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Is it pagan to cremate?

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joshua28 said:
As I have opportunity, I will try to ask someone in the leadership of my church about uploading to YouTube. I have no doubts about our livestream being entirely child friendly.
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That said its better if you not mark it as YouTube Kids, or if you do, upload it as a Video rather than as Live, because otherwise jt causes some annoyances related to playback, for example, it becomes twice as hard to add the video to a playlist and it won’t play in the background.
 
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This topic is very easy to reason with God's Word:
After the fall we know the judgment-
Genesis 3:19 (KJV)
[19] In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
From the earth came the dust of our body and to the earth the dust of our body returns... and what is God going to do with this earth in the end-
2 Peter 3:10 (KJV)
[10] But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
It seems God has cremation already planned for our body of dust...
 
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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, which taken together I believe categorically rules out cremation and supports burial as the right choice for all believers.
 
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I believe burial is preferable, not as a command or requirement; but as a testimony of our belief in the resurrection. But unfortunately that isn't always possible, especially modern financial concerns and how terrible the death industry is.

So cremation isn't a problem. It's not like cremation is going to impede God's ability to take dust and ashes and restore a person to immortal and bodily life in the resurrection. But I do believe that burial is a powerful testimony of our belief in the resurrection of the body.

That's my position: burial is a testimony of our faith, something we are saying about the temporality of death because in Christ death is broken and death has died; and the importance and goodness of the body. But it's not required, and we should never permit people to have fear or doubt that, if a person is not buried, then the hope of the resurrection is in any way less. For God shall drag us up from dirt and sea and make us live forever in that glorious future Day He has purposed for all creation.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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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 abomination that no believer should choose.
 
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If Scripture condemned cremation, this would be a valid argument. But Scripture is silent. I'm not about to condemn what God has not condemned. However I will still argue that burial is preferable because it is the historic practice of the Church, and because what burial says about our hope in the resurrection of the body.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Here is a treatment of a passage for you to consider:

 
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