We are all sons and daughters of God and because we are children of Heavenly Parents, we all have a touch of divinity within us.
We have been educated for eons of time before being born on this earth and we knew the purpose of this earth trial or test that we were going into and are now in.
Why are we here?
First, we are here to gain a physical body for our spirit. God made us as spirits in His image with arms, legs, feet, heart, lungs, head and a brain. This is how we are made in His image. Male and female are all the same generally with little differences.
There is gender here on earth and so it is also in Heaven. We all knew it when we were there and knew it would be the same on earth.
Second, we are to be tested on what we had learned in the Spirit World and have brought to earth within us and we are to continue use our Free Agency in choosing between good and evil here.
What we do here on earth, in our final test, will determine what our destiny will be in the eternities. There are No Retakes, No Reincarnation.
Our Eternal Potential.
The Spirit World was our First Estate and Earth life is our Second and last Estate of this testing period.
Because we are sons and daughters of Heavenly Parents, because they made our spirit bodies so we have the potential to be like Him.
This test was made to show the Father and to ourselves, if we are worthy to be allowed to continue on, after this life, and eventually become like our Heavenly Parents.
Our Earthly Potential.
We have the potential to be like our Earthly parents because we have the bodies that they made for us so we are part of them and we have their traits and have been taught by them.
So it is with our Heavenly parents.
To become like them is called Eternal Life and Exaltation.
Our Heavenly Father revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith what He had said to Moses, this is God speaking:
Moses 1:39
39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Immortality.
Immortality has been accomplished for every person on earth by the Atonement of His Son, Jesus Christ.
He had suffered for the sins of the world and has been resurrected.
All of us will be resurrected to Immortal Beings, including those who have been good and those who have been evil.
1 Corinthians 15: 40-42
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
This way, all of us will be able to stand before Jesus Christ at the Judgment Bar and answer for what we have done in the body and receive the consequences for our actions.
We will not be able to say the devil made me do it because we had our Free Agency. The devil cannot force us to do evil, only our own decision can do that.
All the devil and his angels can do is tempt us.
Eternal Life and Exaltation.
The Restored Gospel is the New and Everlasting Covenant.
Those who accept the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and are baptized into His church and follow His teachings will be qualified for the Celestial Kingdom.
If he follows His commandments and then qualifies to enter the Holy Temple with his companion, will be married for the time they will be on the earth, but also for all Eternity, which qualifies them for Eternal Life and Exaltation.
Eternal marriage qualifies the couple to continue to be married after death and be authorized in having spirit children of their own and to progress on into eternity as a family. They will be following in the footsteps of Heavenly Parents.
The Prophet Joseph Smith when talking about the principles of Exaltation said:
“But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil (death) before you have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world; it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 348)
Line upon line, little by little, we progress into eternity.
The Choices we make.
Our life is a series of choices.
Our lives are seldom determined by great, life altering decisions, but our lives are determined by the many small, day to day choices that track our path.
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