Hawaii · Japan
Why Latter-day Saints baptize for the dead, and my family history miracle.
After discovering the names of my great-grandmother’s first husband and his family in Japan, my son performed proxy baptisms for them in…
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Baptism for the Dead
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Ghana
The dead were asking for baptism years before the Church arrived in Ghana.
For 14 years, Joseph William Billy Johnson waited for the gospel to officially come to Ghana.
The primitive Christian church practiced baptism for the dead
Most Christians today reject baptism for the dead. But history shows… some early Christians practiced it.
