Buried or burned?
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*makes sounds of unsureness* I feel like the option of burning the body and spreading/keeping the ashes is more focusing as if the person was still there. I think it's more for people that think there may not be anything after, and just want to have their burial be more symbolic. I would prefer to be buried and have a headstone as a memorial, not like not having a jar of human charred remains in a bottle. I understand that there may be financial issues where they can't do a casket, but if I ever have to be cremated please don't have what used to be me in your living room.
I have seen way too many sitcoms where a kid knocks over the ashes and is like "I SPILLED GRAMMA AJSHGAJSGDAJSG"
I have seen way too many sitcoms where a kid knocks over the ashes and is like "I SPILLED GRAMMA AJSHGAJSGDAJSG"
Scientific principal applies here. Matter cannot be destroyed. Whether you rot in the dirt or your ashes sit in a can is irrelevant. Your atoms still exist, just in different compounds. The resurrection is going to occur on a subatomic level (a subject for another thread), so even if your ashes are spread across the globe you will be resurrected intact.
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My mother, my brother, my mother in law all chose to be cremated. My daughter lay to rest beside her husband who died in active duty.
We don't have any of the urns on display in our home, they are tucked away in our spare room. My wife and I plan to start a family plot which will include her and I when the Lord calls. All of us in one area with markers it's really quite simple but nice.
I think the ashes reference you seek is found in the book of job.
We don't have any of the urns on display in our home, they are tucked away in our spare room. My wife and I plan to start a family plot which will include her and I when the Lord calls. All of us in one area with markers it's really quite simple but nice.
I think the ashes reference you seek is found in the book of job.
The issue of burial is deeply rooted in the belief that their old body of flesh will be resurrected would naturally resist cremation, and as scriptures represent, the practice of burial was the predominate practice, at least among the Jewish by the references to the tombs. However, the issue of the resurrection was apparently debated before the time of Jesus or it at least appears as such considering the passage in Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Since the OT contains passage regarding the resurrection of the dead it would be difficult to argue that the Pharisees hadn't aready had a belief in the resurrection before the period of Jesus in the NT.
Personally, I consider that once a person dies, they awaken in a new body on the new earth, so how better to dispose of the corpse than to cremate.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.Matt 8:22
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1 Cor 13:3
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Rev 21:5
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Since the OT contains passage regarding the resurrection of the dead it would be difficult to argue that the Pharisees hadn't aready had a belief in the resurrection before the period of Jesus in the NT.
Personally, I consider that once a person dies, they awaken in a new body on the new earth, so how better to dispose of the corpse than to cremate.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.Matt 8:22
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1 Cor 13:3
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Rev 21:5
No kidding! Even if we don't eat the birds, the birds fertilize the
food crops we eat... Everything gets recycled in God's economy.
As to the ashes, I just read about this recently, in Malachi 4:3
"Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the
soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty.
food crops we eat... Everything gets recycled in God's economy.
As to the ashes, I just read about this recently, in Malachi 4:3
"Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the
soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty.
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Can I have a third option please, I want to be taken up in the fluffy white
clouds. Lol
2 Kings 2:11 NKJV
[11] Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a
chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
clouds. Lol
2 Kings 2:11 NKJV
[11] Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a
chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
I'm not sure I understand the question... how can two share matter? That eaten by worms - birds - then other humans thing? That's an interesting (if disgusting) thought...