Why do Latter-day Saints perform baptisms for the dead?

Answer 1

So everyone who has died without hearing about the church can accept or reject it in the afterlife.


I don't believe, btw. I just know why. =0)

Answer 2

We perform baptisms for the dead because we believe that no unclean thing can dwell in the presence of God. And we so we must be baptized by someone who has the authority to do it so that we could enter the kingdom of God.

However, there are individuals who never got the chance to be baptized by someone who has the authority to baptize or some people were never baptized at all. They receive a second chance because latter day saints perform baptisms for the dead.

From there the deceased can have the choice of accepting or rejecting the baptism.

Answer 3

What does the Bible really teach as respect 'baptised for the dead'?
According to 1 Cor. 15:29, KJ: “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?”

The Greek preposition hy·per′, here translated “for,” also means “over,” “on behalf of,” “instead of,” “for the purpose of,” etc. (A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell and Scott) What does it mean in this text? Was Paul suggesting baptizing living persons in behalf of those who had died unbaptized?

The only other scriptures that directly mention death in connection with baptism refer to a baptism that the individual himself undergoes, not a baptism on behalf of another person, one who is dead

Rom. 6:3: “Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” (Also Mark 10:38, 39)

Col. 2:12: “For you [living members of the congregation in Colossae] were buried with him in his baptism, and by relationship with him you were also raised up together through your faith in the operation of God, who raised him up from the dead.”

1 Cor. 15:29: “Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized for the purpose of being dead ones? If the dead are not to be raised up at all, why are they also being baptized for the purpose of being such?” (So they are baptized, or immersed, into a course of life that will lead to a death of integrity like that of Christ and then to being raised to spirit life as he was.)

Answer 4

Baptism is necessary for exaltation.
Some have died, or will die, without having the chance to hear about the gospel, and accept or reject it, and be baptised.
For those who have died without having chosen baptism, we do that baptism for them, in their name. They then have the choice of accepting or rejecting that baptism done for them.

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptised for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptised for the dead?

It's in the Bible.

Answer 6

To get the smell off?

Answer 7

Because they do not read the Bible.
They believe the doctrine of men.