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Why did Mormons baptize Trump's parents & Grandparents when their dead?

Why are they compiling genealogies when the bible forbids it? 1 Tim 1:4

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  • Lesley
    Lv 6
    3 years ago
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    Why? The Latter Day Saints church (Mormons) believes that several ordinances, including baptism, must be fulfilled for a person to be saved. The LDS church also teaches that members in good standing can fulfill these ordinances in the place of ancestors who have passed on without the opportunity to do so. The church says that once the ordinances are fulfilled and the person accepts the gospel of Jesus Christ (even if heard and accepted after death), they can move on to a higher kingdom. LDS members use genealogy to discover who their ancestors are and fulfill the covenants in their stead.

    In 1993, the Church of the Latter-day Saints, in their regular Baptism of the Dead, baptized Adolf Hitler. The Latter-day Church of the True Christ accepted this baptism (in spite of their differences with the LDS). A year later (1994) at Mount Timpaganos Temple, the dictator’s name came through in the list of The Endowed. (Source: ‘The Death of Eli Gold’ by David Baddiel (2011), page 23)

    Is this biblical? No. First, there is only one way to salvation, and that is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ordinances and sacraments are works, and therefore, not required (Ephesians 2:8-9). The second is that no person can earn the salvation of another. “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). It does not come by another being baptized or completing ordinances in your name. There is nothing wrong with studying genealogies. Jesus’ ancestry is given in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. But once a person has passed on, their chance to come to a saving relationship with Christ is over.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Readers must understand. Mormon was a fictitious character, so how do you follow someone who never existed ?

    The Israeli General Mormon fairy tale says he lived in America in 360 AD New York is Joseph Smith's lie of the century. DNA evidence proves that Mormon leaders are not descendants of Israel. The scroll was later found to prove that the Mormon "Book of Abraham" was a complete fraud by Joseph Smith.

    Joseph Smith required that all his followers give their homes and farm land to his cult so he could control them. Joseph Smith's control was so great that he could openly have sex with all the wives and daughters of the hundreds of families in his new cult.

    Joseph Smith also taught that he was greater than Jesus, that Jesus is Satan's brother, and Jesus isn't God and coming back to judge the world at all as it clearly states in the book of Revelation. Joseph also said tall 1,000 yr. old Quaker dressed people live on the moon.

    Prophet Brigham Young taught people live on the sun, Adam was God, John the Baptist came back to bestow a priesthood on Joseph Smith, and Peter, James & John came back to make Melchizedeks out of Joseph and Oliver Cowdrey.

    Mormon cult members rac, rrosskopf, Neerp and Publius above are paid to reply to every Mormon question posted on social media.

    Mormon founder Joseph Smith was shot dead after he shot 3 men during his attempted escape from jail in 1844.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith#Death

    Mormons were ordered exterminated in 1838 by the Missouri Governor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_O...

    Complete Mormon library

    www.UTLM.org

    Brigham Young ordered the execution of 120 men, women and children who were on their way to California from back east. He told his men to dress as Indians during the murders so the Mormons would not be implicated. Mountain Meadows Massacre of reported Missourians was in retaliation of Joseph Smith's being killed there and the state governor ordering the Mormon extermination in 1838.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_mas...

  • 3 years ago

    Salvation for the Dead is an important, although often neglected, part of Christianity.

  • 3 years ago

    IT is part of what they do, because they believe that we are all just one big family. Didn;t know that the Trump Ancestors had been admitted to the Temple, will have to check on this,

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    They're retarded.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    they're, not their. Learn basic grammar. Is everyone here illiterate?

  • 3 years ago

    The Bible contains genealogies from Adam to David to Jesus, why in the world would you think it "forbids it"? On the other hand, baptizing ancestors is their belief, can you provide objective evidence that supports your beliefs being more correct? (Hint: the Bible is not objective evidence, for obvious reasons, like a lack of evidence for it's claims).

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    The Bible doesn't forbid it, it tells you its a waste of time to argue it. Lineages are extremely important in the Bible for affirming the divinity of Christ and God's promises to Abraham, Issiac, and Jake.

  • 3 years ago

    Did Trump know or prove of this? I have not heard it and one TV news stations I have is a Christian one.

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