I don't know how to put this other than -
Burial or Cremation ,which is best for resurrection,does the body have to be intact ?
DanM.
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I don't know how to put this other than -
Burial or Cremation ,which is best for resurrection,does the body have to be intact ?
DanM.
Unprofitable Servant
Either.
The body does not have to be intact. If so, what about all the martyrs who were burned at the stake, or died so many years ago that their bones have turned to dust? Or the Christians who were fed to the lions?
We will be raised in a new body:
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Corinthians 15:51-53)
If the Book be not infallible, where shall we find infallibility? ... Are these correctors of Scriptures infallible? Is it certain that our Bibles are not right, but that the critics must be so? ... We shall gradually be so bedoubted and be criticized that only a few of the most profound will know what is Bible and what is not, and they will dictate to the rest of us. I have no more faith in their mercy than in their accuracy... and we are fully assured that our old English version of the Scriptures is sufficient for plain men for all purposes of life, salvation, and goodness. - C.H.Spurgeon
Choosing to praise Him
God being God......He can do anything. Whatever state our bodies are in God can make them brand new.
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him.Psalm 62:5
'Adonai Yeshua'
Neither, just toss me out into the sea, it's cheaper.
So, if I choose to be cremated, I could still enter God's kingdom? I have heard true Christians only do traditional burial, but I have wanted to be cremated.
"We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. If you can demand service from others, you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me-first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept.” Rick Warren
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Get on my horse.
Considering how many people have been blown up or incinerated in the wars just in the last century where no body is recoverable it would be a bit strange to think that any Christians who met such a fate could not enter the kingdom of God.Originally Posted by WonderWoman4Jesus
I too, plan on cremation. I might be mistaken, but I don't think cremation temperatures even get hot enough to destroy human bones. I think the ash is just typically the soft bits (and maybe not even all of it).
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
Running to Die
The ash is bone matter, I believe.
Jeremy, a bondservant of the Lord.
Today is a good day to die for Christ.
soli Deo gloria
If God can form man in His image from dust, I am not concerned about my corpse.
Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Get on my horse.
You are right, I am wrong (just looked it up
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
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I second that, besides we could feed a shark or two.Neither, just toss me out into the sea, it's cheaper.
Grand Master
I always tell my family to put me out with the trash on Wednesday
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The next question would have to be, what is traditional burial? In my part of the country (USA), it is the basic embalming and burial in a casket. We have the land, and it's not too wet and such. There are places in the country where below-ground burial is difficult for various reasons, so the bodies are put in mausoleums, either whole or cremated first. In other countries, tradition is that a body is stored in a family grave until enough time has passed so that only the bones are left, and those are then moved to another place.
I don't see how what happens to our bodies after we have died in Christ can have any effect on our salvation. We will already be with the Lord, and I can't see Him suddenly saying, "Ooops....your family just cremated your body. You have to go to hell now."
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If the state laws allowed it, my dad would choose a pine box in the back yard.I always tell my family to put me out with the trash on Wednesday
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That answers it for me .
Thanks very much Andrew.
God bless.
DanM.
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Good point, thanks.
I understand they have a special machine to crush down the bones.
DanM.
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