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From the Old and New Testament:
Malachi 4:4-6
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"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the Lord:"

"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Hebrews 11:39-40
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"And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:"

"God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

I Corint 15:29
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"Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?"

I Peter 3:18-19
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"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:"

"By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;"

I Peter 4:6
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"For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."

Matthew 16:19
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And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

I Peter 4:6 speaks of when Jesus went to those in sheol and preached and these could then be judged as if men in the flesh ... and they didn't need a baptism to be judged. But I'm sure someone in Mormonism has taught you that such a verse in Peter--out of the whole Bible--and a verse in ICorinthians 15 are absolutely proof that Mormonism baptism for the dead is essential for the salvation of some who heard not the gospel or heard it and recieved it not during their life in the flesh.

Mormonsim sets Jesus aside and makes your church of Smith fabrications the source of Salvation and righteousness, doing violence to the Salvation of Grace in Christ by faith ONLY in Him. Your church is neither a source of God's righteousness nor of God's Salvation. Jesus is the author and finisher. Joseph Smith was a false prophet, a liar, an adulterer, and he has lead too many astray already. Now is the time to oppose this cult at every opportunity brought to the fore by the candidacy of Mitt Romney, Mormon cult follower extraordinaire.

If you want your church to claim Matt16:19 you'll have to get in line behind at least the Catholic Church which has been around a whole lot longer and accounting for millions and millions of Saved before your false prophet was even born.