Until...the person decides they don't want to be a Mormon.
Then they are outcast and shunned to the extreme.
Not exactly a Christian response.
(We won't talk about how men believe they will be a 'god' over their own planet one day - having multitudes of 'celestial wives' to produce 'spirit babies' to fill their planet).
(We also won't talk about their genealogical efforts for the sole purpose of 'baptizing the dead' into their cult during temple ceremonies).
Once made the mistake of walking into a Mormon temple in Los Angeles and witnessing the gospel of Christ to the menu inside. I have never, ever been under so much spiritual attack. It was extremely stupid to do on my part.
you and me, we'd get jail time if we tried to hide money like this....
lets face it...here on earth there are few "saints" and many criminals and they like to hide in churches....
**(We also won’t talk about their genealogical efforts for the sole purpose of ‘baptizing the dead’ into their cult during temple ceremonies).**
I’ll talk about it: Their interpretation of 1 Cor. 15:29 is a classic example of taking a verse out of the context of the passage and making an erroneous doctrine from it.
In that chapter of the letter, said to be written in about 57 AD, Paul addressed the question of the resurrection, because someone(s) in the Corinthian church was saying that Christ hadn’t risen from the dead.
That would mean that everyone being baptized, was being baptized in vain since Christ was still dead 24 years later (and those that had been baptized, and since died, were baptized in vain). So, Paul said (hypothetically), why then be baptized if the dead rise not.
But, with the church of Joe Smith, baptizing stand-ins for unbaptized dead folk has been a very effective tactic to add members and money.
I’ve only encountered some of their door knockers a couple of times. My method: be just as polite as they are, but don’t let them assume they are representing the ‘high ground’ of scriptural understanding. And 1 Cor. 15:29 is the first place to go, showing them their misinterpretation of it.
Then I tell them to obey Acts 2:38 while they are still alive. When they are dead no one can do it for them.