För vem gillar att bli tillsagd hur du ska leva ditt liv och inte. Det är svårt nog att säga till en människa att den agerar fel, tänk då om du skulle be dom avstå från vissa saker för att det är Guds vilja.

Jag gör det för att för mig så finns det inget viktigare än vår Himmelske Fader. Det finns ingen större på denna jord och att följa hans vilja gör jag med glädje. Vissa dagar är svårare än andra, men jag gör iaf mitt bästa. Och det jag "offrar" är inte ens hälften så viktigt för mig i slutänden ändå.

Jag hör vissa säga "jag skulle aldrig klara att leva utan t.ex kaffe, ciggaretter m.m" Men inte nog med att du offrar din hälsa är det verkligen viktigare än Gud? Ja alla har vi prioriteringar och jag vet iaf vad jag står. Och jag dömer igen, människor får gärna hinka 3l kaffe om dagen för mig personligen jag tänker inte säga vad dom får och inte får göra.

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Av C - 8 februari 2011 08:59

Jag har inte varit medlem i Jesu Kristi Kyrka så jätte länge men jag har redan märkt stora skillnader i mitt liv och vilka välsignelser man kan få genom att följa Jesus Kristus.

Jag har fått massor med nya underbara vänner som har ställt upp och hjälpt mig. Jag lär mig hela tiden mer om mig själv och lär mig att sakta men säkert att bli en bättre människa. Jag kommer även att få mera jobb och som jag bett om detta så det kunde inte komma mer lägligt.

Så det verkar som mitt liv kan börja att ordna upp sig. Om ni tror att jag levt som en redig Molly Mormon i mitt liv så tror ni väldigt fel. Jag flyttade hemifrån när jag var 15 år och jag har varit med om mycket som jag inte önskar någon annan människa och detta har ju naturligtvis format mig och gjort mig till en människa som jag egentligen inte ville vara och tack vare det så har jag gjort många felsteg och val i mitt liv som inte alltid var för mitt bästa. Men nu känns det som om jag kan börja våga tro på livet igen och framför allt på mig själv. Detta är enbart tack vare kyrkan och allt jag blivit undervisad om.

Jag älskar verkligen att få kalla mig medlem i Jesu Kristi Kyrka! Förutom min dotter, såklart, så är det är det bästa jag har i mitt liv och jag är stolt över mig själv att jag vågade ta steget att döpas när inte en enda människa i min närhet är troende. Jag hade ju inte en aning om hur människor skulle döma mig. Men en viktig sak har jag lärt mig... Det spelar ingen roll hur andra människor ser på mig det som är viktigt är hur Gud ser på mig.

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Av C - 5 februari 2011 21:52

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Av C - 5 februari 2011 10:13

Jesus Christ taught that baptism is essential to the salvation of all who have lived on earth (see John 3:5). Many people, however, have died without being baptized. Others were baptized without proper authority. Because God is merciful, He has prepared a way for all people to receive the blessings of baptism. By performing proxy baptisms in behalf of those who have died, Church members offer these blessings to deceased ancestors. Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in their behalf.

Jesus Christ said, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). Even Jesus Christ Himself was baptized (see Matthew 3:13-17).

Many people have lived on the earth who never heard of the gospel of Jesus Christ and who were not baptized. Others lived without fully understanding the importance of the ordinance of baptism. Still others were baptized, but without proper authority.

Because He is a loving God, the Lord does not damn those people who, through no fault of their own, never had the opportunity for baptism. He has therefore authorized baptisms to be performed by proxy for them. A living person, often a descendant who has become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is baptized in behalf of a deceased person. This work is done by Church members in temples throughout the world.

Some people have misunderstood that when baptisms for the dead are performed, deceased persons are baptized into the Church against their will. This is not the case. Each individual has agency, or the right to choose. The validity of a baptism for the dead depends on the deceased person accepting it and choosing to accept and follow the Savior while residing in the spirit world. The names of deceased persons are not added to the membership records of the Church.

The New Testament indicates that baptisms for the dead were done during the time of the Apostle Paul (see 1 Corinthians 15:29). This ordinance was restored with the establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Detta är ett tal av D. Todd Christofferson som också förklarar det bra.

Christian theologians have long wrestled with the question, What is the destiny of the countless billions who have lived and died with no knowledge of Jesus?

¹ With the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ has come the understanding of how the unbaptized dead are redeemed and how God can be “a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.”

²While yet in life, Jesus prophesied that He would also preach to the dead.

³ Peter tells us this happened in the interval between the Savior’s Crucifixion and Resurrection.

⁴ President Joseph F. Smith witnessed in vision that the Savior visited the spirit world and “from among the righteous [spirits] … organized his forces and appointed messengers, clothed with power and authority, and commissioned them to go forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness. …

“These were taught faith in God, repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins, [and] the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands.”

⁵The doctrine that the living can provide baptism and other essential ordinances to the dead, vicariously, was revealed anew to the Prophet Joseph Smith.

⁶ He learned that the spirits awaiting resurrection are not only offered individual salvation but that they can be bound in heaven as husband and wife and be sealed to their fathers and mothers of all generations past and have sealed to them their children of all generations future. The Lord instructed the Prophet that these sacred rites are appropriately performed only in a house built to His name, a temple.

⁷The principle of vicarious service should not seem strange to any Christian. In the baptism of a living person, the officiator acts, by proxy, in place of the Savior. And is it not the central tenet of our faith that Christ’s sacrifice atones for our sins by vicariously satisfying the demands of justice for us? As President Gordon B. Hinckley has expressed: “I think that vicarious work for the dead more nearly approaches the vicarious sacrifice of the Savior Himself than any other work of which I know. It is given with love, without hope of compensation, or repayment or anything of the kind. What a glorious principle.”

⁸Some have misunderstood and suppose that deceased souls “are being baptised into the Mormon faith without their knowledge”

⁹ or that “people who once belonged to other faiths can have the Mormon faith retroactively imposed on them.”

¹⁰ They assume that we somehow have power to force a soul in matters of faith. Of course, we do not. God gave man his agency from the beginning.

¹¹ “The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God,”

¹² but only if they accept those ordinances. The Church does not list them on its rolls or count them in its membership.

Our anxiety to redeem the dead, and the time and resources we put behind that commitment, are, above all, an expression of our witness concerning Jesus Christ. It constitutes as powerful a statement as we can make concerning His divine character and mission. It testifies, first, of Christ’s Resurrection; second, of the infinite reach of His Atonement; third, that He is the sole source of salvation; fourth, that He has established the conditions for salvation; and, fifth, that He will come again.

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