What reason is behind having to deeply research ones genealogy in the morman church ?
No negativsim or judgements intended. Honestly.
I was just curious why this important for a mormon to do this ?
I ask that only practicing mormons answer this please. Thank You.
2006-11-04 11:08:34 · 7 answers · asked by Thomas 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
LDS spend millions of dollars and man-hours to research the names of dead people in order to do their proxy Mormon baptisms and Celestial/Plural marriages. However, the Bible has no such teaching.
1 Timothy 1:4 - Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies
Titus 3:9 - Avoid foolish questions and genealogies
The Mormons continue on with their contact with the dead because it is a spiritualist/occultic Anti-Christian religion.
The view that deceased human beings can hear and receive the gospel of Jesus Christ in the spirit world, and through proxy baptism performed for them on earth, attain eternal life in the presence of God, is one of the distinctive doctrines of Mormonism that separates it from historic, Biblical Christianity.
The Mormon doctrine of salvation for the dead is incompatible with the general Biblical teaching that our eternal destiny is fixed at death.
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel (1 Corinthians 1:16). This statement surely implies that baptism does not have equal importance with faith in Christ.
The New Testament certainly teaches that baptism is an important step of obedience for Christians, but it does not teach its absolute necessity for forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
The Book of Mormon is completely silent about baptism for the dead. According to the Book or Mormon, those who die in ignorance of gospel do not need baptism, and further, since it is a covenant for mortality, it could have no relevance to those in the spirit world.
2006-11-05 11:12:58 · answer #1 · answered by kirstycristy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genealogy is very much apart of the Mormon church because they believe in baptisms for the dead. Therefore, they use the genealogy records and research to support the baptisms.
They believe that if they do baptisms for the dead (a real person being physically baptised for someone who is already dead), that the person will then have the choice to join the church and be baptised...even though they're already dead. This is the main (only?) way Mormons believe that people who died before the LDS church came about will be able to hear the gospel and be "saved." It is especially important for members to do genealogy so they can have their dead family members baptised.
2006-11-04 11:41:03 · answer #2 · answered by applesoup 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The theory that there is not any exaltation with out polygamy isn't genuine. D&C 132 would not REQUIRE plural marriage. The LDS scriptures are sparkling that exaltation demands an everlasting marriage, yet on no account say that marriage to a million individual isn't adequate.
2016-10-21 06:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by jaisigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To mormons, knowing where you come from is really important. We also do baptisms for the dead where a person can be baptized for someone who has already passed on, who wasnt able to be baptized during thier life. Plus, a lot of people find it fun in a way. It's almost like a scavenger hunt.
2006-11-05 10:15:29 · answer #4 · answered by utah_snow_bunny 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Malachi 4:5-6
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to their children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
We believe that genealogy is part of the fulfillment of that prophecy.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
2006-11-04 14:57:07 · answer #5 · answered by whapingmon 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Mormons believe when a person dies, they don't go to heaven or hell--they spend the rest of eternity with their ancestors in a sort of spirit world, waiting for Christ to come again.
They feel that you should know who your forebearers were in order to be able to connect to them in the next world.
www.familysearch.org has more info.
2006-11-04 13:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by curiogirl84 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my husbands grandmother was morman they believe in the book of life i traces all members of church back to beginning i think they an help anyone looking for relatives they are that thorough
2006-11-04 13:40:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋