First Presidency writes: "We may say that there is no direct revelation upon the subject of when the spirit enters the body; it has always been a moot question. That there is life in the child before birth is an undoubted fact, but whether that life is the result of the affinity of the child in embryo with the life of its mother, or because the spirit has entered it remains an unsolved mystery."
at CONCEPTION
ReplyDeleteThe Church of Jesus Christ (WHQ: Monongahela, Pennsylvania), the true succession of the restored gospel, has always believed that the soul or spirit of man or woman is formed or created or breathed into the womb by the Lord at conception. Only the Lord Jesus Christ had a pre-mortal existence.
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