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1Peter 3:18-20, "18 For 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:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;20 Which 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.
1Peter 4:5-6, "5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For 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.
1Corinthians 15:29, "29 Else 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?
Now, how could spirits of the dead be preached to if they were incapable of hearing and seeing. 1Cor 15:29 make more sense if one could believe their physical ears and eyes. The Saints in Paul's time were baptizing for the dead because Peter and Paul taught that the spirits were living and being preached to. Baptism is an earthly ordinance that has to be performed on this earth by earthly bodies that are living. So, vicariously, in the place of, we are baptized for those who are dead but living and accepting the gospel and Christ in the here after in Paradise.
For those of you who are Christian, why does your Churches not baptize for your dead relatives? In ancient times, the people had these letters written and sent to them. They knew these same words and did the works for their dead. The very same words. Ezekiel 12:2, "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house."
Atheists and Non-Christians can sit this one out.
1Peter 4:5-6, "5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For 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.
1Corinthians 15:29, "29 Else 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?
Now, how could spirits of the dead be preached to if they were incapable of hearing and seeing. 1Cor 15:29 make more sense if one could believe their physical ears and eyes. The Saints in Paul's time were baptizing for the dead because Peter and Paul taught that the spirits were living and being preached to. Baptism is an earthly ordinance that has to be performed on this earth by earthly bodies that are living. So, vicariously, in the place of, we are baptized for those who are dead but living and accepting the gospel and Christ in the here after in Paradise.
For those of you who are Christian, why does your Churches not baptize for your dead relatives? In ancient times, the people had these letters written and sent to them. They knew these same words and did the works for their dead. The very same words. Ezekiel 12:2, "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house."
Atheists and Non-Christians can sit this one out.