Welcome to part two with Dr. Daniel Peterson, first Corinthians 14 through 16.

It reminds me of in the early days of the church we would send missionaries out.

We knew we had to preach the gospel to all the world and so I've read of stories where

people would arrive on the docks in Bombay and they'd just get off the boat, preach a

sermon at the docks, then get back on the boat to go on and now India could be checked

off the list. And I think the Lord has taught us since then, no. That doesn't count as having

preached the gospel to India. You've got to actually reach people and likewise we don't do

batches in the temples. You've got to reach individual people and teach them and baptize them

and it's not going to be as easy as you thought in the old days though. Well in a couple of years

we can land on every island and preach the gospel at the dock and leave.

So the bad sense for the dead and the temple is about our theology of that the Savior truly

cares about each individual. It's a theological argument. Exactly. We are not mass people and even

people who lived thousands of years ago, he remembers them. They are remembered, they're important

and they had stories and we act on behalf of them. But there was a story I wanted to tell about

first Corinthians 1529 that I like. And that is when the encyclopedia of Mormonism was being done,

they really really wanted Christa Stendall to write an article on baptism for the dead

among non-Laturday Saints, how people viewed it. Truman Madson knew him really well and so he

wrote to him and asked him, would you write this article? And Stendall, who was the, he'd been the

Dean of Harvard Divinity School, he was the Lutheran Bishop of Stockholm and so on and so forth,

I don't have time to do this. I just don't have time. And Truman kept writing to him and saying,

come on, it doesn't have to be long, doesn't have to be involved. Stendall kept saying, no, I just

don't have time. And then Truman said to him and Truman told me the story. He wrote to him and said,

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