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What a silly comment. The idea that proxy baptism for the dead has any effect is predicated on the belief that there is an afterlife and that the individual ha
by resplin 14y ago
What a silly comment.
The idea that proxy baptism for the dead has any effect is predicated on the belief that there is an afterlife and that the individual has the ability to accept or reject the ordinance.
- stephengillie 14y agoIndeed, any act the living take on behalf of the dead is solely for the benefit of the living -- usually for emotional benefit. We are objects, after all, and death returns us to an inanimate state.
- resplin 14y agoI don't think you are appreciating the world view of believing Mormons.
- jamesbritt 14y agoHe seems to understand it just fine.
- resplin 14y agoUnderstanding and appreciating are very different things.
- hnriot 14y agoNot really, a proxy baptism might make those still alive feel better about themselves or their ancestors, and of course it solves one of the theological conundrums of purgatory. My point is that the dead are dead, no matter what anyone of any belief chooses to think. Just because a group of people think or believe something doesn't actually make it so.
- dorian-graph 14y agoPurgatory is not a general theological conundrum. It's within the domain of Catholicism and those who broke off from there. As far as you're away, the dead are dead, unless you have absolutely solved that.
- beedogs 14y agoI guess they have a fax machine or something in a corner in some room in SLC? Or maybe some sort of special courier service to ferry the communiques to the various other-denominational Heavens? A really secret interoffice mail envelope? I mean at a certain point doesn't this just turn into grown adults playing pretend?