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The eternal laws that the Lord will employ at the time of the Resurrection make it so that the body "shall be restored to proper and perfect frame." (Alma 40:23. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. The waiting period in paradise is temporary too. "It began with the fall of Adam it ended with the atonement of Jesus Christ. "The grip of physical death is temporary," he said. The spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace.' "Įlder Nelson said that some facetiously state that nothing is as permanent as death, but this is not true. are taken home to that God who gave them life. that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body. " 'Concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection - Behold, it has been made known unto me. "The first station in postmortal life is named paradise. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the. "Questions then come to searching minds of those left behind: 'Where is my loved one now?' 'What happens after death?' While many questions cannot be fully answered with available knowledge, much is known," he said. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruitsof them that slept. some of the foundational events of the Lords life, from His birth, to His triumph over Satans temptations.
He noted that scriptures teach that death is essential to happiness, as proclaimed in Alma 42:8: "Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness." (See also 2 Nephi 9:6.)Įlder Nelson said that mortality, temporary as it is, is terminated by the doors of death. (See 2 Corinthians 6:9.) As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven," Elder Nelson said. "Returning from earth to life in our heavenly home requires passage through - and not around - the doors of death. He quoted Alma 12:24, which describes mortality as a probationary state "a time to prepare to meet God." Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve said at the April 1992 general conference. "Life does not begin with birth, nor does it end with death," Elder Russell M.