All those millions and millions of people who lived before record keeping????
God must be a jerk to make that a restriction to get into the celestial kingdom!
2007-09-12 12:17:23 · 10 answers · asked by universatile love 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so why the baptisms of the dead shorty....seems like a waste of time huh!
2007-09-12 12:25:24 · update #1
wait do mormon go back in their family and baptize already dead people with out them knowing that is like getting your religon switched 100 years after your death that is kinda strange man, it it to like make you more pure or something I don't know why anyone would do that ???
2007-09-12 12:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe a lot of temple work will be done during the millenium, maybe for those who we could never find any geology...
Interestingly enough, many times geneology is "found" through many different ways and we know it is the hand of the Lord at work... I know of a person who was searching and searching for a specific ancestor and that ancestor actually came to her in a dream and told her her name and where she could find record of her family in a journal. Pretty amazing. There are many instances where things like this have happened when otherwise there was no real hope of finding names..
Eventhough work will be done in the millenium, we are still commanded to do as much as we can here on earth.
2007-09-13 14:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The millions will be taken care of in God's time. Today baptisms are less than 1% of the death rate. There is no way to keep up with the names we know, much less to worry about the records we don't have. When I do a little research, the miracle is that the names that were hidden fall in my lap like ripe fruit.
2007-09-13 10:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by Isolde 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Those that are not found now, will be found during the Millenium, the 1000 years that Christ reigns personally on Earth.
The reason to get as much done now is that these people could be waiting for their baptism as we speak. The sooner the better. It also helps us fill time doing useful things.
2007-09-12 20:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by Senator John McClain 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that during the Millennium the veil between this world and the Spirit World will be so thin that names will literally be given to those doing the work from those on the other side. No one will be left behind.
2007-09-12 20:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by all star 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Hey TROLL have you ever heard of THE MILLENIUM? yeah it follows Christs return.
Ever considered that those people lived in a different DISPENSATION, and are upheald to different rites?
Nah Didn't think so. Shows how schooled you are!
Our Primary Children know this answer!
2007-09-12 22:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think the Mormons on here answered your question. Their explanation of their doctrine about this issue is dead on (pardon the pun). The question should be, "What is required for salvation"? Because if a person is saved by the grace of God through faith in Christ only. All this baptism for the dead is useless anyway...... IHS Jim
2007-09-12 19:31:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
One of the reasons there is a "Millennium" -- a thousand years where Christ will rule and proxy work for the dead can continue.
D
2007-09-12 19:22:35 · answer #8 · answered by Dionysus 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
not as much of a jerk as the God the fundy Christians believe in, who just chucks them in hell and forgets about them
yup, that's real love right there. And did you know they chose it themselves?
2007-09-12 19:22:31 · answer #9 · answered by lindsey p 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They will be taken care of after Christ's return.
2007-09-12 19:22:10 · answer #10 · answered by Dublin Ducky 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋