The idea is further affirmed in the Puritan Anglican Westminster
Confession of Faith of 1647 that "the visible Church . . . is
the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of
God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of
salvation." Despite this, it is not necessarily a commonly held
belief within modern Protestantism, especially Evangelicalism
and those denominations which believe in the autonomy of the
local church. The dogma is related to the universal Protestant
dogma that the church is the body of all believers and debates
within Protestantism usually centre on the meaning of "church"
(ecclesiam) and "apart" (extra). Since Latter-day Saints believe
that all must receive the proper ordinances in order to enter
into the Kingdom of Heaven, today members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints participate in a massive
genealogical effort to compile names of their kindred dead, and
then to perform sacred ordinances, such as baptism, in behalf
and as proxies for their deceased