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| − | ==Question: Did the Church repudiate the idea of neutrality in the "war in heaven?"==
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| − | ===President Kimball was reported as repudiating this idea following the 1978 revelation===
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| − | Some members and leaders explained the ban as congruent with the justice of God by suggesting that those who were denied the priesthood had done something in the pre-mortal life to deny themselves the priesthood. President Kimball was reported as repudiating this idea following the 1978 revelation:
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| − | President Kimball "flatly [stated] that Mormonism no longer holds to...a theory" that Blacks had been denied the priesthood "because they somehow failed God during their pre-existence." <ref>Kimball, ''Lengthen Your Stride'', chapter 24, page 3; citing Richard Ostling, "Mormonism Enters a New Era," ''Time'' (7 August 1978): 55. Ostling told President Kimball's biographer and son that this was a paraphrase, but an accurate reporting of what he had been told (see footnote 13, citing interview on 10 May 2001).</ref>
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| − | ===Modern Church leaders teach that everyone who came to earth in this day was "valiant" in the premortal existence===
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| − | Elder M. Russell Ballard, talking of today's youth, said in 2005:
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| − | Remind them that they are here at this particular time in the history of the world, with the fulness of the gospel at their fingertips, because they made valiant choices in the premortal existence. <ref>M. Russell Ballard, "One More," ''Ensign'', May 2005, p. 69.</ref>
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