Mormons baptize the dead, right?

Answer 1

In a gruesome procedure, yes, Mormons do baptise the dead.

Answer 2

Yes, but it is called Baptism for the dead. They actually have members in their church look in the paper to see who has passed and then they take there name and look to see if they are already baptized in the Mormon religion, if they are not the name is set aside and sent to the nearest temple, and then when people are "called upon" by their bishop to go "baptize for the dead, they go to the temple and one person pretends that they are the "dead" person and someone else puts them under the water and says that they are now baptized. I think it is a great way to increase your membership. LOL So my question to the Mormons has always been: How many members do you have? How many are actually living? How many were dead when they became members? and how many of those people know that they are now Mormon? I think it is sad that they do this. I mean come on now if they wanted to be Mormon wouldn't they have done this when they were alive?

Answer 3

Yes
It's called posthumous baptism.
No physical remains are used so it is not gruesome.
They wish to have people admitted into paradise. Especially those people born befor 1823 When the prophet Joseph Smith received the Book of Mormon revelations form the angel Moroni. That is why they keep the largest collection of genealogical records in the World and scour the World for any such records that they can find.
Dan.

Answer 4

Wow I learn something new everyday! Whats is worst then baptizing the dead or praying to the dead?

Answer 5

Baptism for the dead is the proxy performance of the ordinance of baptism for one deceased. Joseph Smith taught, "If we can baptize a man in the name of the Father [and] of the Son and of the Holy Ghost for the remission of sins it is just as much our privilege to act as an agent and be baptized for the remission of sins for and in behalf of our dead kindred who have not heard the gospel or fulness of it" (Kenney, p. 165).

The first public affirmation of the ordinance of baptism for the dead in the Church was Joseph Smith's funeral sermon for Seymour Brunson in Nauvoo in August 1840. Addressing a widow who had lost a son who had not been baptized, he called the principle "glad tidings of great joy," in contrast to the prevailing tradition that all unbaptized are damned. The first baptisms for the dead in modern times were done in the Mississippi River near Nauvoo.

Revelations clarifying the doctrine and practice have been given from time to time:

1. This was a New Testament practice (1 Cor. 15:29; cf. D&C 128; see Baptism for the Dead: Ancient Sources).

2. The ministry of Christ in the spirit world was for the benefit of those who had died without hearing the gospel or the fulness of it (1 Pet. 4:6; see Salvation for the Dead).

3. Such baptisms are to be performed in temple fonts dedicated to the purpose (TPJS, p. 308; cf. D&C 124:29-35). In November 1841 the font in the unfinished Nauvoo Temple was so dedicated.

4. The language of the baptismal prayer is the same as for the living, with the addition of "for and in behalf of" the deceased.

5. Witnesses are to be present for proxy baptisms and a record is to be kept in Church archives (D&C 128:3, 8).

6. Women are to be baptized for women and men for men.

7. Not only baptism but confirmation and the higher temple ordinances may also be performed by proxy (TPJS, pp. 362-63).

8. The law of agency is inviolate in this world and the world to come. Thus, those served by proxy have the right to accept or reject the ordinances.

In the early years of the Church, proxy baptisms were performed only for direct blood ancestors, usually no more than four generations back. Today, Latter-day Saints are baptized not only for their own forebears but also for other persons, unrelated to them, identified through the name extraction program. The practice reflects the yearning of children for their parents and of parents for their children, and charitable feelings for others as well, that they receive the fulness of the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In LDS perspective, whatever else one may do to mourn, give honorable burial to, cherish, or memorialize the dead, this divinely authorized ordinance of baptism is a demonstration of love and has eternal implications.

Answer 6

Yes. They believe that they can be baptized for someone who may have lived a sinful life and that person can enter the celestial kingdom.

Answer 7

Yes they do. I have come across this while doing genealogy research. You will find LDS Baptism and they are 'sealed' to the family. As a genealogist one of the major problems I have seen with this is that not everyone is with the correct families.. I have found errors in my own family in LDS records because someone else donated the information and did so incorrectly.

Answer 8

I don't understand why, but they do this to help these people go into the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 9

Yes ..they do..They also think that the spirits of the dead will possess them and make them Smarter and GODS...

Freaky....

Answer 10

Yes they do.