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Is there any evidence baptism for the dead is an authentic ancient Christian practice?

Baptisms for the dead

Is baptism for the dead an authentic Christian practice?

Summary: Is there any evidence baptism for the dead is an authentic ancient Christian practice?

Refusing baptisms for the dead

Summary: I don't want proxy baptisms or other LDS temple work performed for my deceased family. What can I do to "undo" such baptisms and temple work?

Is performing temple ordinances a form of "ancestor worship"?

Summary: Jerald and Sandra Tanner claim that Church members' "obsession with the dead approaches very close to ancestral worship." In support of this, they quote Elder Adney Y. Komatsu, Assistant to the Council of the Twelve, Ensign May 1976, p.102.

Temple work for Holocaust victims

Summary: In 1995, after it was learned that a substantial number of Holocaust victims were listed in the Church's temple records as having been baptized, an agreement was signed between the Church and leading Jewish authorities which officially ended baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims posthumously.