Excuse me Cofian!
Common sense we were spirits before we join with our body here on earth!
What goes on in your mind Cofian?
And yes Heavenly Father did BEGAT His ONLY BEGOTTEN Son Jesus Christ!
How many times need you say the same thing over and over let along in the same thread!
(a) Your Elohim has a body of flesh & bones, right? (Historic Christianity--no). (b) When you say any man is involved in a "literal paternity"--as McConkie said about the LDS Elohim, or rather than letting any other man do it--like Brigham said, then you are saying that a man had sexual intercourse to beget a child.
So A + B above set against LDS also saying Mary was a virgin, does not compute. You can't have a doctrine of literal procreation in heaven (spirit babies being born in heaven), literal procreation on earth, and Elohim having a literal flesh & bones body--not simply a spirit body--and then try to suddently spiritualize away the implications of words by Brigham, McConkie, and, I believe it was, Joseph Fielding Smith, without having folks draw conclusions that none of these prophets or leaders took any pains to leade readers to draw any different conclusion. Doctrine.
And "common sense" tells the Buddhists & Hindus & the New Agers they've all been here before.
So are you trying to claim that "common sense" makes reincarnation true?