In the gospel of Jesus Christ the human family is at the pinnacle of dignity because the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve, were the direct and first-generation literal offspring of heavenly parents both in the spirit body and in the physical body. The human family is literally, in every sense, the offspring of God. This is according to divine law, for the scriptural accounts state that living things reproduce and bring forth “after their kind” and that the “seed could only bring forth the same in itself, after his kind” (see Abr. 4:11, 12, 21, 24-25). Mankind, both male and female, were created in the image and the likeness of the Gods (see Abr. 4:26-27).