Jews ask Mormons to stop baptizing dead

Nobody can, or should, be baptized without their permission and without acceptance of what it means to them.

What the LDS' are doing does not, in my opinion, hold any valididty at all and your relatives and, indeed, all Jewish people who have passed will never have any connection with them.

Probably hard to ignore by the Jewish people, but what else could be done?

Do the LDS' baptize in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit? If so, I don't see how they could baptize a Jew who does not accept Jesus as the son of God.

Intrepid wrote:

Nobody can, or should, be baptized without their permission and without acceptance of what it means to them.

What the LDS' are doing does not, in my opinion, hold any valididty at all and your relatives and, indeed, all Jewish people who have passed will never have any connection with them.

Probably hard to ignore by the Jewish people, but what else could be done?

Do the LDS' baptize in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit? If so, I don't see how they could baptize a Jew who does not accept Jesus as the son of God.

Intrepid, other than Baptists who believe in adult baptism, infants and children are baptized into the chosen faith of their parents without any concept of religion whatsoever. In this case, it is LDS family members requesting that their Jewish ancestry be wiped out. I know you're agreeing with the position that these baptisms are wrong, but the statement you made contradicts most Christian baptismal practices.

Thank you very much for understanding what I'm talking about.

I have sent a letter to the Mormon church people inquiring if I might be given a list of the names of male Mormons who have passed away this year so that I might give each of them a symbolic ritual bris. I'm waiting now for those names which should come any day.

hellish experiences were reported by 2 classifications:
atheists and suicides.

distressing NDEs seem to occur about equally to people of both genders and of all ages, educational levels, socioeconomic levels, sexual orientations, spiritual beliefs, religious affiliations, and life experiences

suicide attempters who had an NDE are much less likely to try again. They say they have learned that their lives have purpose. They see life as a gift. When they face hard times, they believe their job is to deal with the problem constructively. They see all life experiences as opportunities to deepen their ability to love and to increase their knowledge.

support and interest groups have developed across North America and in countries elsewhere in the world

I have sent a letter to the Mormon church people inquiring if
I might be given a list of the names of male Mormons who have
passed away this year so that I might give each of them
a symbolic ritual bris. I'm waiting now for those names which should come any day.

Unfortunately, he committed the blunder of dying again, at home,
in the absence of medical supervision; that did not work out as well.

You can't be 'sorta dead'

if you are alive,
then you have missed out on the whole point of death (so to speak).

There are people who have been resuscitated after suffering
a trauma that stopped certain functions such as heart beat and breathing.

The cessation of activity in the parts of the brain that monitor
and control those functions would lead to a permanent conditon we'd consider 'death'.

No-one has presented with total brain death and somehow 'revived'

Dead is dead, we'll all end up that way. Some of us just went
a little too close for comfort - billions more never came back.

billions more never came back.

how would you circumcise the dead
if some LDS nutter decided that it was a requirement to Paradise?

If a man 's car wears out and he starts walking, do u accuse him of being "dead" ?

I do hope you're not holding your breath.

Btw, while visiting Salt Lake City a few years ago I had the privilege [?] of being shown the LDS's geneology project in operation. Vast underground work-rooms with rows and rows of computers on-line, all collecting, sorting and pigeon-holeing data. Printouts bound in easily readable volumes. Very impressive. To what end, I know not. But impressive nonetheless.

One of the core tenets of Mormon faith is that the dead can be baptized into the faith after their passing. Baptism of the dead evolved from the beliefs that baptism is necessary for salvation and that the family unit can continue to exist together beyond mortal life if all members are baptized.