Cremation

[Wesley Briggman]

As a born-again believer, what is your view concerning cremation?

 

[Deacon]

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

 

[Scarlett O.]

As a born-again believer, what is your view concerning cremation?

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.

 

[OnlyaSinner]

That would include the (probably few) Christians in downtown Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

 

[JonC]

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.

And.... neither do Christians who died decades ago (even the bones decay in time).

 

[KenH]

I have no problem with it. My sister was cremated after she died in August last year.

 

[Ascetic X]

People say that embalming and burial show more respect for the human body. But cremation is more affordable. God can resurrect a person no matter what happens to their body. Christian martyrs were burned at the stake.