“Names of the Righteous … Written in the Book of Life”
The book of life, or Lamb’s book of Life, is the record kept in heaven which contains the names of the faithful and an account of their righteous covenants and deed& (D&C 128:6-7; Psalms 69:28; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 21:27.) The book of life is the book containing the names of those who shall inherit eternal life; it is the book of eternal life. (Daniel 12:1-4; Hebrews 12:23; D&C 76:68; D&C 132:19.) It is ’the book of the names of the sanctified, even them of the celestial world.’ (D&C 88:2.) Names of faithful saints are recorded in the book of life while they are yet in mortality. (Luke 10:20; Philippians 4:3; Teaching, p. 9.) But those names are blotted out in the event of wickedness. (Revelation 13:8; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 22:19.) (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 97.)
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