As a born-again believer, what is your view concerning cremation?
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Cremation
- Thread starter Wesley Briggman
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Genesis 2:7 (ESV) ... the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground...
Genesis 3:19 (ESV) ... till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 18:27b (ESV) ...I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 10:9 (ESV) ...you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
Job 30:19b (ESV) ...I have become like dust and ashes.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (ESV) and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Rob
Genesis 3:19 (ESV) ... till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 18:27b (ESV) ...I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 10:9 (ESV) ...you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
Job 30:19b (ESV) ...I have become like dust and ashes.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (ESV) and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Economical
Ecological
Ethical
Enlightened
Rob
I know people who believe that it sends you to hell because you have no physical body to resurrect.
But neither do the Christians who were eaten by lions in Rome or Christians whose bodies disintegrated in the Twin Towers at 9-11 or the untold Christians whose bodies have long since rotted away from being killed in wartime and never got a burial.
IF cremation sends a Christian to hell, then the Bible would have told us to preserve dead bodies with a variety of ways. It doesn't.
God can resurrect ANY deceased Christian who remains are in ANY condition.
That would include the (probably few) Christians in downtown Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
And.... neither do Christians who died decades ago (even the bones decay in time).
I appreciate all views posted. My wife and I have made arrangements to be buried. Christ set the example.
The issues I have with cremation begin and end with the cremator:
Discovery of 189 decaying bodies in Colorado funeral home suggests families received fake ashes
"Discovery of 189 decaying bodies in Colorado funeral home suggests families received fake ashes"
You have NO way of knowing who/what is in the urn!
The issues I have with cremation begin and end with the cremator:
Discovery of 189 decaying bodies in Colorado funeral home suggests families received fake ashes
"Discovery of 189 decaying bodies in Colorado funeral home suggests families received fake ashes"
You have NO way of knowing who/what is in the urn!
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Ascetic X
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But it doesn’t really matter, does it? The dead body is just a shell. The person has departed and is now with Christ. The ashes are relatively insignificant. We scatter the ashes or bury them somewhere, but what actually matters is where the soul has flown off to.