Is that ritual a remnant of the days when Christians didn't believe in glorified bodies?
2007-01-04 06:47:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Due to the lack of responses on my last question I got the feeling that adorn was too big a word for some people.
2007-01-04 06:48:54 · update #1
Sho-nuff Sho-nuff bo bo nuff. Banana fana fo fonuff. Fe fi fo fonuff. SHO NUFF!
Just had to do that.
2007-01-04 07:00:22 · answer #1 · answered by yagman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is merely for easier transition. Jumping straight from the rags you have been wearing because you give all your money to the church like a good Christian into a new glorified body is simply too much for some people to handle. So they take it in steps by starting with a suit on their former body.
Baby steps, Sho.
2007-01-04 14:59:01 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians are raised as spirit beings after death. Glorified bodies are given during the resurrection.
I suppose a spirit costume of sorts could be fashoned for the deceased, if so inclined.
2007-01-04 14:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The out of control money-grubbing of the funeral industry. 2-8 thousand dollars for a box that is seen briefly and never again? A fancy costume for th... HAH "All dressed up, and no place to go.", has new meaning for me. Its a pageant of useless flash.
"Look how much money we have to throw at a corpse."
And the flower money...
Burn me put me in a jar, and give the 10 grand to a freakin' charity.
2007-01-04 15:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by vaughndhume 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know when or where this custom came about, but as a Christian I say cremate me. There's no sense lying around in a coffin in my best dress rotting away. It's really gross if you think of it AND a waste of perfectly good real estate for the cemetaries.
2007-01-04 14:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because everyone doesn't really want to be looking at Grandma's "goodies" (I believe that is the technical term) while she's laying in state.
Although it would make funerals more interesting. Imagine the attendance when Halle Berry passes away!
2007-01-04 14:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by cornbread 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I don;t understand christians.
If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then the christians would make awesome maze designers.
2007-01-04 14:50:00 · answer #7 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe just out of respect, to have closure for our loss of that person as we knew them?
I dont know, I dont think I want a bunch of people looking at my old wrinkly body after I pass. I dont think they want to see that either.
2007-01-04 14:50:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dress in suits because of llamas. thats it the answer is always llamas.
2007-01-04 14:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by Lucas M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they probably won't fit in their swim suits anymore
2007-01-04 14:52:18 · answer #10 · answered by besthusbandever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋