We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death.
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Thanks to the restored gospel, we know our spirits lived before we were born into this mortal existence.
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.