Definition of "preexistence" [preexistence]

• The condition of existing prior to the current time (noun)
• The existence of a soul in a previous embodiment (noun)

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• "Your link indicates that physical phenomenon can be cited to support the position that preexistence is a rational rather than a whimsical argument."
• "It is the place in which we come closest, in the Pauline corpus, to the idea of preexistence and incarnation."
• "Hogg and Shelley had been reading Plato and struggling with the idea of preexistence."