“Being from Everlasting to Everlasting”
Our God, the Almighty Elohim who is our Father in Heaven, is a man, a glorified man, an exalted Man, of Holiness. Joseph Smith explained in his famous King Follett sermon that that being whom we now worship was once a mortal man who dwelt on an earth, even as we do now (see Teachings, pp. 345-46). How, then, can he be “from everlasting to everlasting” or “from eternity to eternity”? Simply stated, this means “from the spirit existence through the probation which we are in, and then back again to the eternal existence which will follow.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 1:12; see also Bruce R. McConkie, Promised Messiah, p. 166.)
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