Eternal Life
"Prophecies foretelling the life and mission of Jesus Christ promise us the deliverance that He will provide. His Atonement and Resurrection provide all of us an escape from physical death and, if we repent, an escape from spiritual death, bringing with it the blessings of eternal life."
—L. Tom Perry, "The Power of Deliverance", Liahona and Ensign, May 2012
Topics: Resurrection, Jesus Christ, Eternal Life"Prophecies foretelling the life and mission of Jesus Christ promise us the deliverance that He will provide. His Atonement and Resurrection provide all of us an escape from physical death and, if we repent, an escape from spiritual death, bringing with it the blessings of eternal life."
—L. Tom Perry, "The Power of Deliverance", Liahona and Ensign, May 2012
Topics: Resurrection, Jesus Christ, Eternal Life"Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is eternal life. It is that God’s children, in a covenant relationship with Him either by lineage or by adoption, will be able to dwell with Him and their families forever. That is God’s glory—eternal life for His children!"
—Russell M. Nelson, "Prophet, Apostles Speak at MTC Mission Presidents' Seminar", Church News and Events, June 29, 2012
Topics: Eternal Life"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
—John 11:25-26, New Testament
Topics: Resurrection, Jesus Christ, Eternal Life"I say unto you that this mortal body is raised to an immortal body, that is from death, even from the first death unto life, that they can die no more; their spirits uniting with their bodies, never to be divided; thus the whole becoming spiritual and immortal, that they can no more see corruption."
—Alma 11:45, Book of Mormon
Topics: Resurrection, Eternal Life"The day cometh that all shall rise from the dead and stand before God, and be judged according to their works. Now, there is a death which is called a temporal death; and the death of Christ shall loose the bands of this temporal death, that all shall be raised from this temporal death. The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God."
—Alma 11:41-43, Book of Mormon
Topics: Eternal Life, Resurrection, Judgment"For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another."
—Job 19:25-27, Old Testament
Topics: Eternal Life, Heavenly Father
