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Taking the sacrament is to renew the covenant made at baptism. Those who have not been baptized into our church don’t have a covenant to renew so they can partake of it if they wish, but there is no spiritual benefit (or harm) to them in doing so. Parents are encouraged to have their unbaptized children to take it as a means of developing a good habit and teaching them what it is about.

My, My...seems like some arguments from the past are being disputed here: Those who have not been baptized into our church

Inmans, have we NOT been told often that the "baptism" is into the BODY OF CHRIST and NOT into the LDS church?

Christians, what CHURCH are YOU baptized into?

AND, I have been told that baptism for the dead is NOT baptism INTO the LDS church.

I honestly get the impression that LDS members are told many different things, whatever works best at the moment or is believed by whoever they are talking to, since the theology is so malleable. I see many different answers to the same question when I go to different Mormon sites or compare them to views here, or between the Mormons here. I’ve repeated verbatim what Morman A says and had Mormon B “ROFL” because he thinks I don’t know Mormonism (when it is the Mormons who don’t have any coherence or consistency). I would bet that the Doctrines and Covenants are chock full of inconsistencies so that it is impossible to construct a theology that is consistent. The theology depends on what problem you are addressing! I get the impression of sort of a Rorshach theology where you can see anything you want. I’ve never seen any awareness that there is another point of view on a theological matter, like you will see among Catholics or Protestants or whoever in the Christian world, where they say “we believe X and they believe Y.” Instead it’s ROFL . . . you think we believe WHAT?

Inmans, have we NOT been told often that the "baptism" is into the BODY OF CHRIST and NOT into the LDS church? Christians, what CHURCH are YOU baptized into?

Romans 6:3: Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

“Inmans, have we NOT been told often that the “baptism” is into the BODY OF CHRIST and NOT into the LDS church?”

We consider the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be the only true and living church on the face of the earth today, hence baptism into the church is baptism into the body of Christ.

“AND, I have been told that baptism for the dead is NOT baptism INTO the LDS church.”

The church is the earthly kingdom of God. If someone died, had a baptism for the dead done on their behalf, and they accept that ordinance making it valid, they become part of the kingdom of God and the body of Christ, but not part of God’s earthly kingdom as they have already died.