JFS explains that spirits of animals were created spiritually long before the physical creation.

Date
1956
Type
Book
Source
Joseph Fielding Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Joseph F. Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1956), 1:47

Scribe/Publisher
Bookcraft
People
Joseph Fielding Smith
Audience
Reading Public, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

This being true, then man, animals, and plants were not created in the spirit at the time of the creation of the earth, but long before.

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