Did we exist before we were conceived?

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Ah the blessed “time” before this constant well of problems and disappointments called life happens. No fear of hell, no torment, no unanswered prayer to a silent God. But out of God’s awesome love, here I am!
 
Angels_Unaware said:
This is completely untrue. Believing our souls existed prior to conception is not a “Mormon belief”, and there is no definite Catholic teaching that addresses the question.

It is simply unknown! There is not a thing wrong with believing that our immortal souls were created at the beginning of time with God, and not at the time of our conception. There is also not a thing wrong with believing God creates our soul at the time of conception. We simply don’t know!
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Actually there IS a definite Church teaching that addresses the question. I asked a similar question in Ask an Apologist on May 30th:

Was Mary Pre-Incarnate, that is, did she exist in spirit before she was Immaculately Conceived? A friend told me it was in the Catechism, and that we all exist as spirits before our bodies are conceived, but I can’t find it and just does sound right to me. Can you help?
Mary Ellen, toc

Here is the answer from Fr. Vincent Serpa (my emphasis added)

Hi,

That is not a teaching of the Catholic Church. **The Church teaches that the soul is directly created at the time of conception **as in Gen. 2:7 (Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 362, 363, 364, 365). Mary was fully human and in this she was no exception.

Fr, Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
This thread is years old. We are not supposed to resurrect old threads but rather start a new one even if the topic is the same.
 
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