mormons think they can baptize the dead, isn't that disrespectful for dead people?
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your right. MORMONS THINK IT! \n The Holy Bible nor God Himself thinks it. Period.\n\nDead people are just that. Dead people. Jesus Himself said: "Let the dead bury the dead".\n YOU can't touch a dead person's soul.  End of Story.\n  \n   I think one would be wise to concentrate on Respecting \nthe Living as opposed to Disrespecting the dead. \n The Holy Bible will show you ways to do this. I have yet to read anything here on Yahoo about it.\n\nTo: destinepyle: Read Romans 10-9-10 Each one of us will give account of ourselves to God.\n How can a Mormon give account for another person? using a Holy Bible?  not they're own Bingham version?
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I don't think the Ten Commandment say anything about how to embalm a person...    Jim
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Yes, you can. \nYou can also Baptize as well.
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The diferences between Mormons and Christians/Baptists are so many and so great that mainline Christians almost universally consider Mormons to be unsaved cult members and not Christians.\n\nFor one thing, Mormons do not consider Jesus to be God. A Christian believes in the Trinity-God being made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nMormons consider Jesus to be a brother of satan and merely a man. Christians believe that Jesus is also God. Christians believe that one cannot deny the Jesus of the Bible and be saved. \n\nMormons believe that God was once a man and later became God. They believe that God has a number of heavenly wives and that God lives near a star called Kolob. They believe that Jesus was conceived by God coming to earth as a man and having phsyical relations with the virgin Mary. Christians believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and that Mary was still a virgin at his birth.\n\nMormons believe everyone has two sets of parents-spiritual parents and earthly parents. They believe they are first born as spirits and then sit around until a couple on earth conceives a baby and then they are assigned a body. Mormons have a lot of children because their church has told them that there are a surplus of spirit babies waiting for earthly bodies, so it is the church members responsibility to provide them. \n\nThe men of the Mormon church in the 1800s were encouraged to take multiple wives so they could create a lot of eartly babies for these spirit babies. Many times women were strong-armed into accepting additional wives into their families because they were told by their husband and the church leaders that they wouldn't get into heaven if they disagreed. \n\nYoung women who might not want to marry an old guy with several wives already were also told that they wouldn't get into heaven if they didn't marry some old geezer they didn't like.\n\nUpon marrying women were given a new spiritual name and so were their husbands. The men would know the woman's name but not vica versa. This was so the man could supposedly call his wife into heaven someday. It was also kind of hung over her head that she had to be obedient or her husband wouldn't call her into heaven.\n\nIt is my understanding that until recently the Mormon church in some of its special ceremonies had participants pretend to cut their throats or tear out their organs if they would leave the church. \n\n\nMormons actually believe that they will each become gods someday and rule heavens. Christians believe that men are men, that men do not become gods. Christians do not have this strange spiritual belief and pride that Mormons do.\n\n Mormons believe in heavenly marriages. Jesus taught that marriages are just while people are on earth. Mormons perform "eternal" marriages in their temples in the belief that in the afterlife when they think they are gods and godesses that they can make lots of spirit babies which in turn will be sent to earth to some human couple who conceives.\n\nMormons believe in baptizing the dead into their church, so frequent baptisms are held in their temple for ancestors of Mormons who they believe may not have been baptized into the Mormon church. They have also taken upon themselves to baptized most dead US presidents as well as a number of Jewish holocaust victims, until a number of those of the Jewish faith complained. \n\nThis is why Mormons are so interested in genealogy. They want to marry and baptize all these dead people.\n\nMormons believe in a three tiered heaven-a telestial, terrestial, and celestial heaven. They believe that only married Mormons can attain their highest level of heaven (celestial), so single Mormons are always encouraged to look attractive and find a mate so they can make the highest level. \n\nChristians believe in one heaven, not a multi-tiered one. Christians don't believe being married has any affect on their status in heaven.\n\nTo get into a Mormon temple to b
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reap what you sow...isn't this right?I can care less about religion...but why be called mormonism while raggin on the church?If you feel betrayed by the church & what not don't worry...God(if there is one)doesn't sleep.All wrongdoings will have it's toll...
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What bothers me most about Mormons are their false scriptures and false prophets. They have three false scripture-the book of Mormon, a Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants. Starting with the founder Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and all their church presidents are false prohphets. What changes would I recommend. Throw out their scriptures, read their Bibles and forget about their prophets. \n\nA short summary for those not familiar with Mormonism\n\n\nThe Mormon church has some very unusual doctrines and beliefs and is considered to be a cult by most conventional Christian denominations.\n\nFor example, they believe their God has a number of heavenly wives. They believe God lives on a planet near a star names Kolob. They believe that they can become gods in the afterlife. They believe in a three tiered heaven which can only be reached through works including marriage to another mormon. Single Mormons can not reach this third level of their heaven. They believe their God used to be a man of flesh and bones and later became God. They believe God came down to earth as a man to impregnate the virgin Mary. \n\nThey believe Satan and Jesus are brothers. They believe everyone has two sets of parents-heavenly parents that create spirit babies and the earthly parents who create the bodies into which these supposed spirt babies go. The reason Mormons have so many children is that they believe that there are a surplus of spirit babies and so members are encouraged to have as many babies as possible to make a place for the spirit bodies to live.\n\nThey believe in marrying and baptizing all their dead relations into the Mormon church, hence the interest in geneology. They have also baptized most dead US presidents and a number of holocaust victims until they got quite a few complaints from members of the Jewish faith. \n\nThe church is very controlling and a person must pass an interview with a church official each year to get a temple recommend pass-this includes a promise of tithing, believing the prophets, work in the church, etc. \n\nThe mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith a local ne'r do well, who spent most of his time treasure hunting, and one day ta-dah he discovered supposedly gold plates from the angel Moroni in New York. The book of Mormon, as opposed to the Bible is historically and archeologically unsound. For example, Bethlehem and Jericho existed. Not so for the locations in the book of Mormon. Joseph Smith as a child made up lots of involved stories regarding Indians and other inhabitants of America. Not so surprisingly the same type of stories are in his book of Mormon, which he claimed came down on gold plates from God. According to Mormon doctrines dark skinned people were dark skinned because of a "curse" placed on them.
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Yes they do. If your a good mormon and wear your magical underwear then you can be a God when you die! Also Jesus and Satan are brothers and God has a wife. These people are real flakes!
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Good questions. I am LDS and will let you know what I understand of our official policies. \n\n1. We view this as a biblical sin. If the person is willing to repent then they would not be ex-communicated. However, this would imply that the person is willing to stop the sin. If a person continues such behaviors, knowing that they are wrong and has no intention of stopping the sin, then the possibility exists that they could be excommunicated. However, we are humans and the church is here for those who have a desire to come to Christ. The first response of the Church would be to help the individual repent, not punish them.\n\n2. This is also viewed as a biblical sin, despite the fact that some countries and states now recognize such unions as legal. I have met homosexual members of the church, but while they had such feelings they had not acted on them and therefore it was not an issue. If one engages in an intimate relationship with another person, then it would be treated the same as number 1. \n\n3. LDS people can use birth control. It is a personal, prayerful choice that is to be made by the person/couple using it.\n\n4. The Church's stance on abortion is that it does not condone abortion except in instances such as rape, incest and the possiblity of death to the mother and child. Even in these sitautions, the person involved is counseled to pray ernestly for guidance on the matter to try to understand the Lord's will.\n \nAs you point out, having a child out of wedlock is not ideal either and is the result of sin. Since the Church does not condone abortions, it encourages members to place children up for adoption to a loving family. The Church has an organization called LDS social services which helps in matters such as these. I have some good friends who have not been able to have children. They adopted a beautiful boy from a young LDS girl and it has been the best thing for everyone involved.\nThat said, many LDS girls choose to keep their babies and do the best that they can. It is not an easy road, but the church is very service oriented and the single lds moms probably get a lot more help than their non-lds single mom counterparts.\n\nI joined the Chruch during my senior year of highschool. I came from a very rough background, to say the least. While I was concerned about some of these same issues, I found that I was strengthened and did not have trouble with any of them. It has been the best decision of my life. \n\nPlease let me know if I can answer any other questions for you. Good luck.\n\nwhapingmon@yahoo.com
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Non-believer here:\n\nIt makes me mad, because their sadness is indicative of a culturally superior attitude.  They're superior therefore anyone else who doesn't beieve ilke them needs to be "saved" and shown the Ight, else they are going to burn for all eternity.\n\nThey don't seem to realize that others might think that THEY are going to burn and need to be saved; the notion that they might be wrong doesn't seem to occur to them.\n\nThey obliterated so many beautiful cultures "spreading their word" and we lost so much diversity.  If they wouldn't convert, kill them.  Burn them.  And burning is one of the most horrific ways to go, physiologically speaking.  We lost the Aztecs and their civilization, we lost so much of the native American cultures, and the Pacific Islanders, and Africans.  Hel, in the "land of Freedom", native Americans weren't allowed to practice their religion unti the 1930's!\n\nAnd why did the Puritains come here?\n\nAnd they continue to destroy--they won't allow for homosexuals to marry, they want to outlaw a woman's right to her body (I had an abortion and I am not at all sorry about it!), etc\n\nPlus, the whole Christian mythology is just ludicrus; it's as valid as the Greeks and the Persians and the Osage cosmologies, except less entertaining and a whole lot more insulting to my intelligence.  I mean, God loves you, but you gotta accept that because you like women as you do men, you're going to burn.  If you don't accept Jesus as your savior, you're gunna burn.  If you take God's name in vain, you're gunna burn.\n\nYeah, God loves me.\n\n(BTW I do believe in God, but not like most people here do)
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Yes. And I know the religious arguments set forth by some in certain faiths against such things. But I also know that many religions accept such things as normal, even good. I have experienced, first hand, such communications. I wonder if the religious folks who say its wrong can do that? I mean, base what they say about in on actual personal experience, rather than what someone else said in a book written in a different language, in a different culture, centuries ago? Probably not. But that's OK, they can believe what they want. I do. And I know, from my own experience, that people who have passed on can and do communicate. Spirit communication with departed souls is a very real thing. And can be a very wonderful experience.. And its them, not some "fallen angel" or "evil spirit" pretending to be them. How do I know THAT? I've talked with them.
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They are wrong, and they won't go to Heaven I'm afraid.  It says in the Bible that nothing is to be added yet they went and made a whole extra testament!  Also, what's all that rubbish about Mormons inheriting their own planet when they die?  I have a former Mormon friend, who is now a Christian, he uses the analogy that Mormonism is like seeing a cardboard cut-out of The Beatles, whereas Christianity is like meeting them in person - there is just no comparison.  Sorry Mormons, you are wrong...you need to get yourself a personal relationship with Jesus or your off to Hell.
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Yeah, we do.  They just don't want to associate with us, because they think we're wierd or whacked out.  But actually, we're not...I think that they should realize that we are the original Christians- they are the ones that broke off only about 500 years ago.  Before, the only Christians were Catholics.  Yeah, we're definitely Christian...wait, what do you mean, we aren't baptised?  Yeah we are!  "I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit..."  Dude, check your sources before saying stupid stuff like that.  Catholics don't get baptised...gosh...
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Because they are dumb and don't understand why Jesus told us to baptise:\n\n1Pe 3:21  Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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The dead do not come back and visit us.  They may be feeling spirits, but it's not their departed relatives.  It is demonic and is meant to lure you into false teaching.  Don't believe it.\n\nLuke 16:19-31 tells it well.  When Jesus used parables, He did not use names for the people in the story.  This is a true account and not a parable.  The man wanted to come back and couldn't.  If people could come back, they would only be declaring the Gospel I believe.
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yes it does.\n\nwhile you would not be renouncing GOd or Christ, you are renouncing the tennants of the Catholic church so.... you would be a mormon, not a Catholic.
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I know what you mean.  Why just the other day I was in the process of making a burnt offering an ox on the alter that I have erected on my front lawn (To get the Lord to rig the next power ball drawing for me, as per the bible, book of Carbonization, 23-10), when I was accosted by a pair of LDS missionaries.  They actually had the audacity to interrupt my opening benediction to ask if I was interested in their religion, and whats more, their caterwauling frightened the ox, who snapped his restraints and bolted, leaving me with a roaring fire, some very sharp knives, and two belligerent missionaries.\n\nAs I am sure you can guess, this sort of threw off my rhythm, and basically ruined the sacrifice.  Whats more, they refused to buy me another ox to sacrifice in place of the one that they had frightened off.  \n\nI just can't understand it.  I mean, I let them practice their religion in peace, why can they not extend the same courtesy to me?
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Isn't that a Mormon church? If it is, then it's full of morons. The Bible clearly says not to add or take away any part of it, and they just decided to write their own version.