LDS and baptizing the dead?

Question

Does this practice tick any of you off? I was looking at a part of my family tree on rootsweb.com and noticed that someone took the liberty of baptizing some of my very catholic and dead family members. I just think it's extremely irrelevant to baptize someone who is dead and I also think that it's just plain insulting to all of us who are non-mormon and don't believe in silly things like "celestial heaven". I don't think mormons would like it very much if they were baptized a different faith after they passed. I try to be open minded about things but I just can't rationalize something like this.

Answer 1

I agree with you.

I see it as pointless to baptize someone without their will or consent, and disrespectful to the person's family.

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Answer 2

How does what they did affect someone who's died? If the Mormons are right then they just gave the person the chance to accept or reject the ordinance of baptism, which would be a good thing (if Mormons are right). Mormons don't believe that doing a baptism for the dead makes the person Mormon unless that person wants it to. If they're wrong (either because their religion is wrong or because there is no such thing as an afterlife) then it had no effect whatsoever except getting a teenager wet for a few seconds.

My guess would be if a Mormon found that if their relatives "were baptized a different faith after they passed" the response would be a shrug, not offense, since they don't believe that other churches' baptisms have an effect even when done to a living person.

Answer 3

I agree, 3 years ago as I was living in the state of Utah the Mormon's began a program where they had begun to baptize the WWII Jewish Holocaust victims.....REALLY!
This is a religion that believes GOD was once a man, That the male members of the LDS church will populate their own planet and become gods of those planets after they die....They believe Christ is the brother of Lucifer...on and on into insanity.......
I left Utah ...it;s a beautiful state , the people are friendly and the majority of women are walking around like Stepford Wives !

Answer 4

Don't worry. Even us Mormons believe that the person who has the baptism done for them has the choice to except it or not in the after life. It is not like we are taking any ones freedom of choice away from them in fact we feel it gives them more choices. We also believe that it has to be submitted by a family member unless the person has been dead for at least 100 years.

Answer 5

Others before me have done a good job answering your question. We believe that ALL no matter what must have the opportunity to accept or reject the gospel. Baptism (by the proper authority) is a saving ordinance and one cannot enter into our Heavenly Father's kingdom without first being baptized. We believe all will be resurrected, that is one gift given to all of mankind because of Christ's death and resurrection - he broke the bonds of physical death for us all, so in that light, we are "saved" from physical death. All of us. But, we also believe we must do certain things, things the Lord has commanded, to return to live with Him.
Baptism for the dead is talked about in the bible, it is a commandment. We are commanded to perform those ordinances for those who have passed on, so that if they accept the gospel in the spirit world while awaiting resurrection and judgement, their ordinances will already be done.
As others have stated, of course each individual has the choice, once the ordinances have been performed for them, they must accept them for the ordinances to be in force, otherwise, those ordinances performed are meaningless. They ordiances are only "valid" if that person accepts them.
Also, members cannot just pick a person's name and perform their ordinances, there is careful consideration as to the accuracy of their names and family history. My mother-in-law wanted to get the ordinances performed for her dead uncles, our stake president told her she had to get the children's permission first. Unless the person has been dead more than 100 years, we still have to get permission from the family, which most of the time it is family doing the ordinances anyways.

Answer 6

LDS coverage states that baptisms for the useless can not be done for persons useless decrease than one hundred years without the permission of an instantaneous friend (next of kinfolk, i trust). it is church coverage. each and each and every of the temples paintings with an similar set of guidelines and regulations and they don't look allowed to deviate from those polices. There are somethings that would decision from kinfolk to kinfolk or ward to ward, concerns of the Temple are an similar in each and each and every of the products of the church. Please do not trust each and everything you study on anti-LDS web pages or from those who're anti-LDS. those web pages are oftentimes finished of spin, 0.5 truths and outright lies. at the same time as at one aspect, the church would have allowed names of particular communities of persons to be submitted for temple paintings (ie.. Holocause victims), that practice grow to be stopped a lengthy time period in the past. there will be some fanatical contributors of the church who conflict through the paper and attempt to submit names of at the moment deceased non- kin, besides the undeniable fact that it does no longer get them some distance, because the regulations of the church are very sparkling concerning this. it is fairly no longer a undemanding practice. almost each and each and every of the temple works submitted through human being contributors are for our ancestors who've been useless for a lengthy time period. Edit** I also do not comprehend why people do not get fired up about this. LDS are the in trouble-free terms those who even trust there is any validity to this ordinance. If there is not any validity what does it count number. If this practice is an abomination, gained't the persons appearing or not that is those who will stand the wrath of God, quite than the deceased individual who grow to be harmless in the completed aspect? to boot, in the adventure that they don't look valid, then why does it count number besides. If i prefer to waste my time, enable me do it. If someone from yet another faith all started baptizing my anscestors, i does no longer be afflicted through it. i trust that it does no longer be valid besides and that my ancestors would learn what the reality is when they die, so that they are going to make the alternative they trust is ideal.

Answer 7

Baptizing dead guys is not only illicit, it's dishonest, and there's absolutely no scriptural support for such a practice.

They do this to populate their own future "spirit worlds" where they expect to be gods, just like their own gods were before them.

This is why LDS people cannot be considered Christians, in any true sense.

The appropriate the name of Jesus Christ, yet they preach another gospel, about another christ, who certainly isn't the God of Abraham, or the God of Christianity.

Answer 8

I used to be LDS. I did baptisms for the dead a couple of times,and it never felt right. If the dead believed in Jesus Christ and excepted him as their savior they will be fine. I can't quote the chapter or verse right now,but I know the Bible doesn't agree with this practice.

Answer 9

Do not worry. The person on the other side always has free will to accept or decline the baptism. So, if they wanted to remain Catholic, they did. I am a former Mormon who has done this kind of work. Whoever you told you about this did not give you all the details. We ALWAYS have free will.

Answer 10

I wouldn't take too much offense at baptism of your dead loved ones. After all their faith was strong and anything done for them after they're dead is pointless. I might object if they were dissected for no reason, but that's just if nothing would be gained from it.

Answer 11

No need to baptize the dead. Anyway a person has to want to be baptized once they are saved.....
The soul is gone so what is the need to baptize?