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Perhaps the greatest foreordination—based on premortal faithfulness—is foreordination to lineage and family certain individuals come to earth through a designated channel, through a lineage that entitles them to remarkable blessings, but also through a lineage that carries with it burdens and responsibilities. As a people, therefore, we enjoy what my colleague Brent Top calls “a type of collective foreordination—a selection of spirits to form an entire favored group or lineage.” Yet, he adds, “although it is a collective foreordination it is nonetheless based on individual premortal faithfulness and spiritual capacity.” In the words of Elder Melvin J. Ballard, Israel is “a group of souls tested, tried, and proven before they were born into the world … Through this lineage were to come the true and tried souls that had demonstrated their righteousness in the spirit world before they came here.”Share
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