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Dead works are those unauthorized religious acts which men do in the false hope of gaining salvation through their performance. They are works without life, works which never gain the ratifying seal of approval from the Spirit and which do not lead to eternal life. They are not of God. All apostate ordinances and performances are of this sort. After the law given to Moses was fulfilled in Christ, every ordinance or ritual imitative of what legal administrators had done in righteousness when the law was in force became a dead work. Ordinances—such as baptism (though it may imitate the true mode, immersion)—are dead works when performed by sectarian churches. (D&C 22). Believing in and relying on infant baptism is “putting trust in dead works.” (Moro. 8:23). The religious performances of those outside the true Church of Christ are dead works, from which they are commanded to repent. (Heb. 6:1; 9:14).Share
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