Heavenly Father Research Paper

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There once was a man named Thomas who like billions of others, was waiting for his chance to go to earth. Heavenly Father is creating man on Earth for the first time and Thomas was ready. The promised plan was for all of Heavenly Father’s spirit children to have a chance to go to Earth, receive mortal bodies, have agency to choose between right and wrong and be tested on Earth, and then return back to Heavenly Father when our time on Earth was over. But there was a catch. He said they wouldn’t remember anything due to a veil that was placed on their heads. They would remember nothing from this life while on Earth. He also said that not all of them would be in good circumstances and that life would be very hard. After someone dies, he would …show more content…
Thomas suggested that instead of having the choice of making good or bad choices, they should only have the option to make good choices and there would be no need for judgement. That way, everyone would return to Heavenly Father in the highest kingdom no matter what. But there was a catch to Thomas’s plan as well. Thomas said that he wanted all the glory and power instead of Heavenly Father. But Heavenly Father believed that everyone should be able to have their own agency and not be forced to make good choices on Earth. So Thomas and Heavenly Father agreed to let every spirit child choose if they wanted to follow Thomas’s or Heavenly Father’s plan. After the spirit children had chosen, one third of the billions of children had chosen Thomas’s plan. So Heavenly Father banned Thomas and all the spirit children who had chosen his plan to Outer Darkness where they would never receive mortal bodies and never be able to go to the Celestial Kingdom.
Soon after, Heavenly Father chose two spirit children to be the first to go to Earth. He sent a man named Joseph and a woman named Emma to start the human race and begin life on Earth. The veil was placed in their minds and they immediately forgot everything they knew. Heavenly Father sent them to Earth, and the plan

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