One of my clients who is Baptist insists that it is wrong...says our bodies are supposed to rise up to meet our souls or something like that...I pointed out that for most of us our bodies would be rotted away by then but according to her that doesn't matter.
2006-09-27 10:21:47 · 6 answers · asked by Dellajoy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't. You are correct in the fact that the bodies disintegrate and turn to dust. The idea that you can't be resurrected if cremated goes back a long ways. That is why they burnt witches and Christians at the stake so that God couldn't resurrect them. Wycliffe, the first person to translate the Bible into English, died a natural death and was buried but the king hated him so much for what he did that years after his death he ordered Wycliffes bones dug up and burnt so that God wouldn't resurrect him. This is all nonsense, the Bible says that on Resurrection day all that have dies will rise. Baptists don't truly believe in the Resurrection day because they think that upon death people go to heaven or hell but the Bible don't teach that. Roman/Greek mythology and the Catholics teach that instant heaven-hell stuff. Over the last 130 years almost all religions changed to that thinking also but true Christianity always taught that the dead lay in the ground rotting, knowing nothing, until God raises them. Jesus said that no man has ascended unto heaven, why does everyone think that people go there instantly.
2006-09-27 10:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by pontiuspilatewsm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say this in the Bible. But some Christians believe that because it does say that the dead will be raised and meet Jesus "at the last day" that their bodies need to be in one place. This is a little inconsistent, though--if God can do anything, then raising people who have been cremated is no problem!
2006-09-27 17:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini108 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't specifically say that it is wrong, but the recorded history shows that the patriarchs and godly lineage, probably out of respect for the human body, did not burn the bodies of their deceased. However, the ungodly lineage did.
2006-09-27 17:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says nothing about being cremated. That is a personal decision of the dead one's surviving relatives.
2006-09-27 20:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never ever heard of that. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, it doesn't matter at all, even if you lay in the woods and get eaten by dogs and buzzards. It isn't the person anymore anyway.
2006-09-30 16:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't think it does. Remind her that we'll all have new bodies...
2006-09-27 17:29:52 · answer #6 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋