Daniel Peterson is a Brigham Young University professor and the author of many articles and books on LDS ... baptism for the dead and all of its urgent, ambitious aspects. When I think of the ...

With my faith’s practice of baptism for the dead ... the afterlife. The Mormon belief in restored Gospel, priesthood authority, necessity of baptism, confirmation, temple ordinances, and ...

Baptisms need bodies, so young Mormon men and women dressed in white robes stand in for the departed souls in temple ceremonies ... the spirits of the dead must accept the baptism — it cannot ...

A former Mormon has lifted the lid on the church's bizarre 'baptisms for the dead ... to the LDS temple. 'They also believe that it's up to the person to accept or reject the baptism on the ...

(SALT LAKE CITY) — Mormon leaders reminded ... work saves not just the dead; it saves all of us,” Eyring said. “There are now many people who have accepted baptism in the spirit world.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon leaders reminded ... work saves not just the dead; it saves all of us,” Eyring said. “There are now many people who have accepted baptism in the spirit world.

Mormons think of baptisms for the dead as ... and the Mormon Explainer remembers being dunked repeatedly in a ceremonial tub on one of the lower levels of the Boston Temple. He wasn’t sure ...

In another policy shift, Nelson said that any temple recommend ... A proxy baptism doesn’t mean that person automatically becomes a Latter-day Saint in heaven. Mormon doctrine holds that those ...

Daniel Peterson is a Brigham Young University professor and the author of many articles and books on LDS ... baptism for the dead and all of its urgent, ambitious aspects. When I think of the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that a dead person can be baptised ... not make the person for whom the baptism is performed a Mormon. Confirmation and higher ordinances ...