, or pre-mortal existence refers to the belief that each
individual human soul existed before conception , and at
conception (or later, depending on when it is believed that the
soul enters the body) one of these pre-existent souls enters, or
is placed by God , in the body This belief is held to a varying
degree in Abrahamic and other religions. Alternative positions
are traducianism , which both hold that the individual human
soul does not come into existence until conception. The
boundaries of the beforelife are debatable, since there is
controversy over when a human life formally begins. Pre-
existence in Christianity In Christianity, pre-existence is a
minority position contrasted with the more widely held concepts
of traducianism and creationism. The earliest surviving
Christian writings on the preexistence were from Origen. Origen
believed that the soul was assigned a body as a penalty for its
sin of looking downward toward the corrupt earth. He also taught
that Jesus Christ was actually born of the Fath