Oddly this is not a new idea. Origen in the second century wrote that all souls were already created at the beginning and are simply waiting in a kind of kindergarten purgatory to be born.
Gets around the distasteful idea that a soul can be created by two teenagers in the back seat at a drive-in.
But modern science more or less proves the teenager concept to be the right one. Your mileage may vary. (Not mocking anyone’s sincerely held beliefs, just pointing out the irony).
Oddly this is not a new idea. Origen in the second century wrote that all souls were already created at the beginning and are simply waiting in a kind of kindergarten purgatory to be born.
Gets around the distasteful idea that a soul can be created by two teenagers in the back seat at a drive-in.
But modern science more or less proves the teenager concept to be the right one. Your mileage may vary. (Not mocking anyone’s sincerely held beliefs, just pointing out the irony).