Hi all
I would like some output on how you feel, as a Christian, about cremation. I lost my daughter 2 months ago to covid. I never discussed with my kids how they wanted their body disposed because, like all parents, you don't think your kid would die before you do. She lived to be 32 years and passed 4 day before her 33rd birthday.
Here boyfriend of 13 years, who they have two beautiful children together ages 2 & 5 years old, said they had discussed it and they both want to be cremated.
I can't find anything in the bible againt cremation. Just wanted to get some feedback from other Christians
Thank you
Agreed - nothing in the Bible against cremation and in fact many Christians were burned during the time of Roman oppression - "
the body returns to dust" Eccl 12:7
Gen 3:19 "You shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And
to dust you shall return.”
Burning is merely oxidation which removes oxygen from the molecules in the body - it also releases Hydrogen in gas form - leaving behind "dust"
God does not put name-tags on various carbon atoms saying one is you or one is me. In fact we shed the carbon atoms of our skin such that we replace those cells entirely ever 7-10 years.
Does your body really replace itself every seven years?.
"What Frisen found is that the body's cells largely replace themselves every
7 to 10 years. In other words, old cells mostly die and are replaced by new ones during this time span"
And no one goes chasing after all those carbon atoms lost over the coarse of a lifetime. Nor does God.
1 Cor 15
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?” 36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; 37 and
that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. 39
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of mankind, another flesh of animals, another flesh of birds, and another of fish. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable
body, it is raised an imperishable
body; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual
body. 45 So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” The last Adam
was a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48 As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly one, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
