Silly Rabbis, now the mormons have 850 more Jewish names to dead dunk.
I couldn’t care less if some yardbird was dunking people for me after my death.
“If the dead rise not at all” makes the verse clear to me. The first part must deal with the 2nd part.
“If the dead rise not at all why baptize for the dead?”
Why do I baptize what will be a bunch of dead people if the dead don’t rise at all?