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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Here is a treatment of a passage for you to consider:
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Cremation most certainly is a problem for those who accept that the Bible is God's perfect Word that He has given to them to guide them for every good work. Not a single passage in Scripture supports cremation. Cremation is the exaltation of creaturely wisdom above divine revelation. It is an...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Cremation or Burial: Does Our Choice Matter? I do not endorse much of what is posted on this site (the site on which the article that I have linked to above is posted), but I do concur with the thrust of this article even though I believe that it does not fully reflect all the biblical data...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

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    Is it pagan to cremate?

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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Cremation has zero biblical justification. Scattering the "cremains" makes what has been done all the worse.
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Reading in the Psalms this morning, I came across this statement: Psalm 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them. The verse inerrantly reveals that...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    No, Paul was not speaking of cremation in 1 Cor. 13:3. That is a misuse of Scripture. If that were what Paul were teaching, we should see both Testaments presenting multiple examples of where believers cremated others and were lauded for doing so. Your final paragraph is totally irrelevant. No...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    The issue is not whether God can deal with that or not. What pleases God and is acceptable to Him is what matters.
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    There is no biblical basis to support cremation, and many biblical bases support our very strongly encouraging all believers to bury their dead.
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Scripture shows that burial was not something that all of God's people of all time did because it was part of the Mosaic code. Job and Eliphaz were not Jews, they were never under the Mosaic Law, and yet they spoke of burial: Job Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    An account in 2 Samuel 21 teaches us that we should not regard dead bodies as essentially worthless shells that we can dispose of however we wish.
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    Are you denying that death and the subsequent decomposition of human bodies only came about because of God's judgment on man after the Fall of man (Gen. 3)? If so, we have much more fundamental differences than cremation vs. burial.
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    No, in one of my recent posts (#54), I showed from the Bible that being buried was God's reward for Jeroboam's lone son in which something good was found toward God but Jeroboam and all the rest who were of Jeroboam were judged by being denied burial. That is divine revelation that shows that...
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    Is it pagan to cremate?

    You say, "Its [sic] about the subjective preference of the family/relatives. Its [sic] irrelevant both to God and to the departed ones." You do not provide any Bible to support these positions. Why is that? Neither decomposition nor burning a body is a "natural" process. God is the One who...
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