Burial or cremation
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Both are ok. Neither is against Scripture. It comes down to what the person feels most comfortable with.
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For our part, we don't believe that cremation needs to be viewed as a spiritual issue. One could just as easily argue that the custom of burial in ancient Israel was nothing more than a reflection of the Bible's cultural context. It's true, of course, as your husband suggests, that the Resurrection of the Body is one of the most important aspects of salvation in Christ (see 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). Nevertheless, the fact remains that all physical bodies suffer disintegration, whether through decay or through fire (Genesis 3:19). The idea that God cannot resurrect them in the one case as well as in the other doesn't hold water. He does not need our specific ashes and chemical components to bring about resurrection. Why not? Because the resurrected body is a new spiritual creation (1 Corinthians 15:44).
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2K...spective/RK=2/RS=N4Hcot9mL5fKJ1UNx7PawWDM.hs-
Focus on the Family excerpt
For our part, we don't believe that cremation needs to be viewed as a spiritual issue. One could just as easily argue that the custom of burial in ancient Israel was nothing more than a reflection of the Bible's cultural context. It's true, of course, as your husband suggests, that the Resurrection of the Body is one of the most important aspects of salvation in Christ (see 1 Corinthians 15:42-57). Nevertheless, the fact remains that all physical bodies suffer disintegration, whether through decay or through fire (Genesis 3:19). The idea that God cannot resurrect them in the one case as well as in the other doesn't hold water. He does not need our specific ashes and chemical components to bring about resurrection. Why not? Because the resurrected body is a new spiritual creation (1 Corinthians 15:44).
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But isnt flesh subject to decay, while bones arent. In cremation, the cremations machine crushes the bones to powder. Its not just roasting the body. Also, once you are dead, its not your choice its whoevers left behind has to deal with your body. Didnt Joseph of Arithmea beg the body of Jesus? I wonder what would have happened to Jesus body if Joseph did not intervene and provide his family tomb for him.
MAry also anointed Jesus body for burial, Jesus somehow knew they would not burn him or crush his bones.
MAry also anointed Jesus body for burial, Jesus somehow knew they would not burn him or crush his bones.
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Well unless you plan on dying and being resurrected for the sins of the world I don't see how this point has any relevance to the rest of the world.
Isolating one specific instance with a set of special circumstances does not present a favorable argument. It's nothing more than grasping at straws to prove a point you want verified.
Isolating one specific instance with a set of special circumstances does not present a favorable argument. It's nothing more than grasping at straws to prove a point you want verified.
Sure.
King James Bible
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan 12:2)
Sleep is a metaphor for physical death. The corpse gives the appearance of someone in sleep or repose, but for Christians, their souls and spirits are alive and awake in Heaven with Christ. Soul Sleep is false doctrine.
King James Bible
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan 12:2)
Sleep is a metaphor for physical death. The corpse gives the appearance of someone in sleep or repose, but for Christians, their souls and spirits are alive and awake in Heaven with Christ. Soul Sleep is false doctrine.
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