The First Estate of Your Body

For awhile I have been dissatisfied with the conventional LDS schematic for the plan of salvation.  It’s missing the stage of bodily innocence.  In time (and in the temple) that’s Eden.  In our lives its childhood. Christ’s commandments to become as a little child and the temple both tell us that this is an important stage.  So important that many many souls are allowed to skip their mortal existence as adults, but are not allowed to skip being a child.

I now see that if we take the ‘premortal existence’ to mean our existence before we are accountable mortals, our schematic does account for the stage of innocence in the body.  The pre-earth life is the pre-existence of the spirit, and childhood is the pre-existence of the body and soul.

Ideally the pre-earth life ends with a decision to go down into death, and ideally so does the pre-adult life into the waters of baptism.