Why do Mormons baptize the dead....isn't that a little pointless if the dead are......dead???

Question

If they are already in hell will Satan actually give them up just because another Mormon took a bath for them?

Answer 1

A lot of bad answers to this question.

Mormons believe in hell for only a very few people. In their view, the vast majority of people will go to one of three heavens.

The first heaven is for "everyone." The second is for average mormons and really good other people. The last is for mormons who performed all the rites when they were on earth (marriage in temple, etc) As part of being married in the temple, ("sealed (as a family) for time and all eternity") and other rites. So...in order to make sure all your ancestors join you in the final heaven, they have to have been baptised as a mormon. (That is what baptism means to them.) So they will do a proxy baptism on behalf of a dead family member or someone else who has requested the baptism. When they do this they state the persons name, and are baptised in lieu of that person, allowing the long-dead person's spirit the ability to enter into the best mormon heaven.

Don't blame me! I'm not mormon! Aunts and uncles are tho.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ taught that baptism is essential to the salvation of all who have lived on earth (see John 3:5). Many people, however, have died without being baptized. Others were baptized without proper authority. Because God is merciful, He has prepared a way for all people to receive the blessings of baptism. By performing proxy baptisms in behalf of those who have died, Church members offer these blessings to deceased ancestors. Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in their behalf.

Some people have misunderstood that when baptisms for the dead are performed, deceased persons are baptized into the Church against their will. This is not the case. Each individual has agency, or the right to choose. The validity of a baptism for the dead depends on the deceased person accepting it and choosing to accept and follow the Savior while residing in the spirit world. The names of deceased persons are not added to the membership records of the Church.
To read more: http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.3933737ad2ff28132eb22a86942826a0/?vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=1ec52f2324d98010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____

We also don't believe persons who have died are already in their eternal "destination"...we believe all who have died and will die are either in spirit prison (which could be considered "hell") or spirit paradise - there they will await the millenium and final judgement. After those events, all will inherit a Kingdom of glory - Celestial, Terrestrial or Telestial - depending on their righteousness and ordinances performed....
To learn more, go to Mormon.org, LDS.org or speak with some LDS missionaries.

Answer 3

we do not believe that they are immediately in what others call Hell. There is a time after this life when we all live in the spirit world. Here everyone will be given a chance to gear the gospel if they did not hear it or get a chance to receive it on earth. There is much more to the belief than this. I would ask the LDS missionaries if you really want to understand. You can just tell them that you have that question. It will take a lot of background doctrine to understand. You question reminds me a lot of the scripture already referred to in 1 Cor 15.

Answer 4

in case you have been to place in writing my ineffective grandmother's call on the jobs of a baptist church, could that make her baptist? We record what ordinances are completed for who, and incorporate in the event that they have been living and ineffective. in the experience that your subject is that others would desire to think of that your kinfolk have been Mormon because of the fact they observed they have been baptized, it could additionally instruct that it replaced into after their dying. we don't think that baptisms by ability of proxy for the deceased "forces" every physique to grow to be Mormon. It merely supplies them an possibility to settle for or reject it. Baptism is a actual element that's mandatory to go into the dominion of God. It can not be carried out by ability of the ineffective or on the ineffective, so God has presented a fashion that people who did no longer have a guess to be baptized by ability of one that has his authority at a similar time as living can nevertheless get carry of the ordinance.

Answer 5

How do you know where the dead are? One cannot assume that when someone dies, they either go straight to heaven or straight to hell, do not pass Go, do not collect...well, anyway...

Do you think that our Heavenly Father is such a hard-nose that He would throw in hell even those who have never even HEARD the gospel, let alone had a chance to accept it? What about those who are not rejecting Christ, so much as they are rejecting Christianity, as presented by so many sanctimonious, self-righteous "Christians"?

Vicarious baptism is primarily for those who died without ever having the chance to accept OR REJECT the gospel. Sort of a "no one gets left behind" program for heaven.

Actually, IMHO, Satan does not have any power that God or we do not give him. Jesus came, died and was resurrected to have POWER and DOMINION over death and hell and SATAN. Why would God let Satan have one of His children over a stupid technicality? God judges our HEARTS, not just what we say. And WE are not supposed to judge anyone's salvation for the simple fact that WE do not know what is in anyone's heart but our own.

Answer 6

The FALSE NOTION that baptism somehow saves has lead many false doctrines to ruin Many Religions!

Water Baptism is Only A Symbol!

Jesus said, "YOU Must be Born Again [from above] See John 3 and John 7:38-39.

Thanks, RR

Answer 7

We believe in the ressurection. You know, life after death.
Second we do not believe they are already in Hell and Satan will have to give them up.
Third Mormons do not "baptise the dead'. They "baptise for the dead".
Fourth we believe God is fair and just and everyone will get the chance to hear the truth before they are judged. If they did not hear it here on Earth they will get a chance to hear it before they are judged.

Answer 8

Baptizm is about dedicating your life to God and serving him here on earth and they hav to be the one to want to do that while there alive.when people die, the bible says we are concious of nothing so they wouldnt even know that they were getn baptized,wut if they didnt want to get baptized.If you carry there name then that means there life is on you so if you mess up they wouldnt hav a chance of resurection,so yea it doesnt make sense for them to do it.And Hell is defined as mankinds commen grave

Answer 9

I'll take stupid religions for $800.

A - They believe that if a loved one died without accepting the true faith you can baptize them after they are dead so they can get to heaven.

Q - What are the mormons?

I'll take stupid religions for $1000.

A - They believe that if a loved one died without accepting the true faith they will burn in hell for all eternity and you will enjoy their suffering because you believed and they did not.

Q - What are the christians?

Frankly they both seem like stupid answers to me.

Answer 10

i have found out that there a very strange lot of people, the two elders called me crazy when i told them of a miracle that saved my fathers life, that only they can do miracles it seems. that only there priests and higher ups in there church can work miracles, i find that extremely strange .i was about to be baptized into there Church, Thank God i didn't.