Joseph Fielding Smith teaches that children who die in mortality will be raised as children in the Millennium and grow up to adulthood.
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- Book
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1955), 2:56
- Scribe/Publisher
- Bookcraft
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
CHILDREN IN THE RESURRECTION. When a baby dies, it goes back into the spirit world, and the spirit assumes its natural form as an adult, for we were all adults before we were born.
When a child is raised in the resurrection, the spirit will enter the body and the body will be the same size as it was when the child died. It will then grow after the resurrection to full maturity to conform to the size of the spirit.
If parents are righteous, they will have their children after the resurrection. Little children who die, whose parents are not worthy of an exaltation, will be adopted into the families of those who are worthy.
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