[DungeonMaster]

When you are born what happens?.. Your spirit inhabits flesh or... WHAT?.. When you(your body) dies the reverse happens.. right?

Certainly. The question we debated was if your spirit is created right before it is merged/assigned to the body or if it had existed forever. The bible doesn't say that it existed forever so there is no reason for me to think that.

He felt that Job 38: 21 "Do you know it, because you were born then, Or because the number of your days is great?"

proved that we are older than our bodies. I believe that it proves just the opposite. I tend to think that adding something that isn't stated is as evil as removing something that is there. Therefore if something isn't stated, it isn't true or it isn't the least bit important to the edification of the Church in the opinion of the Holy Spirit.

[hosepipe]

[ I tend to think that adding something that isn't stated is as evil as removing something that is there. Therefore if something isn't stated, it isn't true or it isn't the least bit important to the edification of the Church in the opinion of the Holy Spirit. ]

Looking at you waiting to see which one of us busts out laughing first.. after this statement..

[Elsie]

The question we debated was if your spirit is created right before it is merged/assigned to the body or if it had existed forever.

THIS is an LDS teaching. (It ain't found in the BoM, either!)