Where in the bible does it talk about baptizing dead people?

Answer 1

In the context you are asking the question...it doesn't. The Mormons biblical backing is lacking here, but that's the beauty of a divine Revelation, you can''t prove it didn't happen, and you don't need biblical support.

Answer 2

The bible does not talk about baptizing dead people, it talks about baptizing living people in behalf of dead people.

1 Corinthians
29 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?

Why?
1 Peter 4
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

So the dead have a chance to receive all they could have as if they were alive. Everyone gets an opportunity.

Who preached to the dead? (like the ones from the flood?)
1 Peter 3
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.

Answer 3

1 Cor. 15: 29
29 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?

KJV Bible

Answer 4

In 1 Corinthians 15:29, Paul references a pagan group of pseudo-Christians who do baptisms on behalf of dead people.

He uses this reference to support the idea of a resurrection, which the Corinthians had trouble understanding, given their Greek origin.

"Else what shall they do, who are baptized for the dead. If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?"

It is important to note the personal pronoun "they." Paul made several references in the chapter to these pagans. He distinctively uses four pronouns in the chapter: I/me (for himself), we/us (meaning either the apostles, or the Christians), He/Him (Jesus Christ), and they/them (the pagans or non-Christians).

Nowhere else in the Bible does it even mention work for the dead, and even in this one side-reference, Paul doesn't ever say that it is required or even good. He simply uses others' practicing of it to support his argument for resurrection. To say that Paul was advocating it is a stretch argument and is based in a biased person reading it with the desired answer already in mind, known as "selective understanding."

The LDS Church's baptism for the dead doctrine is based on the Elijah doctrine adopted in Kirtland, and can be found in D&C.

Answer 5

1 Cor 15:29

Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

This does not teach that people should be baptized for the dead, it only asked a question stating that it occured.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

In Corinthians Paul asked Why do you Baptize the dead?....
Its somewhere in Corinthians Give me some time and I can find it or I'm sure a Mormon/ex-Mormon can tell ya faster than I.


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Answer 7

I'm not aware of anywhere. But then again, you have to understand that the spiritually dead are the ones who need to be baptized. After baptism, a person is born again and no longer 'dead' but alive in Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

I was getting prepared to answer this as I scrolled over the answers until I got to someone who cares' answer. He did it better than I could.

Answer 9

1 Corinthians. 15:29

and by the way, I am not a Mormon.

Answer 10

I think it's called embalming. Baptising the dead doesn't do anything but leave you with a wet corpse.