Posted by:
Agate
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Date: November 22, 2013 05:04PM
I have a question regarding "baptism for the dead". I am a nevermo but married to my husband whose family is mostly LDS. Over the years I've read posts about the Jews being offended that the church is baptizing deceased family holocaust victims. Though I understood all the implications of the practice, I never put much credence into it because I believe that it's what you do while you are "living" that affects the outcome of your eternal life. Recently however, I started to thinking about my deceased parents, who were not LDS, and that it is most probable that my very self righteous sister-in-law may have had them baptized. I think the prospect of that has me bothered in a way that I never thought about before. It basically says "you didn't get it right while you were living so here, let us help you get it right now". It usurps the power to choose what is right for you. So my question is this. Is it possible to find out if my parents were actually baptized? Do they appear on a list or something and can you have them removed from that list? Like I said earlier, the practice is hocus pocus to me so it actually doesn't really matter, but it is the principle of the thing.