What do Mormons believe about life after death?
Mormons believe that all people who ever lived will have the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ. Those that have died go to a spirit world where they associate with others who have lived while they await the resurrection. The believers of Christ preach the gospel in the spirit world too, and those that accept it can be saved by having the ordinances of salvation performed for them by proxy on earth. This is the Mormon practice of baptism for the dead, which is performed in Mormon temples. Mormons also believe there are differing degrees of glory rewarded after the Judgment, according to the faith and obedience of the person during their life (John 14:2; 1 Corinthians 15:40-41). The glories of heaven differ like the glory of the sun differs from the moon, and the moon from the stars. All who accepted the probation of mortality will receive some degree of glory, but only the faithful will receive the highest glory.
