IS MORMON BAPTISM OF THE DEAD BIBLICAL? Just to clarify, Mormons do not drag corpses into their temples for this ritual of theirs. But their practice of baptism for the dead is still a non-biblical belief. Mormons do it as a supposed means of making a public profession of faith "on behalf" of a person that is already deceased. The obvious problem parallels the reason we don't accept infant baptism as a means of salvation: an infant can't make a confession of faith. At those ceremonies, when the baby fails to accept or reject Jesus, you just get a wet baby. As Protestants, that's why we reject infant baptism. But at least infants are alive. So, as a discerning Christian, if you reject baby baptism wouldn’t you also say dead folks are not able to profess faith? And if they do, run! As a supposedly-Christian religion, why would the cult of Mormonism have a weird ritual for a dead person when there are only two outcomes at the moment of death—heaven or hell. And you stay there since it can’t be reversed. But today it’s popular to soften the harshness of hell. Saying a corpse can have a second chance may sound good and work better for recruiting followers but it eliminates the reality of hell looming as a huge motivator to get saved. When a Mormon follower does not seek salvation in their life because he or she just relies on their kids to baptize their corpse, who in the Mormon organization will take responsibility for teaching them not to worry about the eternal hell they end up in?