darth_ender said:

With both baptisms and the atonement, though an act of salvation may have been performed for someone else, the person must still accept what has been done (in other words, for you Frink, even a baptism of a Holocaust victim does not guarantee in our minds that that person will accept the baptism).

I don't understand this.

What you have said implies that the dead person has the capability of accepting the salvation. If this is true, why would the dead person need someone living to provide salvation? Wouldn't God (or Jesus, not sure which applies here) offer the salvation to the dead if they were worthy?

Isn't this then more about the living than the dead?