Responding to a call for military service is one appropriate manner of fulfilling this duty of citizenship. Agency is man's innate power to choose between alternative commitments and finally between whole ways of life. Opposition is the framework within which these choices and their consequences are possible. It is redemption from the bondage of sin and death, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ . Latter-day Saint scriptures mention several factors that make sanctification possible.
Spirits are intelligent, self-existent, organized matter and are governed by eternal laws.
Moreover, all living things had a pre-earthly spirit existence. Spiritualism Spiritualism is against the teachings of the Church. In their teaching there is little of asceticism, mortification, or negative spirituality. But when suffering is unavoidable in the fulfillment of life's missions, one's challenge is to draw upon all the resources of one's soul and endure faithfully and well. The power to think is an inheritance which all men receive because they are the spirit children of an Omnipotent Father.