What fearless joy belongs to expectant parents who realize something of the spiritual preexistence of man! Instead of fretting over such mortal questions as "Will our baby be normal?" they spend the waiting period in grateful, prayerful acknowledgment of the child's eternal perfection as the spiritual image and likeness of his Father-Mother God. The mortal misconception of man as a material germination derived through theories of human conception, genetics, prenatal environment, chance, and so forth, can cause no alarm to parents who understand something of God and His man. They know that in reality a child is not a material germination, beginning, maturing, declining, and dying, but instead an eternal, spiritual emanation of God Himself.
Man coexists with God and expresses His qualities. So what is true of spiritual qualities, such as wisdom, purity, and love, is true of man. The Bible presents divine wisdom as declaring: "Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: ... when he appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him." Prov. 8:25, 29, 30.
Man coexisting with God, Spirit, must necessarily preexist the mistaken, inverted, mortal view of conception and birth. Man has always existed with God as His complete spiritual likeness. Thus the illusive, contradictory claims of the birth process are too late to be true. Man was—and is—already one with God. "Before Abraham was, I am," John 8:58. explained Christ Jesus.
