You know how sometimes, when you were small, you thought, “Why didn’t we just go to heaven and accept our reward? Why did we need to go through this life, pain, sickness, tragedies, death, and all if an omniscient God could spare us and give us our just reward?” Huh?
Well, I think the reason is because some of us or most of us and even almost all of us would have rebelled and claimed, “Nah, I would have done better than that… I would have repented after making such foolish choices… You gave me a raw deal!”
Well, Moroni chapter 8 tells us that it is solemn mockery before God to baptize little children, as they are alive in Christ and need no baptism… Children are only baptized after they are accountable.
Why, then, I wondered, do we perform baptisms for the dead? I mean, if everyone will be baptized in the end, why do we (Jesus Christ’s disciples) teach His doctrines and principles, like faith, repentance, baptism, and the laying on of hands and bestowal of the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Well… think about it.
Everyone receives their just rewards and needs to know that they have done all the things in order to receive their reward…
JPS
