafter." Encyclopedia of
Mormonism |
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| Mankind |
| "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints views
all descendants of Adam and Eve as the children of God—not in an abstract or
metaphorical sense, but as actual spirit offspring of God the Father and a Mother in
Heaven. This basic premise has profound implications for the LDS understanding of what
human beings are, why they are here on earth, and what they can become." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism |
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| Matter |
| "These are key statements: "The elements are eternal"
(D&C 93:33). "The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity,
and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal; and earth, water, etc.,
had their existence in an elementary state, from eternity" (Joseph Smith, in HC
3:387)." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| Origin of Man |
| "The clearest presentation of the Church position may be a 1909
statement by the First Presidency entitled "The Origin of Man," where four
essential points are made: (1) God created humans (Gen. 1:27-28); (2) God created Adam,
"the origin of the human family" and "the first man"; (3) creation was
sequential: first spiritual, later physical; and (4) each human body displays the
characteristics of the individual premortal spirit that inhabits it." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism |
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| Worlds |
| "Latter-day Saint prophets and scripture teach that other worlds similar
to this earth have been and will be created and inhabited in fulfillment of God's eternal
designs for his children." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| The Atonement |
| At October 1996 General Conference, Elder Russell M. Nelson explains the
interrelationship between the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. |
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| Evolution |
| "TThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, basing its belief
on divine revelation, ancient and modern,
declares man to be the direct and lineal offspring of Deity…. Man is the child of
God, formed in the divine image and endowed with divine attributes." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism |
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| Kolob |
| "Kolob means "the first creation." It is the name of the
planet "nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God." Elder Bruce R.
McConkie |
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| (See Basic Beliefs home page; Doctrines of the Gospel home page) |
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