I've noticed in your threads that when a Mormon comes to defend their position they completely and summarily dismiss any scholarly refute of Mormonism. They are usually arrogant, consider themselves the only true patriots and mock rather than have a real debate. Thanks for posting. I've noticed the same thing on virtually EVERY encounter I've had with them, not just on this forum, but every forum where there are Mormons. They dismiss, behave like nobody knows what they're talking about except them (though they don't refute anything or add anything), and mock like crazy.
They are usually arrogant, consider themselves the only true patriots and mock rather than have a real debate. Thanks for posting. I've noticed the same thing on virtually EVERY encounter I've had with them, not just on this forum, but every forum where there are Mormons. They dismiss, behave like nobody knows what they're talking about except them (though they don't refute anything or add anything), and mock like crazy.
This mormon attitude comes from the ingrained belief that as mormons they are superior to everyone else in the world. Mormons are brainwashed from toddlers on up with the mantra that they belong to the "one true church on earth"! They are taught that their god(s) require that they MUST even go back to the time of the first earthly humans and "baptize" by proxy, and through arcane mormon temple rituals enter by proxy every soul that ever lived into their sect.
“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).
“The work of saving the dead has practically been reserved for the dispensation of the fullness of times, when the Lord shall restore all things. It is, therefore, the duty of the Latter-day Saints to see that it is accomplished. WE cannot do it all at once, but will have the 1,000 years of the millennium to do it in. In that time the work must be done in behalf of the dead of the previous 6,000 years, for all who need it.” (Lds “prophet” Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 2:166) (H/T colofornian)
Mormonism belief is that the "Gospel of Jesus Christ" was removed from the earth and "restored" by Joseph Smith. This baptism of the dead is its method of "saving" departed souls...and also coincidentally keeps the coffers of the mormon church full by requiring (and proving) payment of tithing to the church before a member can enter these temples to perform these "proxy" baptisms.