What does the church think about cremation?

Question

I heard you wouldn't make it to heaven if you were cremated, and it WAS absolute, until the bubonic plague then the church morphed It's message AGAIN and again and again and again...................................................... What does the GOOD book say exactly?

Answer 1

The Bible speaks only in generalities, "from dust to dust", that sort of thing. The Christian church's belief in physical resurrection biases it toward burial in the ground. But the realities of decomposition, disfigurement and violent injury have softened its opposition to cremation. Now it only discourages it if it is meant as a denouncement of the general resurrection. And they usually prefer that the ashes be buried.

Answer 2

The Good Book says that whatsoever the Church binds upon earth is bound in heaven. The Church says that cremation is allowed, provided it does not pose a personal obstacle to acceptance of resurrection of the body. It was because of this very problem that the Church formerly disallowed cremation.

Answer 3

The Bible in general doesn't speak about this. But if you were to look at the people of the bible. In general they didn't not get cremated.
So I would say that you shouldn't have that done, as the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. But it will not stop your salvation if you have it done. As the body is just a shell, it is a person's soul that is of most concern.

Answer 4

The Bible is silent on the issue. I think the problem some people have with it is the value of the person - and the person was housed in the body. Also, the body is in the image of God.

Also, the Bible does say that we will receive new bodies - and I think maybe some people thought it would be too hard to put the puzzle together if we had to assemble your old body from ashes...................really that thought went through my mind when I heard it was frowned on.

I believe that cremation is not sinful............................I don't want to cremaTed though....................

Answer 5

What about people cremated in an office building or apartment building fire? Besides, who would care what the church thinks. What do you think it knows that you do not know or figure out for yourself? Wake up and smell the coffee.

Answer 6

When the body's dead, its dead. It's the spirit that really matters. The body can be either buried or cremated, whichever the person preferred.

Answer 7

The Bible says:
Genesis 3:19
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

What difference if it takes 150 years or 150 minutes? IHS Jim