Baptism for the dead assumes, in my opinion, that God can't handle his own paperwork. If various Jewish organizations have requested numerous times that the LDS church stop baptizing Holocaust victims by proxy, then they should cease and desist. IF (and it makes my stomach churn to even make this assumption) the Mormons are "right", then why couldn't things just get sorted out afterwards? The end of the world comes, Armageddon, yada-yada-yada... you go to Chava and say "Dear, we weren't allowed to baptize you out of an Earthly respect for your people, would you like to take the Big Bath now?" What's the rush?
But there I go, applying logic to an illogical process.
On an academic note, the LDS belief is that if you've never heard of the Mormon church, you're off the hook. You get to hear about it in Heaven's Waiting Room, where it's assumed you'll Choose The Right. ;) If you don't, then you get sorted out with everyone else according to what you did in life, and if you haven't murdered anyone or "denied the spirit", you get to go to a middle-heaven, which is a bit nicer than Earth but you don't get a piece of God-front property. Not sure if he ever vacations to visit his mildly-wayward children, but I kind of like the middle-ground concept... as much as I can like anything related to church.
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Date: 2006-04-01 08:32 am (UTC)But there I go, applying logic to an illogical process.
On an academic note, the LDS belief is that if you've never heard of the Mormon church, you're off the hook. You get to hear about it in Heaven's Waiting Room, where it's assumed you'll Choose The Right. ;) If you don't, then you get sorted out with everyone else according to what you did in life, and if you haven't murdered anyone or "denied the spirit", you get to go to a middle-heaven, which is a bit nicer than Earth but you don't get a piece of God-front property. Not sure if he ever vacations to visit his mildly-wayward children, but I kind of like the middle-ground concept... as much as I can like anything related to church.