“Not really sure what you mean. Me and everyone I knew absolutely believed we were offering salvation for each person we were doing this for. If you didn’t, then you weren’t a good mormon”

It’s not surprising to me or anything, because this is a huge problem in the church that they don’t teach the doctrine, they just want the numbers, the tithing, the cultural power, they don’t care about the teachings.

No you weren’t ever supposed to be changing the historical facts of anyone’s life

There is no belief in the doctorine that work for the dead REWRITES their historical life, or the facts of their life.

Nowhere.

The belief is that the soul of the dead person, in spirit prison/spirit paradise can chose to accept the gospel, and the work done for them. If you do your ancestor’s work and they died in Spain in the 1400s, no matter what work you do for then, in their life they were never Mormon. History books do not need to be updated that their life is now as a Member of the church. No one should believe that. That’s not a part of any teaching in the church at all.

Only their soul in death can accept the work. No history books to change. No facts to update.

“There’s no “supposed to be related” they just encourage it to make you feel more personally attached to the work.”

I’m sorry you grew up in Utah or Idaho, I have no idea what the church does there, but from everyone I’ve met that grew up out there, you all are so devoid of the actual doctorine of the church it’s clear no one out there bothers with it in the first place.

Temple work has always been to redem YOUR dead. This has never changed. You were always supposed to be doing your own ancestors work. That’s why if you go through the old temple records you’ll see generation after generation do the same ancestors in the same order over and over. Now the work isn’t supposed to be done over and over on the same names, but it has always been restricted to your own ancestors. No one is supposed to be submitting names of random people, it’s why when the church digitized all this and put it all online you can’t submit names without some proof it’s your ancestor. You can still work names with open submissions, but only direct ancestors has been the policy on paper since the beginning.

This is how you have a whole religion that is willing to think it’s OK to hate LGBTQ people, actively try and harm them with legislation and policy, and say they accept Jesus’ teachings that you must ‘‘love one another’’ you never bother with the doctorine in the first place.