I feel like that's the path I want to go down when it's time but I don't know if there are any biblical views against it. Any help is appreciated.
Dead is dead. God made you out of dust, and he can reconstitute you out of dust. Some people have argued that we bury the body in tact because it shows our hope in the resurrection. That is symbolic, however, and not biblically mandated. I find much greater hope in thinking that all of the people lost at sea, crushed to dust in 9/11, blown up in Hiroshima...God knows every one of them, and he will sort it all out.Blanco Jimenez said:
I feel like that's the path I want to go down when it's time but I don't know if there are any biblical views against it. Any help is appreciated.
OK so that's where I've been questioning that, but where does it say that in the Bible?Martin Q. Blank said:
At death your body is united to Jesus and kept alive. Your body is at rest while your soul is in heaven until the resurrection. As a matter of faith, you should want your body to be put to rest and not burned up.
Not that God can't resurrect a body cremated or obliterated at Hiroshima. It's just a matter of what you believe about your body between the time of death and resurrection.
As a matter of faith, I dont believe the resurrection is dependent in any form on the action done to my dead body.Martin Q. Blank said:
At death your body is united to Jesus and kept alive. Your body is at rest while your soul is in heaven until the resurrection. As a matter of faith, you should want your body to be put to rest and not burned up.
Not that God can't resurrect a body cremated or obliterated at Hiroshima. It's just a matter of what you believe about your body between the time of death and resurrection.
Martin Q. Blank said:
At death your body is united to Jesus and kept alive. Your body is at rest while your soul is in heaven until the resurrection. As a matter of faith, you should want your body to be put to rest and not burned up.
Not that God can't resurrect a body cremated or obliterated at Hiroshima. It's just a matter of what you believe about your body between the time of death and resurrection.
I agree. First sentence, second paragraph.Pro Sandy said:As a matter of faith, I dont believe the resurrection is dependent in any form on the action done to my dead body.Martin Q. Blank said:
At death your body is united to Jesus and kept alive. Your body is at rest while your soul is in heaven until the resurrection. As a matter of faith, you should want your body to be put to rest and not burned up.
Not that God can't resurrect a body cremated or obliterated at Hiroshima. It's just a matter of what you believe about your body between the time of death and resurrection.
Martin Q. Blank said:
1 Thes. 4:14, Dan. 12:2
I didn't say they proved a burial method, only that the body is not dead, but alive and asleep in Christ. It's my opinion that you should treat it as such.Frok said:Those verses are not describing or hinting at any kind of burial method. They are simply stating that those "who have fallen asleep" aka have died but are believers, will be raised up.Martin Q. Blank said:
1 Thes. 4:14, Dan. 12:2
Same argument for politics, art, and restaurants.Silky Johnston said:
What's the point of religion if no one can ever agree on anything?
Silky Johnston said:
What's the point of religion if no one can ever agree on anything?