The Eternal Human : Life Before Birth, Life After Death, and the Mormon Promise of Becoming Like God
Overview
If you live forever, will you still be you?
We hope to recognize the people we love beyond death. We hope our unfinished lives can find fulfillment. And we wonder how much we can change without losing ourselves.
The Eternal Human explores one of the boldest ideas of the Mormon Restoration: that our story reaches beyond birth and our future includes the possibility of becoming like God.
Drawing on Restoration scripture, the teachings of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and the writings of Ogden Kraut, Ryan Mercer follows the human journey through premortal existence, embodied life, death, resurrection, and eternal progression. Along the way, he takes familiar beliefs seriously enough to ask their hardest questions:
- If intelligence is eternal, what does it mean to be a child of God?
- What happens to our individuality, memories, and relationships after death?
- How do children who die and lives left painfully unfinished fit within an eternal future?
- Can we become like God and remain ourselves?
- If perfection is possible, can growth continue forever?
Mercer brings careful attention to historical sources and compassion to the human questions beneath them. He examines disagreements within the tradition, distinguishes recorded teachings from later interpretations, and makes room for hope where certainty remains beyond reach.
For Latter-day Saints, readers of Mormon history and theology, and anyone drawn to questions of identity and eternity, The Eternal Human offers a thoughtful exploration of who we have been and who we might become.
If every person has an eternal future, every person matters now.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798165318627
- ISBN-10: 9798165318627
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.31 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.44 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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