For LDS, what does it mean that baptism is "essential" for "salvation"?
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There are conditional and unconditional antecedents to the remission of sins by the Savior.
Conditional:
To those who are accountable (revealed to be age 8 in D&C 68:27), repentance is required and once repented baptism is offered (baptism is for a remission of sins, sin requires knowledge of wrongdoing, children can't be held accountable, don't require baptism), and is a sign of the covenant they make with the Lord.
Unconditional:
For all those who are not responsible for their actions (those under 8, some with mental handicaps) the Lord has paid to the demands of justice the full price demanded for the sins that they have committed-unconditionally, fully, completely. The price has been paid, they are free and clean from the results or the effects of any wrong thing that they have done. They are not in a position to make and honor a covenant of obedience, so the covenant is not required of them, and the sign thereof therefore is not necessary. That great atoning sacrifice did not represent a postponement of justice, it satisfied justice!
12 But little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundation of the world; if not so, God is a partial God, and also a changeable God, and a respecter to persons; for how many little children have died without baptism!
13 Wherefore, if little children could not be saved without baptism, these must have gone to an endless hell.
14 Behold I say unto you, that he that supposeth that little children need baptism is in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; for he hath neither faith, hope, nor charity; wherefore, should he be cut off while in the thought, he must go down to hell.
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