Were Human Beings God’s Spirit Offspring in Heaven?
• Does the Bible teach that we are the literal offspring of heavenly parents? • How could spirits in heaven prepare themselves for their service on earth if during their earthly lives they remember nothing about their life in heaven? The Bible never explicitly says that human beings lived as spirits in heaven before their physical lives on earth. What the Bible does say supports the traditional Christian view that our existence begins here on earth. Consider the description of how God made the first man, Adam: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7). Notice that Genesis does not say that God placed an already existing individual spirit being into the physical body, but that he “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” This statement at least seems to be saying that this is how Adam came into being. The earlier passage about God creating human beings “in his image” (Gene
