Yup. The "greatest" Mormon responsibility is to obsess with the dead.
Mormons are you obeying this? Are you doing three-year missions to the dead to outdo your two- year missions to the living?
If I was a gambling person, I could probably wage a million $ that not a single Mormon could name EVERY law mentioned by Lds general authorities on Lds.org. [What a crying shame, 'cause even Joseph Smith said: “We cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know unless we comply with or keep those we have already received.”(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 256.)
And Mormons are shooting for the highest degree by way of perfect obedience??????
As millions of Christians around the world approached that 7-week period between Nov. 19 and Dec. 25 to give to the living in need around the world...Lds Church News was putting out an article about all of the dead...the ones who need no comfort or clothing or food or shelter.
(I guess that new mall the Lds church is building in Salt Lake City can keep the homeless warm for a while...as long as they don't loiter)
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Actually, this Lds General Authority understressed what other Mormon leaders have referenced themselves in this regard...not merely as "agents" -- but "saviors" plural!
And when Mormons use the term “saviors” to describe other Mormons, it’s not a “figurative” or “spiritual” usage:
“When living persons are baptized for the dead, they literally become saviors to others…” (Part of chapter entitled, “How to Become a Savior on Mount Zion: Duty Lesson 12” p. 223 1974-1975 When Thou Art Converted, Strengthen Thy Brethren Study Guide 1974)
And, unlike the Bible, which places a definitive “THE” before Jesus Christ as THE Savior (John 4:42; 1 John 4:14), Mormon “prophets” have long and consistently preached that the Mormon churches produces “saviors” – plural!
* Lds “prophet” John Taylor: " ...we are the ONLY people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;...WE in fact are the saviours of the world..." (Lds "prophet" John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, vol.6, p.163)
* Taylor: "We know something about our progenitors, and God has taught us how to be saviors for them by being baptized for them in the flesh, that they may live according to God in the Spirit” (LDS "prophet" John Taylor, March 20,1870, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 14, 3/20/1870)
* Lds “prophet” Wilford Woodruff: “…YOU will be recognized as Saviors upon Mount Zion…” (Teachings of Presidents: Wilford Woodruff, p. 189, 2004)
* Woodruff: “WE become saviors on Mount Zion as we build temples and receive saving ordinances on behalf of the dead.” (Teachings of Presidents: Wilford Woodruff, p. 187)
* Lds “prophet” Joseph Fielding Smith: “... mortals have to be saviors on Mount Zion, acting by proxy for the dead." (LDS "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, p. 325)
* Lds “prophet” Joseph F. Smith: “Teach your children and let yourselves be taught the fact that it is necessary for you to become saviors upon Mount Zion…” (Joseph F. Smith, Teachings of Presidents: Joseph F. Smith, p. 412, 1998)
* Joseph F. Smith: “…WE have a certain work to do in order to liberate…they…are unprepared for eternal life: we have to open the door for them, by performing ordinances which they cannot perform for themselves, and which are essential to their release from the ‘prison-house,’… (Joseph F. Smith, Ibid, p. 410)
The Christian counterclaim is that Jesus Christ has already done that, minus any ritual mumbo-jumbo performed in a man-made temple. Jesus said His personal temple – one that would zero in on death – and the only real temple worth anything regarding salvation – was the temple of His body (John 2:19-21). That body was laid on the cross. He liberated us and opened the door; we are free to walk out of the “prison-house” of our sin nature, bondage to this world, bondage to Satan, bondage to a fear of death, etc!
Lds “prophet” Joseph F. Smith emphasized that not only do Lds need to perform “EVERY law and every requirement of the (Mormon) gospel” for themselves, but for the dead as well:
“No man can enter into the Kingdom of God but by the door and through the means that Jesus Christ has offered to the children of men. … Not a soul that has ever lived and died from off the face of this earth shall escape a chance to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. If they receive it and obey it, the ordinances of the gospel will be performed for and in their behalf, by their kindred, or their posterity in some generation of time after them, so that EVERY law and EVERY REQUIREMENT of the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be carried out, and the promises and requirements fulfilled for the salvation of the living and also for the salvation of the dead.” (Teachings of Presidents: Joseph F. Smith, p. 307, 1998; original source “Latter-day Saints Follow Teachings of the Savior,” Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, 2 vols. 2:561-562).
(You didn't know that receiving the Gospel was a "performance" and filled with "requirements" galore -- until you heard the version of Mormonism's "gospel" -- did ya?)
P M
"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead."
Ah; yes...
The Grate Commission...
The Dead will be Grateful...
Thank God the Mormons look after their dead. Thanks to them I got a huge, free start on my ancestral tree by using their database.
Joseph Smith said: “We cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know unless we comply with or keep those we have already received.”(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 256.)
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Poor unfortunate Mormons...
How much more easy it is to be a Christian instead...
We have the Ten Commandments...
The first four to do with our worship and relationship with God...
The last six to do with our relationships with other people..
and the LORD Jesus Christ said there were TWO main commandments coming from those Ten...
From the Christian Bible...
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:28-31