Gospel Principles Class Lesson 2 - Our Heavenly Family

We were all spirits in Heaven before we came here on earth. The basic foundation of us spirits is that we were intelligences. We all had different personalities and attributes and talents back then. God saw some great and noble spirits and had foreordained them to be rulers of his kingdom here on earth.

In the Grand Council on Heaven, God presented his plan for us. That he would help us become like him. Our progression as spirits can only go far. But to become like Him, we would have to follow his plan. The plan was that we would be sent here on earth to experience joy, sorrow, weaknesses for our own learning and good. Of course Father new that we would sin and we would need help to become clean and pure again to be worthy of his blessings and mercy and that we would be able to go back to his presence someday again. The Lord Jesus Christ was chosen to be our savior. To free us from the bondage of sins.

In order for us to have faith and not be influenced by our previous experience in the Council in Heaven, we have to pass through the veil of forgetfulness. This is the very reason why we should all start with faith, in getting to know our God. Through his gospel and love, we are able to recollect our experience back in Heaven. We understand the whole purpose of our existence and God's ultimate's goal - to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.