Oh jeez, ok, an LDSer. Have a nice day.
It's as plain as the nose on your face, if you have one. Maybe you don't or it's grown so long from lying that you can't see it.
"Else what shall they do which are BIPTIZED FOR THE DEAD, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD?" Based on the fact Paul did not use anything that was not true doctrine to make his points, the Corinthians believed in the resurrection for all and not just Jesus Christ. He also was not calling them out saying baptisms for the dead was wrong.
The question that should be asked at this point is, is baptism necessary for those who have died without the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with an opportunity to accept it and get baptized. First, all saving and exalting ordinances have to be done on earth by live human beings. And, it is completely 100% necessary to be baptized by water and the spirit. Not just one or the other. John 3:5, "JESUS answered, I tell you the truth, unless a man is
born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Even Jesus Christ himself was baptized by water and the Spirit. And, by the way, if you read on i First Corinthians chapter 15, you will see there are 3 levels of heaven as well. The "Kingdom of God" level is the Celestial Level of Glory. To reach the other glory's stated, baptism is not required. There will be many who reject their vicarious baptism even though they have been taught in spirit prison of the dead. Will they then go to hell? Nope, that is where the less valiant will reside after the resurrection of their bodies. But, they will be "SAVED" from the eternities in hell with Satan.
1 Peter 3:18-21, "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: By which also he (Christ) went and preached unto the spirits in prison (spirit prison); Which sometimes 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. (SAVED BY WATER - BAPTISM) 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:"
1 Peter 4:5-6, "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 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"
Not only did Christ go and preach to those who came before him, others would preach to those who came after him until the judgment day in spirit prison. To be judged righteously with those who accepted the gospel and were baptized in life, the dead also must be judged the same way which would include baptism by water. Well, logic and reason would dictate that vicarious baptisms must be done in order for the judgement be righteous. Paul's statement on this was left in. Why? God did not want that to be lost completely as God knew there was going to be an apostasy and doctrines and ordinances would be lost and cease to be done correctly. Ordinance comes from the word "order" which means done correctly with authority. Apostates cannot do anything with authority.
You can make your innuendos and snotty remarks all you want. But, there is nothing non-Biblical about baptizing for the dead. It would be non-Biblical to not baptize for the dead.
