Weekend Finisher
It is plain to see why Republican so-called Christians and, I hate to say it, and myself, rejects the teaching of the Mormons Church. Just a few days ago it was reported that the Mormon Church was engaged in baptizing living relatives in the place of dead people to give that person a chance to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the afterlife. Mormons believe it is their moral obligation to do the temple rituals.
The dead people happen to be Jewish Holocaust victims. This outraged the Jewish community because Mormons agreed in 1995 to stop this type of baptizing but never stopped. This make them liars and the entire organization come under more questionable scrutiny.
Mormon Apostle Quentin Cook during a 2009 tour of a new Mormon Temple in Draper, Utah said, "The savior said that everybody had to be baptized to enter into the kingdom of heaven."
While the Bible do mention we have to be baptize, let us not forget that it is not water that is washing away our sins but our confession and asking Jesus to forgive us. It is his blood that make our salvation possible and not water. It is our keeping the gospel in our hearts and act upon it in our daily lives.
If it took only a water baptism for remission of sin then Jesus dying on the cross was useless. If one could stand in for another person's sins without that person accepting Jesus as their personal savior on their own then all we know and been taught is worthless.
If it was that easy to get into heaven then we all can live like hell and just get any ancestor who attend a Morman Church to be baptized for us when we die. They are doing this for Holocaust victims. I wonder if they are doing this for non holocaust dead. If you are doing it, then you are doing it for all. No wonder Christians are skeptical of their religion.
But where did they come up with the idea to baptizing the dead? Yes, indeed it did come from the Bible. I was shocked to read it. But to tell you the truth, I have read it but never pondered on it because I knew what it meant. I was shocked to see that once again church folks like the Mormons are twisting and misunderstanding scripture.
I want you to look at Corinthians 15:1-29, paying special attention to verse "29" which read, "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they them baptized for the dead."
Some of you have already seen a flaw in their understanding of scripture from the verse above. For you who are stumped let me explain.
The apostle was trying to get the people to see that they must believe in Christ and everything that occurred because of him. For example: If we say that Christ's "death, burial and resurrection did not occur , then our hope in rising from the grave is in vain.
Verse 29 above is simply saying some what of the same. That is, If we do not believe that being baptize with water does not simulate us being dead and reborn or rise again after Christ then why would we do it. In other if it was not true then all would be in vain again. This verse is simply one of many point as the rest of Corinthians 15: beginning with the first verse. Read it for yourself. Then think about it!
1 Corinthians 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
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?
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