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==Pregunta: ¿Qué han dicho los líderes de los Santos de los Últimos Días sobre el método de procreación en la vida futura?==
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===Church leaders have said very little about this, because little is known about the process===

The fact that we do not know the exact process by which “spirit children” are created does not mean that LDS leaders have not speculated on the process. There are a few quotes that are often used to support the critics’ concept of “Celestial sex," which we will now examine:

====Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 387====
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"[I]ntelligence or spirit element became intelligences after the spirits were born as individual [spirit] entities."
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====Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', p. 750====
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"Our spirit bodies had their beginning in pre-existence when we were born as the spirit children of God our Father. Through that birth process spirit element was organized into intelligent entities."
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====Brigham Young,  ''Journal of Discourses'', vol. 11, 122====
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"[God] created man, as we create our children; for there is no other process of creation in heaven, on the earth, in the earth, or under the earth, or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be."
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====John A. Widtsoe, A Rational Theology, p. 69==== 
The author of the anti-Mormon book [[Becoming Gods|''Becoming Gods'']] says the following:
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"As for the sexual aspect of this event, LDS apostle John A. Widtsoe explained, 'Sex Among the Gods. Sex, which is indispensable on this earth for the perpetuation of the human race, is an eternal quality which has its equivalent everywhere.'" (p. 392, n14)
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Upon reading the quote above, it does indeed sound as if Widtsoe is talking about a “sex act” among gods. It must be noted, however, that Widtsoe referred to "sex" as a "quality" rather than a "practice." Of course, the fact that two genders exist at all implies that it somehow takes both to accomplish the creation of spirit children. Looking at Widtsoe’s quote in context, we learn that he is not speaking about the sex act, but about ''gender'':

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Sex Among the Gods. <br>
Sex, which is indispensable on this earth for the perpetuation of the human race, is an eternal quality which has its equivalent everywhere. It is indestructible. The relationship between men and women is eternal and must continue eternally. In accordance with Gospel philosophy there are males and females in heaven. Since we have a Father, who is our God, we must also have a mother, who possesses the attributes of Godhood. This simply carries onward the logic of things earthly, and conforms with the doctrine that whatever is on this earth is simply a representation of spiritual conditions of deeper meaning than we can here fathom.
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Would a “sex act” be considered a “quality” that was “indestructible?” Critics rely on contextual presentism by quoting the term "sex" without the context that makes its meaning clear.  It is more reasonable to consider “gender” a “quality” that is “indestructible.”  Consider the following quote from James E. Talmage. 
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“We affirm as reasonable, scriptural, and true, the eternity of sex among the children of God. The distinction between male and female is no condition peculiar to the relatively brief period of mortal life. It was an essential characteristic of our pre-existent condition, even as it shall continue after death, in both disembodied and resurrected states .... [The] scriptures attest a state of existence preceding mortality, in which the spirit children of God lived, doubtless with distinguishing characteristics, including the distinction of sex, "before they were [created] naturally upon the face of the earth." ("The Eternity of Sex," ''Millennial Star'' (24 August 1922): 530.)"
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Note the phrase “the distinction of sex.” Talmage is not talking about a “sex act,” but rather the distinction between the two sexes or genders.
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[[en:Question: What have Latter-day Saint leaders actually said about the method of procreation in the afterlife?]]