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<div class="head">Redi-Answers on Mormon Doctrine</div>
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<div class="subhead">Pre-Existence</div>
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<P><b>THE CURRENT TEACHING OF THE MORMON CHURCH:</b></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Everyone pre-existed.</p></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<div class="center">"In the first stage, man was an eternally existent being termed an intelligence. In that sphere of existence each individual was naturally conscious…when we completed our work in that realm and were permitted to go forward in the eternal process of progression…The next realm where man dwelt was the spirit world."<br><br>The Gospel Through the Ages, Milton Hunter, Pg.127</div>
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<P><b>WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT PRE-EXISTING:</b></P>
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<P><B>1. ONLY CHRIST PRE-EXISTED, NOT MAN</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">Affirmed in the Old Testament</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Psa',2,7);">Psa 2:7</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">Confirmed by Christ…</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Jhn',8,58);">Jhn 8:58</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">Proclaimed by apostle</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Col',1,17);">Col 1:17</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>2. MAN WAS CREATED</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">Created by God.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'26-27');">Gen 1:26-27</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">Formed of dust</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',2,7);">Gen 2:7</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">First man of the earth</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,46);">1Cr 15:46</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>3. MAN's SPIRIT DID NOT ALWAYS EXIST</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">All things created by Jesus</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Col',1,16,17);">Col 1:16-17</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">Without him, nothing was made</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Jhn',1,3,4);">Jhn 1:3-4</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">Of him, through him, and to him all things were made</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',11,'34-36');">Rom 11:34-36</a></td></tr>
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<div class="cite2"><p class="bibliobox"><strong>Bibliographic Information:</strong><br>Author: Grieshaber, Erich and Jean Grieshaber<br>Title: "Pre-Existence"<br>Work: <em>Redi-Answers on Mormon Doctrine</em><br>Date Added: 1 Jul 2002</p></div>
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