Religion Today
2023-06-18 Religion Today - Baptism for the Dead, in Early Christianity, the Bible, Scholarship, its Origins in the LDS Faith, and as Practiced Now (NDE invitation)
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- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:21:00
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Synopsis
In this episode of Religion Today, host Martin Tanner first describes baptism for the dead as practiced in Early Christianity. He provides references to vicarious ordinances in the Apocrypha, 2 Maccabees 12:39-46 and the meaning of 1 Corinthians 15:29 in the LDS Faith, and among modern scholars. He describes how Joseph Smith's revealed the ordinance of baptism for the dead in an 1840 funeral sermon, as a comfort to a widow in the audience, who's un-baptized son had recently died. Martin describes how the practice is different in a few details from when first practiced. He concludes with some of the many examples of notable, famous and infamous persons for whom baptism for the dead has been performed.