It is really strange and it is very unbiblical, it seems like they believe in Limbo, they also believe that when you get to heaven then you will be with your immediate family like on earth.
Many people say "When i get to heaven, i will see my wife again" or they say "I will see my children or Dog".
It seems to me like they are looking for their family and not God, I want to see God more anything when i get to heaven, we aren't even sure if we would remember our family becasue we will all have a new body that pleasing to God.
2007-05-18 00:56:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I suppose Peter was "unbiblical" when he wrote that Jesus taught the spirits in prison. Why did He initiate the conversion of those who died without the Gospel, unless there was a way for them to receive the ordinances of the Gospel?
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
2007-05-19 10:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by Isolde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are CLEARLY SEEN, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
"Only one life, soon it will pass. Only what's done for Christ will last".
To all: you've got one life to make your choices. No one can make it for you during this life or after.
James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- 14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
2007-05-18 08:55:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you believe that God is selfish? Do you think that God is only concerned about what is pleasing to HIM, and couldn't care less about what is going to make US happy? Do you not think that what makes US supremely happy would make HIM supremely happy? Do you think that God is so petty and immature and insecure, that He could never share what He has with us?
Do you think that God is so unmerciful that He would toss into eternal hellfire those who never had the opportunity to hear and accept (or reject) the gospel message of Jesus Christ, His sacrifice and His triumphant resurrection? Some (like us LDS) believe that baptism is essential. Would God throw into hell those who never had the chance to be baptised?
2007-05-18 04:16:01 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's just an addenda added onto the concept of a life after death, in this case, a stand-in is baptized in the deceased's name. Originally this was used to make sure all the lds family ancestry was baptized into the church, thus avoiding long lines in Hell.
Recently, overzealous mormons have been submitting celebrity and historical names, most notably Holocaust Victims. This does not set well with the families of those names, and have demanded the church cease the practice of submitting non-members or obviously Jewish people as "baptized.:
Once more the church manages to again annoy the civilized world by inflicting their ******** doctrine on us.
2007-05-18 07:24:44 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Simple, to try to collect soul's. if possible, for their kingdom, they even say that the spirits of the dead will show up int he temple and tell me that they are greatful for the babtism, or temple marriage sealment. Its in the Christians and Mormon KJV bible but no one has been able to explain what Paul was talking baout, so Joseph Smith just interpreted it his way...1 corinthians 15:29. This ordiance int he temple is like ancestrail worship.
2007-05-19 14:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mormon practice of baptism for the dead is neither scriptural or sensible. Baptism for the dead is a practice that was common in the pagan religions of Greece and is still practiced today by some cults; but it doesn't change a person's sentence, for that is determined while he lives (Luke 16:26).
2007-05-18 01:46:35 · answer #6 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
who knows what these guys in cults think.
2007-05-18 01:10:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋