2006-08-14 13:56:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They're dead! They can't know anything.!!!!!
Still it does seem like real spiritual piracy doesn't it? There you are having lived all your life as a Catholic or a Jew or a Foot Washing Baptist and some punk Mormon Elder comes along and makes you retroactively a Mormon.
Note to Mormons--You have got to stop calling those beardless 20 year old boys you send out on missions "Elders" It is to laugh. They don't look old enough to be out after dark. Call them missionaries or something else.
And Brian—Jesus H Christ on rocket Powered roller skates—How does a dead person accept anything? He’s dead! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
Sorry Am I ranting again?
2006-08-14 14:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, they are given the choice to either accept or deny the vicarious baptism. Only those spirits who accept the baptism done on their behalf will become "Mormon".
Edit:
To sslpatt: Mormons believe that our spirits live on after our physical bodies die. After death our spirits will live in a Spirit World, where we will await the final judgment. Because baptism is a required ordinance to enter the kingdom of God, and because not all people will have the opportunity to hear the Gospel during their life on Earth, God has provided them the opportunity of hearing the Gospel while in the Spirit World. Baptism is a physical ordinance, and therefore must be done on Earth. God has also provided those spirits who accept the Gospel in the Spirit World with the opportunity to have a baptism performed on their behalf. It appears by your statements that you do not believe we will exist after we die. If that is the case, then you need not concern yourself with what Mormons, or any other religion, believe.
To stronzo5785: I doubt your sister has been baptized in your behalf. After all, you are still living, aren't you?
2006-08-14 21:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by hmmm... 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People must choose their faith, others don't choose for them. My sister was baptized in proxy (Mormon-ese for baptism for the dead) for me, but I'm still very much a Christian.
Do you actually believe in the premise of your question?
2006-08-14 21:08:39 · answer #3 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1st Corinthians 15
28 And when all things shall be asubdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be bsubject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are abaptized bfor the dead, if the dead crise not at all? why are they then baptized for the ddead?
30 And why stand we in ajeopardy every hour?
31 aI protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us aeat and drink; for bto morrow we die.
2006-08-14 21:14:35 · answer #4 · answered by pacers_7_is_back2002 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are only LDS if they chose to accept the baptism that was done for them. People who have passed on are still around... just not where we can see them. They can either accept it or deny it. But either way, they are in a heck of a much better place than we all are.
2006-08-15 17:13:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's the problem with denying the Universal Theology of the New Jerusalem by Swedenborg.
2006-08-14 21:02:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people have died without receiving baptism and other ordinances that Jesus Christ taught were necessary to enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5). Because Heavenly Father wants all His children to have the opportunity to return to Him, He has provided a way for those who have died without these ordinances to receive them.
In holy temples, members of the Church can perform these ordinances on behalf of their ancestors who have died.
This makes it possible for those who have not received these ordinances to accept them, if they choose, and return to live one day with our Heavenly Father.
2006-08-15 16:56:18 · answer #7 · answered by John R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't do any good whatsoever to baptize someone after death. He also cannot be saved after death. He has to confess with his own mouth and that would be kinda hard to do if you were dead, would it not?
2006-08-14 21:06:37 · answer #8 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you telephone them and find out?
The term Elder refers to the priesthood they hold---not that they are Elder(ly)
2006-08-15 15:48:55 · answer #9 · answered by Sherpa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dead??????????????
2006-08-14 21:01:16 · answer #10 · answered by Who am I? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋