Topic: I'm a recent convert from Baptist to Latter Day Saint, and I'm going to the temple soon
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago#108,806
I'm new to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I'm going to the temple soon but I have a few questions about the temple and I would very much appreciate all answers.
1. Is it okay if I visit the temple just to witness its glory, but do not perform baptisms for the dead? I find it daunting to perform such a powerful and glorious thing, and also have a few fears about it.
2. If I am baptized for my grandparents, but they are in Baptist heaven, would that remove them from their current heaven? Also, since they are Baptists but I am LDS, will my grandparents and I get to see each other in the afterlife?
3. By baptizing myself for my grandparents, would I risk separating them from each other in the afterlife?
4. What happens if my grandparents and I end up in a separate level of heaven? Would we still get to see each other?
5. Also, I have made sins since my baptism and since receiving the temple recommend, but have repented of them. I drank coffee after my baptism but haven't for a week and a half, and I did repent for it. I also allowed my envy of someone's internship and perfect grades enrage me and I said bad words because of it, but I did repent and have since controlled my thoughts. Am I worthy of entering the temple? And if I am not, but do enter the temple and am baptized for them anyways, would that harm them in any kind of way?
> I'm new to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I'm going to the temple soon but I have a few questions about the temple and I would very much appreciate all answers. > > 1. Is it okay if I visit the temple just to witness its glory, but do not perform baptisms for the dead? I find it daunting to perform such a powerful and glorious thing, and also have a few fears about it.
There's no obligation, the whole process exists to give pretext to their "family history centers" which actually exist to keep track of racial purity and family loyalties. Those centers still operate, but have been superceded somewhat by the Mormon infiltration of the state department and CIA.
> 2. If I am baptized for my grandparents, but they are in Baptist heaven, would that remove them from their current heaven? Also, since they are Baptists but I am LDS, will my grandparents and I get to see each other in the afterlife?
Baptisms for the dead only send send copies of the King James Bible and a "Triple" (Joe Smith's writings) to the deceased. Your grandparents can refuse the books.
> 3. By baptizing myself for my grandparents, would I risk separating them from each other in the afterlife?
Yes, if one of them converts after receiving the scripture and one does not.
> 4. What happens if my grandparents and I end up in a separate level of heaven? Would we still get to see each other?
Each level can gaze down upon the lower levels, but not the reverse. They use the special one-way mirrors focus groups do.
> 5. Also, I have made sins since my baptism and since receiving the temple recommend, but have repented of them. I drank coffee after my baptism but haven't for a week and a half, and I did repent for it.
This is considered a fatal sin if done post-baptism, but you may be fine if it was only Folgers.
> I also allowed my envy of someone's internship and perfect grades enrage me and I said bad words because of it, but I did repent and have since controlled my thoughts. Am I worthy of entering the temple?
Best to find a teen fiance to be safe.
> And if I am not, but do enter the temple and am baptized for them anyways, would that harm them in any kind of way?