Baptism for the Dead
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- ..."the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers."
- "If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming."
- "the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children"
- Welding link based on baptisms for dead.
- "For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel also"
- "it is necessary ... that a whole and complete and perfect union, and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take place, and be revealed from the days of Adam even to the present time."
- "Now that seal is the water of baptism into which men go down under the obligation to death, but come up appointed to life. For that reason, to those also was this seal preached, and they made use of it so they might enter the kingdom of God."
- Tad R. Callister, "The Inevitable Apostasy", pp. 236-242
- Discussion of the existence of this ordinance in the early church and it's loss via the apostasy.
- Discusses why baptism for the dead is needed and how it solves an important problem for Christianity. In doing so, it is also a sign of the true church.