I have a friend who believes that your soul will go to hell if you're cremated and not buried. Do you believe this to be true?
2007-11-09 13:58:45 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
While I don't particularly believe in heaven OR hell, myself, I will not answer your question in any less of a form because of my own beliefs. I believe that there is a certain peace in being cremated, your ashes becoming one with the planet, for it to use as it sees fit. I see a certain moral understandard for being burried, a slight brutality, or that could just be my mortal fear of zombies...who knows?! To be honest, I would prefer to be cremated myself and I do not believe you would go to hell for it. To be fecicious actually, why would the devil want a bunch of ashes anyway? Don't you think he'd want a complete body? :) Just some things for you to think about!
2007-11-09 14:04:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't believe that to be true. If your friend, who seems very religious, looked at it in a certain way, she might see that the option of being cremated is a choice that God gave people. Being buried just makes a persons body eventually rot. Even with enough time, the bones could possibly disintegrate which is basically like cremation (in a way).
2007-11-09 14:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by Honk Zzzzzz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No I Can't Believe That. My Dad Was Murdered By His Wife & To Disguise The Evidence She Had Him Cremated. He Already Had His Whole Funeral Planned Because He Had Cancer. She Got Tired Of Taking Care Of Him So She Gave Him An Overdose Of Morphine. He Was Cremated & I Do Not Think Hes In Hell. I Can't!
2007-11-09 14:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by [♥]Rae Rae[♥] 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, cremation has nothing to do with your soul. Once you die, your soul will leave you to go to the designation you have have chose for it to go while you were living. In other words, if you were a sinner, your soul goes to hell, a christian, then your soul goes to heaven. It doesn't matter what happens to your body. If you are a christian, you will rise anyway when the end comes.
2007-11-09 14:31:11 · answer #4 · answered by lisalou 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If one goes to hell because of cremation, then what about those poor victims of fire that burned completely to death? Would they have gone to hell, too? I don't think cremation as it is is a major reason to go to hell. I would be glad to know if a religion or sect believes this way.
2007-11-09 14:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by eugaul2006 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. That makes no difference.
The only way to go to hell is if a person rejects to their dying breath the belief that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again. Not believing that and dying without believing it, is a sure way to hell, no matter whether the person is cremated or buried or whatever.
Do you believe the above about Jesus? Are you saved from hell?
2007-11-09 14:01:22 · answer #6 · answered by Kurt 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No.
If that were true, anyone lost at sea, or who died in an explosion or whose remains were not in one piece could not get to heaven.
So, I don't think that God would ever punish someone with eternal damnation just because they were not officially buried. In the Bible, Jesus blasted the Pharisees because they followed the rules precisely but forgot the intent of the rules. For that reason, I don't think that God will punish someone because they were not buried. Because no one truly controls whether they will be buried, cremated,etc.
2007-11-09 14:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by Searcher 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no scripture anywhere in the bible that says that. In fact, if you believed on Jesus for eternal life you wont go to hell no matter what you do. Eternal life is just that eternal, you cant lose it after ten fifteen or fifty years. salvation is a free gift, treasure in heaven is a reward for deeds done, or lack thereof. Cremation or burial has nothing to do with either
2007-11-09 14:03:55 · answer #8 · answered by Crystal K 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do not personally believe that. I think the notion comes from a belief of the bodily resurrection of the believers. Therefore, if the body was destroyed it cannot resurrect and join up of the Savior. I think this interpretation is would also assume that members of certain violent deaths like plane crashes...ect... would be lost. That doesn't really make sense if you believe God to be loving. How about many of the 911 victims?
2007-11-09 14:06:23 · answer #9 · answered by Boilerfan 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. As soon as your body dies, your souls leaves you and goes where it is going to go. How your body is disposed of or buried or cremated does not determine that you will go to heaven or hell.
You will get to heaven by simply believing that we are sinners and that Jesus died for us. We ask him into our hearts and ask for forgiveness. We will never perish if you are honest about accepting Jesus into your heart. You will have everlasting life. It is your spirit that leaves your body. What happens to your body has no determination on your afterlife.
2007-11-09 14:03:59 · answer #10 · answered by Stephanie F 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋