Featured What Do Matthew 8:22 and Luke 9:60 Teach about Burial?

Greetings,

You stated this: "The irony is our embalming, caskets and vaults are designed to prevent as much as possible man returning to dust. Cremation, however, takes care of that issue rather quickly."

That statement has nothing to do with "Hebrew method of burial".
That is what is "worthless".......

Again typically you twist the whole conversation away from the scriptural basis that cremation is never mentioned as a process for the Jewish people and for present day believer's. You have no Biblical support for your "processed" thinking that cremation is acceptable, and that is called evasion.

Until you do so, then there is no further conversation to be had.

Simple....
The Lord bless you....
In His Love....

 

Greetings,

Your rating " Prayers x 1"
Is a fake response, why you may ask? The Lord only will grant answers to prayer to those who approach Him with clean hands and pure heart. This response is just a show, nothing more.

Job 17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

The Lord bless you....
In His Love....

 

Greetings,
"Scripture is important."

You make a mockery of discussing Scriptures, because you never use Scriptures to support Cremation, so everything you have stated against me is exactly what YOU are doing.
This discussion from my side is over, I do not deal with dishonesty........

In His Love.....

 

I was just doing a little more study regarding Amos 2:1-3, where God brought judgment on Moab for burning the bones of the king of Edom. This is a point where understanding the culture is important. Such burning indicated special contempt, and was thought to deprive the dead of peace in the afterlife. In 2 Kings 23:15-16, King Josiah burned the bones of false priests on the altar at Bethel. In our culture, cremation is not done out of contempt, but simply as an alternative to burial.

Compare 1 Corinthians 14:33-35, where Paul writes that women should remain silent in churches. This was very specific to that culture, and not a rule that is "carved in stone". Unless you believe that women should literally be silent from the moment they step into the church until they leave.

There has been some discussion of "systematic Bible study" on this thread. While I've heard the term, I'm not very familiar with what it looks like. However, if this study of placing so much emphasis on what to do with our bodies after we die is an example of how we are to "systematically" study the Bible, count me out. Personally, I prefer the "inductive" study method, where we ask questions to understand the Scripture. Who is talking? What did he mean? How did the original audience understand it? How does it point to Christ? What impact does this have on my life?

Regarding the last question, I don't believe decisions about burial vs cremation make any difference whatsoever. I've never seen God express His anger on anyone for cremating their loved ones. No curses, no unusual financial problems, no unusual health issues, nothing. Certainly this doesn't affect one's salvation, since we are saved by grace through faith. This seems legalistic and pointless.

 

Hermeneutics:

1. the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.
   
   
   Systematic Theology:
   
   The attempt to organize all Christian doctrine in a logical order.
   
   Systematic Theology is looking at Christian doctrines from an overview position. Hermeneutics is the attempt to interpret scripture on the micro level. It is you who does not know what they are talking about and is ripping a word out of its context and then working to place it in another context divorced from the passage you are misusing. That does violence to scripture.
   
   But, even using your errant method of hermeneutics you have backed yourself into a corner you cannot get out of. The passages you quote say "let the dead bury the dead". So here are some questions you are forced to deal with using your faulty hermeneutics:
   
   1. Who are the dead that are the only ones allowed to bury the dead? Don't forget Jesus said only dead people are allowed to bury dead people. So you have to stick with what it says?
   2. How come only dead people are allowed to bury dead people? Since we are not allowed to use context to properly interpret, according to your personal rules, how are you going to be able to answer this question?
   
   I patiently wait your well thought out and properly exegeted answer.