Baptism for the Dead

All Christians believe that through faith and through the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ that their sins are forgiven and they will be resurrected. This is called PROXY. Through the act of Christ, it has effect on us, through Faith. In fact, the principle is the same for the belief held by most Christians who believe that the sins of Adam, are on the heads of all men since the time of Adam. In the Old Testament, when they sacrificed the firstling of their flock, it, also was sufficient as a proxy. What this means based on that common belief is that the acts of others or proxy is 100% biblical and indeed does have an effect on those that preceded or followed.


Mormons, in fact, are not the only Christian religion that believes in proxy Baptism for the Dead. In fact, the Catholic church practiced Baptism for the dead until the fourth century. Other early Christian groups also practiced this, until it, like other doctrines, were slowly lost. Some Christian churches still have intercessory prayers for the dead to help those who have died for their salvation. Most Christian churches have some element of this when they pray for the deceased, give final rites etc. or even pray to heal someone who is sick. Through their prayers, they are asking for the mercy of God to bless them, as though Christ himself were there to heal them.

To fully understand this, specifically on Baptism for the Dead, our belief comes from modern day prophets. Whenever God has had authorized persons on the earth, he has given them revelation. This is 100% biblical. So to fully comprehend this, you need to believe God still talks to prophets. There is nowhere that it says he won't call prophets, and in fact consistency would prove that he still would. Jesus told Peter in Matt 16:19 that "whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven.”

Redeeming the Dead

2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

1 Peter 3:18-20
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Isaiah 42:6-7
Speaking of the covenant of work for the dead by proxy
6I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.


1 Peter 4:5-6
5Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Ephesians 1:10
10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Hebrews 11:39-40
Saints, or followers of Christ are tasked with this great work.
39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

1 Corinthians 15:29
29Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

1 Corinthians 15:19
19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

John 5:25;28
25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

Malachi 4:5-6
5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Psalms 16:9-10
9Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 4:10-12
10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Mark 16:16
16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

John 3:3-7
3Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Philippians 2:9-11
AT JUDGEMENT EVERYONE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE CHRIST, EVEN IF THEY NEVER LEARNED OF HIM WHILE ALIVE.
9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Revelations 5:13
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Revelations 20:12-13
12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: