Will Pope Benedict become a Mormon after he dies?

Mail & Guardian ^ | 5 Feb 07 | Tom Heneghan

[Larry Lucido]

However, if Mormonism is the one true religion, then it's fine that someone baptizes me after death.

Wasn't there a South Park episode where God tells everyone on Judgment Day "Oh, by the way, the Mormons were right all along."

[Iscool]

Family reunions must be fun...

They can baptize me til the cows come home if it'll make them feel better...

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Seems just as legitimate as baptizing days old babies..."

Or circumcising days-old Jewish boys?

[Mrs. Don-o]

"If through a ritual someone can turn fermented hooch and a cracker into the body and blood of God, and then claim to eat the actual body and blood of God, anything's possible..."

I'd love to see you debate this with that guy in John 6.

[xzins]

Since I don't think it has any effect whatsoever, I don't really care one way or the other.

I find the belief interesting, but I don't find it to be biblical.

I find it to be inconsistent with grace through faith.

[ArrogantBustard]

Pray for the conversion of those who blaspheme against Our Lord Jesus Christ, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

More to the point of this article, I'll note that no matter how nutty I might consider their theology, I've never met a Mormon/LDS who was not by his personal demeanor an excellent ambassador for his particular faith.

[Tax-chick]

I'm sure the Holy Father will sigh and shake his head over this in the hereafter.

[wagglebee]

This has outraged Jews and baffled Christians who see it as usurping the memory of their departed relatives. The LDS says it cannot stem the tide of dead baptised in its own temples.

They can STOP DOING IT and prohibit the practice.

[marshmallow]

Mormons can "baptize" me when I'm dead. And I can pray for deceased Mormons. Or I could place their names in a book and commend it to the intergalactic Klingon empire. So what?

Wild theories about the afterlife make good copy in Zimbabwe, I guess.

[xzins]

They believe it is biblical. (1 Corinthians 15)

See marshmallow's #29. He/she has it exactly.

I think it's an interesting comparative religion article.

Theologically, it means that there was absolutely no point in Jesus' sacrifice.

[CholeraJoe]

I wonder if anyone will baptize Saddam?

[xzins]

He's not even at 95 days yet, much less 95 years. :>)

I'll bet you'd be hard pressed to find a Mormon who's related to him, though.

[AliVeritas]

If Muslims can get 72 virgins, why not?

I thought the point of heaven was to get away from your wife? Kidding of course.

Nah, no marriage or being taken in marriage on the other side... as far as I know.

I wonder if they go by obituaries as well? A lot of folks have no religious affiliation. I guess if they were EMTs or ER employees they could baptize before they died... or after.

[xzins]

I think you have to be related to the person you get baptized for. That's why they do all the geneological research.

That point isn't entirely rational either. Since the Mormons believe in the Noah story, they have to believe that everyone is some level of distant relative.

[marshmallow]

If through a ritual someone can turn fermented hooch and a cracker into the body and blood of God, and then claim to eat the actual body and blood of God, anything's possible...

True.

How about a man rising from the dead?

That's pretty far-fetched too, aint it?

[Running On Empty]

Be prepared for 70 times 7

[xzins]

Seriously, though, Harley, what does this say about the necessity of Christ's sacrifice?

[steadfastconservative]

What a nutty religion. The idea that a dead person can be baptized or married is ludicrous. Maybe this is the only way that Mormons can get anyone to join their cult, I mean, church.

[Iscool]

I forgive you for your comment about the Holy Eucharist.

Doesn't matter one way or the other to me...

I am filled with the 'real presence' of Jesus Christ 24/7 as are all Christians who have called upon the name of the Lord to save them...We have been adopted into the Family...God is our father...We do not need a cannibalistic sacrifice of our God to remain or continue in the family or to come in contact with the presence of Jesus...

We are there, man...It's all over but the rocket ride...My address is Gold Ave, Heaven...My home is a mansion...

And when God says, 'Come up hither', I'll be lifting off in the twinkling of an eye...

[wagglebee]

If through a ritual someone can turn fermented hooch and a cracker into the body and blood of God, and then claim to eat the actual body and blood of God, anything's possible...

Are you saying that Are you saying that it would not be possible for God to Transubstantiate Himself in the Eucharist? Or do you believe that Transubstantiation is possible but that Jesus just lied about it in John 6?