为死人受浸礼论的对比

基督教观点
全部新约圣经只在哥林多前书15章29节提及“为死人受洗”之事，在圣经学者各种解释，最合理的解释是，保罗将错就错，利用他们这种「死人也受洗”」的事来驳斥那些不相信复活真理的人。意即如果那些人不相信信徒将来会复活，却为死人施洗，希望他们得救，将来也有权利享受复活的荣耀，岂非矛盾？但保罗并非同意为死人施洗的荒谬之举。据说，哥林多教会有人如此胡闹，执行为死人施洗，即该人已死，教会仍然为他施洗。正如在他们教会中有种种胡闹的坏行为一样，这不过是一种败坏的行为而已。

摩门教观点
摩门教相信受浸是得救的条件，他们相信，今天的摩门教徒，可以代表那些没有机会接受摩门教洗礼的死人受洗。所以人死后在灵魂监狱里面仍有接受福音的机会。
摩门教教义和新约记载：

「我们相信因为天父的慈爱、仁慈、公义，我们活着的人可以在神圣圣殿中为他们执行救恩的教仪。因为如此，后期圣徒用很多时间和数不清的资源寻找我们已逝的家人，在圣殿中为他们执行洗礼、福音教仪、结婚，和家庭印证。我们相信有着神的帮助，有一天这事工将会扩及到全部的世代，追溯到亚当，将全人类连结成为一个大家庭。

这些教仪不「强迫」任何人加入教会的方式，而是藉由爱而执行这些教义，祖先们可以在教仪执行后决定是否要接受，完全由他们决定。 」 (教义和新约, 138:31-34) 故此，摩门教徒看家庭历史(genealogy)这么重要，因为他们相信家庭能永远在一起，神赐予人在今生建立的亲爱关系，这些关系都可以在死亡后延续。他们认为摩门教徒若不为祖先和其他家人行浸礼，会影响自己个人的救恩。

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Note：
Mormon ‘salvation’ can also be obtained for people who have already died by having someone alive baptized on their behalf. This explains the endless genealogical research carried on by the Mormons. Failure by relatives to attend to this matter on behalf of their deceased relations can imperil their own ‘salvation’.

When the physical body dies, the spirit continues to live. In the spirit world, the spirits of the righteous “are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow” (Alma 40:12). A place called spirit prison is reserved for “those who [have] died in their sins, without a knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets” (Doctrine and Covenants 138:32). The spirits in prison are “taught faith in God, repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins, the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, and all other principles of the gospel that [are] necessary for them to know” (Doctrine and Covenants 138:33–34). If they accept the principles of the gospel, repent of their sins, and accept ordinances performed in their behalf in temples, they will be welcomed into paradise. (from lds website)

But behold, from among the righteous, he 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, even to all the spirits of men; and thus was the gospel preached to the dead.
(Doctrine and Covenants 138:33–34).

31 And the chosen messengers went forth to declare the acceptable day of the Lord and proclaim liberty to the captives who were bound, even unto all who would repent of their sins and receive the gospel.

32 Thus was the gospel preached to those who had died in their sins, without a knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets.

33 These were taught faith in God, repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins, the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands,

34 And all other principles of the gospel that were necessary for them to know in order to qualify themselves that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. (D & C 138:30-34)