I was curious, why mormons are so into Genealogy ? Is it important toward obta

Question:

I was curious, why mormons are so into Genealogy ? Is it important toward obtaining salvation, or what......

What reason is behind having to deeply research ones genealogy in the morman church ?

No negativsim or judgements intended. Honestly.

I was just curious why this important for a mormon to do this ?

I ask that only practicing mormons answer this please. Thank You.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: LDS spend millions of dollars and man-hours to research the names of dead people in order to do their proxy Mormon baptisms and Celestial/Plural marriages. However, the Bible has no such teaching.

1 Timothy 1:4 - Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies
Titus 3:9 - Avoid foolish questions and genealogies

The Mormons continue on with their contact with the dead because it is a spiritualist/occultic Anti-Christian religion.

The view that deceased human beings can hear and receive the gospel of Jesus Christ in the spirit world, and through proxy baptism performed for them on earth, attain eternal life in the presence of God, is one of the distinctive doctrines of Mormonism that separates it from historic, Biblical Christianity.

The Mormon doctrine of salvation for the dead is incompatible with the general Biblical teaching that our eternal destiny is fixed at death.

Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel (1 Corinthians 1:16). This statement surely implies that baptism does not have equal importance with faith in Christ.

The New Testament certainly teaches that baptism is an important step of obedience for Christians, but it does not teach its absolute necessity for forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

The Book of Mormon is completely silent about baptism for the dead. According to the Book or Mormon, those who die in ignorance of gospel do not need baptism, and further, since it is a covenant for mortality, it could have no relevance to those in the spirit world.