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Originally posted by ASUADPi
This might sound like a really dumb question, but if they know what you just stated, why do they waste their time proxy baptizing people?
If they are baptizing the Jews who died in the Holocaust, one should expect that these people "on the other side" are not going the accept the gospel of any other religion.
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Looking at it from a Mormon point of view, once the person has died, they would realize what the afterlife is really like and would see that, if they want to ascend to the higher levels of the afterlife, they must respond favorably to the preaching of the Gospel that they will encounter in the afterlife.
FWIW, a quick overview of the afterlife as understood by Mormons:
After death, believers go to Paradise, unbelievers to Spirit Prison. Missionaries will leave Paradise to preach the Gospel in Spirit Prison. If the people in Spirit Prison respond positively to this preaching and repent of their sins, they can go to Paradise as Mormons
if a proxy has been baptised for them.
At the end of the world, those who rebelled against Heavenly Father in the pre-mortal life (according to Mormon belief, everyone was a pre-mortal spirit child prior to birth) will be "cast out" and everyone else will progress to one of three levels of glory:
-- The Telestial Kingdom is for those who lived spiritually average lives (or worse). The Telestial Kingdom will be better than Earth, but not as good as the other two kingdoms.
-- The Terrestrial Kingdom is for virtuous unbelievers, as well as Mormons who "know the truth" but haven't lived it.
-- The Celestial Kingdom is for good and faithful Mormons. This Kingdom also has three levels; those in the highest level, whose marriages must have been "sealed" in a Mormon Temple (Temple Marriages can also be sealed by proxy), will be joined by their families and can beget their own spirit children and organize their own worlds, of which they will be gods.
And just for the record: I don't believe it, I'm just trying to explain it.