Mormon Dilemma 414

23 October

Pre-existence of Mormonism

Improvement Era, Vol. 13, No. 1, November 1909, pg 80; “Adam, our great progenitor, “the first man,” was, like Christ, a pre-existent spirit, and like Christ he took upon him an appropriate body, the body of a man, and so became a “living soul.” The doctrine of the pre-existence,— revealed so plainly, particularly in latter days, pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man’s origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality. It teaches that all men existed in the spirit before any man existed in the flesh, and that all who have inhabited the earth since Adam have taken bodies and become souls in like manner.” – Joseph Fielding Smith

http://ia600706.us.archive.org/3/items/improvementera1301unse/improvementera1301unse.pdf#page=75

1 Corinthians 15:45-47; “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”

The passage from Paul is pretty clear. We weren’t spiritual beings first and then created as physical beings second. 

Once again, Joseph Smith has taken another teaching from the Bible and turned it on its proverbial head.

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