Is it biblically wrong to have someone cremated?
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It is not biblical.
Bury your dead. Follow the Biblical examples. -
There is no scriptural evidence for or against.
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So if a myrtar is burned at the stake they don’t go to heaven?
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There are thousands of Christians who have been burned to death in persecution all around the world. God will find His children despite the effort of satan.
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It doesn’t matter which you choose. From dust you are…
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If God is omniscient, He knew your DNA sequence prior to the act of creation. Resurrected bodies are no challenge to Him.
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What happens to the body is irrelevant after death. Your soul separates from the body.
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Why would it matter the soul goes to Heaven. Only the Jewish want a full burial.
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The body is just a shell
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No, you can cremate, then take the ashers and put it in the ground, to make you feel better, the Lord knows you heart. And who can afford a funnel.
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One can’t be dogmatic about it but the practice for the children of God Biblically, (if you can help it) is burial as a respectful and traditional Christian practice. The pagans cremated theirs but God never instructed His children to burn. None of the prophets were cremated, and many who were buried were honored even in their burial. So why wouldn’t we bury in respectful honor of God’s creation of humanity. Even today, we burn things that are toxic and bad, and forsaken (even symbolically).
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What do you think will happen to all those Christian martyrs who got burned at the stake?
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Cremation is a pagan practice stay away from it. Bury your dead.
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Doesn’t matter AT ALL! Either way I’ll get a new body!!!
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Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. You can still bury a vase of ashes.
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To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Our bodies at best are a temporary shell.?????
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Dead don’t care. Christ knows where the ashes are.
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No, unless you are doing it for evil reasons. The body is nothing of value after we have stopped using it, but if you think you’re going to spend eternity where your ashes are dumped, then it’s wrong!
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I am heavyweight and I don’t want any one to hurt themselves carrying my casket to the grave. I have asked to be cremated when I am gone. I am also an organ donor. Doing all I can to lighten the load.
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Not unless they’re still alive
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It’s a testimony regarding your belief in a resurrection.
Like a seed being planted in the ground, waiting for new life. That’s all.
If someone’s body is burned to ashes, God will have no problem building a new body because it is the software that counts.
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No. The Bible does not give any instructions on how to properly dispose of the dead, therefore we are free to figure that out ourselves.
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Saying that cremated bodies won’t resurrect is limiting the power of God. Therefore, many will despise cremation due to the fact that, they think the body cannot resurrect after being burnt.
If scriptures are not against it, then it cannot be wrong.
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if theyre still alive ( sorry-couldnt resist )
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Yes. Except when disease is an issue
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What about Christians burned in fires? Is God not powerful enough to resurrect their souls? As far as I can tell, we won’t even have the same body.
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GOD doesn’t need a body to hold a soul. That’s how I’ve always looked at it. Bodies are earthly. It may sound insensitive but it doesn’t matter what happens to the body because your no longer attached to it.
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Either you think God is powerful enough to raise you from ashes, or you don’t. Simple.
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Not wrong at all. Consider this the only burial to be concerned with
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. -
Cremation is a Hindu thing
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Its not an issue to me to creamate…the Bible is silent on creamation
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As long as they are dead first. No more burning at the stake please
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God has Good computers and he can keep up with where your molecules are.
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First, Jesus was buried according to Jewish custom and Israelite heritage.
Second, cremation had become prominent among Romans when Christ came into the world. The Jews upheld inhumation and respected one’s bones. Search instances of destining bones as a sin in the Scriptures. However, Revelation says those lost at sea will be resurrected.
Third, cremation is not condemning, but it’s not the message that I want to leave with my family. I believe in the resurrection and my burial should show it.
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Not wrong at all. A dead body either turns into dust slowly or quickly. No one’s in it either way.
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God is the number 1 cremator.
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Call me completely ignorant, but before reading the comments on this post, I had never considered literal resurrection of my bodily remains. Is this the prominent belief in Christianity?
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It does not matter as it came from dust and returns to dust. But what matters is the matter of soul and at resurrection the molecules will be gathered to form a risen spiritual body which God can alone do .
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The burial of the body is a practice done out of respect of the work and residence of the Creator, who will physically raise us up from the dead at the end of the age. Christians recognize that we wouldn’t be us without our bodies and at the last God will reunite body and soul, flesh and spirit.
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On the question of the resurrection of the flesh in the recreation of the new heaven and the new earth*, nothing is impossible for God.
It doesn’t matter the state of the dead body, even if it was completely degraded. There aren’t physical barriers for God.
Footnotes:
* That was the reason why there’s a tradition (not doctrine) of burying dead bodies, and not giving them another type of funeral. In this way, God “could” rise that body in its entirety during the recreation, and not so if the body were degraded, as in ashes.
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Only when a person is still alive.
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Sounds like a few of you claim that a God that can create man from dust can’t do it again..
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Yes
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I want a Viking funeral…and I’m a Christian ?
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I could be put in a trash bag for all I care? I just care about where my soul is going
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It’s ok to cremate, no problem
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Dust to dust… some dust takes a few centuries, some dust takes a few hours in the furnace… No big deal… It’s just dust, given to the fire or the worms, God is not moved. The problem comes in when you find people keeping the ash at home and burning incense for the departed..
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From dust we come and to dust we shall return. God knows every component of our bodies. Every nook and cranny and every strand of our DNA. Our bodies decompose come apart and eventually turn to dust after we die, so it makes no difference whether we are buried or cremated or burned and reduced to ashes chopped up or whatever, when we die God will reconstruct and put back together our decomposed and broken up remains or ashes or whatever’s left of our bodies when we’re dead on the day of our resurrection on Christ’s second coming!
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