If God is Almighty and can do anything, why is it “bad” to get cremated? I understand that they say you have to stay ~whole~ for when God comes down, but if someone doesn’t want their body riddled with maggots etc, and wants to be cremated, couldn’t God snap his fingers and POOF that person is back?
What if you take someone that was hard core religion 2000 years ago, all that is left of his body are bones. So does that mean God can only recreate tissue? What is the difference of dry bones or dust? Wouldn’t it all provide the same “challenge” to God to reanimate someone regardless of how their body was handled?
And having said that, once you die, is it wrong in God’s eyes to donate your organs? I mean if he wants you whole for his arrival, donating your heart/eyes/liver etc would be bad cause you are separating something from yourself. But in truth wouldn’t that be like one last good deed and be a good thing?
2006-09-28 02:51:58 · 12 answers · asked by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
iSTVAN: Deus suos agnoscet. Kill them all. God will know his own.
Nice Buddy!
2006-09-28 02:58:25 · update #1
I've heard that too, and I don't understand. What about those people who were incinerated on impact on 9/11? Are they doomed? Or is it only if you CHOOSE cremation? If so, how lazy is that! "He" doesn't want to spend the effort for "his" chosen to restore them?
I've heard people object to organ donation for religious reasons as well. I wonder how quickly that objection would get tossed out the window if it was their child who needed the transplant. =(
Glad I don't have to worry about that god, my organ donor designation can stay on my DL =)
2006-09-28 03:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not going to matter what you do. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were burned alive in concentration camps. They had special ovens for doing this. I don't believe they are going to be condemned because they were cremated alive.
Any God as powerful as the Christian God is described should be able to raise or recreate anything he's created before. If he made dirt, and made man out of that dirt, then he should be able to recreate bodies with dirt, I'd say.
It sounds like you are listening to much to Bible thumpers who don't understand the Bible. The Bible is not the ultimate source of Christ teaching, nor is it perfect. Written by men, compiled by men, it is flawed and even downright hateful in places.
Stick to the words in red, those won't let you down. Also, for a better understanding of true Christianity as it was practiced after Christ died, read all the Gnostic gospels as well. Read the Nag Hammadi library, the gospel of Judas, Mary, etc...
2006-09-28 02:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
as far as I am personally concerned there is nothing wrong with the cremation process if this is what one desires. our physical containers are all going to return to the place from whence it came eventually and matters not what happens as it is nothing important since the soul and spirit have left going to a different plane of existence.
personal opinion there are instances when donating ones organs or having medical persons perform autopsies are beneficial to advancing wisdom and knowledge. which is why we are on this plane of existence in the first place.
2006-09-28 03:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says it's bad? The spirit is often drawn back to the body, making problems for the spirit. Voodoo dudes can bring a
spirit back immediately after death using their corpse, and make a slave of the spirit.
I recently learned that we are really supposed to take our physical body with us when we go to heaven. Like Enoch,
Elijah, Jesus, and Muhammad are supposed to have done.
It's called Translating, or changing the molecular structure of the body so it goes along into spirit.
Having studied a variety of spiritual ideas, and if you will
indulge me a moment. Two psychics told me I have lots of
spiritual knowledge. I think we are supposed to take the
material body with us, because it has something to do with NOT
feeding the destructive, (recycling), aspects of Creation.
2006-09-28 02:58:55 · answer #4 · answered by Medicine Eddie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a saying for people like you: Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
2006-09-28 02:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since you feel so strongly about this idea that people should be cremated, we have decided to gladly accomodate you.
Please present yourself to the nearest incinerator.
2006-09-28 02:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You honestly have put this much thought about death? you scare me...
by the way, cremation was used for criminals and people that were evil...
i think u need help really
2006-09-28 03:03:32 · answer #7 · answered by Winters child 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know where you get these ideas. Maybe you are paying to much attention to what a religion, such as Protestant or Catholic, says. Remember those religions were started by man.
BTW you mock God, you will have to answer to him someday. Watch your words.
2006-09-28 02:55:07 · answer #8 · answered by bballguy4212 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
your confused. don't direct all this anger towards something that does not exist, use your passion to do something possitive.
2006-09-28 02:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by Jose Esoj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many "what if's""
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2006-09-28 02:56:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋