If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead?
If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
1Corinthians 15:29
what does this mean? Baptized for the dead?
I would offer the dead are those born dead in their trespasses and sin without hope or God in this world.(un-redeemed mankind. )
The atheist Jews that followed a law of the fathers a hierarchy of men that lord it over the belief of the non-venerable pew sitters. made Moses and the prophets;(sola scriptura ) the teaching authority without effect by thier oral traditions .
Isaiah 8 speaks of them who have no light of the gospel working in them. They seek the dead for those still alive called by some today that call the l "patron saints" as disembodied workers with familiar spirits .(3500 and rising) The bible calls it an abomination of desolation making the word of God (Moses and the prophets) without effect.
The word
Darash which defines two kinds of seeking in the
first case represents
those who seek after the dead the
second case vthose who seek our one heavenly father .The correct meaning to the word Darash (necromancy) must be made in order to rightly divide..
Isaiah 8 :19 And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto
wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their
God? for the
living to the
dead? To the
law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this
word, it is because there is
no light in
them.
In that way no man can serve two teaching masters.(1) A legion of Kings princes and fathers as oral trasdtions and (2) our one Holy Father in heaven as
it is written in the law and prophets (sola scriptura).
The parable (no man can serve two teaching masters as Lord.) in Luke 16 expands the teaching.
Luke 16: 13-27
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them,
Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. The
law and
the prophets were until John:
since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.There was a certain
rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have
Moses and the
prophets; (sola scriptura) let them hear
them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they
hear not
Moses and the
prophets,(the gospel) neither will they be persuaded, though
one rose from the dead.
Faith comes by hearing its understanding works in the believer to both desire to will and empower those given a desire. Freely we received freely we give.