An important question here from a listener named Candace on the topic of proxy beptisms

in Mormon practice.

Pastor John I've been sharing my faith with a few Mormon friends, and I'm deeply concerned

for their souls and for their theology, as many have already discovered the teachings,

history, and doctrines of the Latter-day Saints are alarming, a far cry from authentic

biblical Christianity.

So far I've made a clear to them from Scripture that the Mormon God and the Mormon Jesus are

very different from the God and Jesus of the Bible.

Their pathway to salvation is works based, and their assertion about the legitimacy of

doing work for the dead seems horribly off and rancid.

However, I don't know how to navigate a conversation on this subject, particularly

baptism for the dead as it's mentioned in verse Corinthians 1529.

Can you guide me through how you would address this verse?

Well, it sounds to me like Candace may be ahead of me in my I don't I have never gone

very deep into Mormon thinking, but let me try to say something helpful just in general

and then maybe about that particular issue of how they relate to the dead.

It is very difficult to interact about the intricacies of doctrine with someone who is

operating from a different source of authority, as the Mormons are when they add revelation

to the Bible.

You feel frustrated because it seems like you have to become an expert in their sources

in order to make any headway when you don't believe those sources are valid.

So I think at some points, the average believer in the sufficiency of scripture must simply

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