John the Baptist baptized with water and foretold of Christ baptizing with the Holy Spirit.
This whole thing doesn’t make any sense to me at all. There is no spirit to be baptized in a dead corpse.
It's this last entry that shows:
Death: 8 SEP 1992 in Stuart, Martin, Florida
Burial: White Chapel Cem, Troy, Oakland, Michigan
LDS Baptism: 19 NOV 1993 Temple: SLAKE
Endowment: 19 NOV 1993 Temple: SLAKE
Then they "sealed" him to her wife posthumously so they could live forever together:
...Sealing Spouse: 10 JUN 1994 in ATLAN
Note: Reason that headline doesn’t match article is that not enough FR characters allotted...so original headline is:
CONFIRMED: Romney Family Had Ann Romney’s Atheist Father Posthumously Baptized Into The Mormon Church
That is the kind of thing that could haunt a candidate, something as insane as that
I’m pretty sure Mormons do this for everybody.
So? My cousin “baptized” my late uncle and her father, into Mormonism over three decades ago. Only the idiots of the family got mad about it.
It is an attempt for the living to offer the dead the opportunity to salvation as a Mormon. It offers hope for the living that their deceased relatives will be able to enter Heaven as a baptized Morman - nothing more.
Got a problem with it? Are you one of my idiot relatives?
Mark my words, the Democrats will use this to try to keep Jews on the reservation in the general election by distracting from Obama's hostility to Israel. Anyone who thinks it's going to be hands off the Mormon stuff in the general election is smoking some very highly concentrated junk.
Who do I contact to baptize my dead cat brother?
Crazier than Scientology!
Vicarious baptism of Barack Obama's mother
In May 2009, it was discovered that President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, "who died in 1995, was baptized posthumously into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day [sic] Saints last year during her son's campaign. ... It is not yet clear whether Obama is troubled by the practice. The White House declined to comment Tuesday [May 5, 2009]."[52] The June 4, 2008 baptism was performed in the Provo Utah Temple, and a week later the ritual of endowment was performed on behalf of Dunham. LDS Church spokesman Scott Trotter confirmed that someone did perform a proxy baptism for Dunham, but said it was "counter to [LDS] Church policy for a church member to submit names for baptism for persons to whom they are not related."[52]
Baptism for the dead or proxy baptism is the religious practice of baptizing a living person on behalf of one who is dead, with the living person acting as the deceased person’s proxy.
Those who practice this rite view baptism as an indispensable requirement to enter the Kingdom of God, and thus practice Baptism for the Dead to give those who have died without ever having had the opportunity to receive baptism the opportunity to receive it by proxy if they wish.
GOT A PROBLEM WITH IT?
The LDS church operates thousands of Family History Centers, as well as an excellent free website, for the purpose of finding records to identify your ancestors. They are used by Mormons to identify deceased non-Mormon ancestors for baptism. Non-Mormons are welcome to use these services, without any pressure to convert to Mormonism. Any genealogy buffs are familiar with (and grateful for) these services.
Does not matter what the Mormon Mit and his cultists did, Ann Romney’s father is still in Hell because he rejected the Lord Jesus Christ in this life: John 3:16 - 18; 1 John 5:10 - 12.
Well, no. You can't convert a dead guy. Sorry.
This man died an athiest and did not repent. He denied God his entire life so what makes these people believe that God knew him when he died? Denial of God or His Son is MORTAL.
You have to be alive and willing to accept God and his Son Jesus Christ. There has to be repentance on behalf of the sinner, not a proxy. Only the living can be baptized. What good is it after the soul has already been judged.
Isn't this a little like Clinton's "I didn't inhale" statement? Doesn't it go to the core of what's wrong with Romney. He's a lifelong Mormon. Can't he stand up and strongly affirm his participation in the ritual of his church?
But they be DEAD!!
What's it gonna hurt??
--MormonDude(At LEAST we ain't PI$$ing on them!)
But they be DEAD!!
What's it gonna hurt??
--MormonDude(At LEAST we ain't http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_1-Kings-16-11/ on them!)
I’m never surprised when someone in a cult carries out cultic rituals.
When Newsweek asked Romney whether he had performed any proxy baptisms in the past, Romney responded “I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”
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More dissembling. He didn’t mention that most LDS ‘baptisms for the dead” are performed by teenagers.
A better question would have been when was the last time you did “Endowments” or “Sealings” for the dead? Those are what adult members who have already been through themselves do, not baptisms.