Translation (Mormon)

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Among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, translation refers to being physically changed by God from a mortal human being to an immortal human being. A translated person is akin to a resurrected person with the exception that translated people did not die first. Both translated and resurrected beings are eternally young and fit, not subject to illness or injury and spend their entire existences as ministering angels doing things that require physical bodies to perform. Where a ministering spirit can record events as a witness and offer comfort or advice, a physical being is required to perform ordinances such as laying on of hands. They can appear or disappear the way the resurrected Christ did in the 24th chapter of Luke.