Christian : we believe in second resurection. How about people that had been cremated?

Answer 1

I love teaching about this in my theology classes. It makes for great discussion. For the most part the students whom I teach do believe in a literal physical resurrection of the body in the future associated with 1 Thess 4:16. I then pose the following scenario for their consideration.

A sailor dies, so his body is dumped overboard into the sea. After a few hours of decomposing, a fish eats part of the body. Hours later the fish is caught, cleaned, and eaten by another sailor on the same ship. Proteins from the first man's body become proteins of the fish's body, and eventually become proteins of the second man's body. What if this process repeats itself dozens of times?

Besides the human retina, every part of the human body has proteins that decompose and become part of another living thing. If some of these proteins are shared by several people throughout the course of history, then to which body will they belong in the future resurrection?

I don't mean to lead my students to the conclusion that the future resurrection is not real. I do mean to equip them to answer questions about cremation though. Some people are afraid to have their bodies cremated because they fear that they would not be able to be physically resurrected. Bodies buried in a coffin may take longer to decompose and become part of the surrounding soil, but their proteins do eventually become a part of the soil that becomes part of local plants, that becomes part of animals or humans, and the process continues.

In the future resurrection God will accomplish what He wants to how He wants to. We don't need to worry about what happens to the proteins of our body at the time of death or any previous time. People lose proteins by pooping and gain them by eating every day. God knows exactly how people will be resurrected at that wonderful time in the future, but remember that these bodies will be glorified and eternal. We have perishable bodies now, but we will have imperishable bodies then. God will resurrect us, but we will be different in many senses. We will possess visible, and some kind of physical, bodies, but we need not worry about how our present bodies are disposed of.

Answer 2

Cremation isn't Christian burial. Actually, it's an indication of eternal damnation. If you have a Strongs' Concordance, look up in the old testament a passage having to do with a King whose bones were burned to lime. Note the context, intent, and tone.

Answer 3

initially some religions are pretend faith and do not truly position self assurance in Jesus Christ. no longer each and every of the lifeless yet those lifeless did upward push from the grave and went into city as a witness to the capacity of the christ and that he truly became the son of God. the temple curtain ripped into and many human beings grew to change into believers. So it became an indication to all those residing on the instantaneous and some died 100 years later. It would not say they went to heaven on the instantaneous and in reality the bible says in Col a million:18 calls him the first born from the lifeless. He went to heaven earlier all people. Acts a million: first few verses says that Jesus did not flow to heaven for 40 days after he became resurrected. It does teach contained in the merely right days that there'll be a heavenly resurrection. yet that became many years faraway from that element. truly in our time.

Answer 4

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. But if you are asking if God can give these people new bodies the answer is OF COURSE! Do you honestly think that anything is beyond Him?

What about all those people in the terror attacks? God sent His Son that ALL may have eternal life. Not just those that are buried. The Bilbe says ALL

Answer 5

God made man from the earth and woman from a rib from man. When man dies his remains eventually return to earth. Cremation just speeds up the process.

I'm going to let God take care of the how in the afterlife. I have enough things to worry about in the here and now. (bills, vacation, laundry.....)

Answer 6

People who are buried are eaten by worms. People who are cremated are eaten by fire. It's just the house your spirit lives in for now. When you die, if you followed the path to God, then your spirit sleeps until the judgment day. If you didn't follow the path to God, then your spirit is not at rest and can be easily summoned by those who practice bad magic or it simply wonders until the judgment day.

Answer 7

What are the "ashes" from a cremation oven? Bones because they can't burn. What does a buried cadaver turn into? Bones.
If there is a God, I'm sure He can resurrect either type of bone.

Answer 8

I don't get the idea of bodily resurrection. If you have a soul, isn't that what is supposed to rise to heaven? (not that I believe that either). If heavenly existence is supposed to be something greater than mortal earthy existence why would you expect to have the same things you had on earth, like a body?

Answer 9

NO PROBLEM:
Ec 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ec 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Answer 10

If embalming fluid and rotting into nothing is no problem for the Resurrection then I dont see how cremation can pose a problem