What I Believe

Hi, I'm Steve's wife. Here is what I believe:

1. God is my Heavenly Father. He is literally the Father of my spirit and the spirit of each person who lives on this earth; we are all spirit brothers and sisters.

2. We lived in Heaven with our Heavenly Father and our Heavenly Mother. Although we only had spirit bodies, our Heavenly Father and Mother each had a glorified soul--a spirit body and a physical body perfect, glorified and inseparably connected.

3. Our Heavenly Parents wanted us to be happy and have the same joys and blessings they have--they wanted us to have a physical body, and they wanted us to have the joy of being married and creating a family that would last forever. They wanted us to be creators and kings and queens like them.

4. To become like them, we would need to gain a physical body, and experience earth life with all its joys, trials, and heartaches. We would need to be tried and tested in order to see if we would be willing to keep His commandments in order to return and live with our Heavenly Parents again.
The problem with gaining earthly experience is that we would make mistakes and wrong choices--we would become unclean. No unclean thing can enter into the presence of God. By making any choice that was not correct, we would damn ourselves and not be able to return to His presence. But if we kept ourselves from ever doing anything wrong, we wouldn't be able to do anything right either; we'd never gain the experience needed to become like our Heavenly Parents. Either way, once we left our Heavenly Home, we wouldn't be able to return and become like our parents--to leave would be hopeless because we couldn't ever return home, but to stay would not fulfill the plan of our Eternal Parents for us to gain perfected bodies and have a family of our own.

5. Fortunately, our Heavenly Parents are prefect and all wise, all knowing, and all powerful. Our Heavenly Father Elohim selected His eldest Son, the Great Jehovah, even Jesus Christ, to come to Earth and live a perfect life. He commanded His Son to live a perfect life and to bear the sins, pains, transgressions, and sicknesses of all of His children who were willing to follow Him. Because of His love for His Father and for us, Jesus Christ accepted this commandment and chose to come to earth and bring all who are willing back into the presence of our Heavenly Father. We may not be completely clean, but through the perfect and clean life that Jesus Christ lived, we will have the ability to be made clean and pure through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. It is through the use of our choice--our agency if you will--that we are able to come to Christ and be saved. As He cleanses us through His atoning power, we can be washed clean and become born again.

6. Just as I believe in a loving God who is my Father, and Jesus Christ who was my elder Brother in my pre-earth life, but who now is my Savior, Redeemer and Lord, I also believe in the Holy Ghost. A Being who is under the direction of God the Father. He, the Holy Ghost, does not have a body of flesh and blood. He is a Spirit; as such, He has the ability to touch our hearts and bear witness of truth. He can bless us by comforting us, warning us, and bringing knowledge to our minds. Without Him, we would not have the full ability to know truth, or be able to follow Christ completely.

7. Not only do I believe in the Good, but I also believe in the evil that tries to lead us away from our Heavenly Parents. This great evil is known as Lucifer, the Son of the Morning--Satan. He was also with us in the beginning. He, too, was a spirit son of our Heavenly Parents. He rebelled and was cast out. He has lost the privilege of gaining a body or a family. He strives to make all people miserable like himself.

8. I believe that families are created of God and are the fundemental unit of society. Our Heavenly Father has made it possible, through the atonement of Jesus Christ, for our families to be united eternally--it doesn't just end at death. I know that through obedience to the covenants and promises I have made in the Lord's holy temple, I will be able to be with my husband and children forever--the relationships I cherish in this life can continue.

9. My statements of faith reflect my beliefs as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--yup, I'm a Mormon. Look at Mormon.org for more info. if you're interested.