Why does the bible says to bury our dead and about cremation ?

[emanuel88]

The Bible does not clearly define about cremation as a means to dispose of the dead. However, there is no scriptural prohibition of cremation in the New Testament. The Bible neither favors nor forbids the process of cremation.

1 Corinthians 15:35-55
“It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.”

However, there are Christian practices and heathen practices and in our day because of a lack of knowledge, some in the church have adopted heathen practices in numerous areas, besides just the practice of cremation. We can clearly see in the Bible the tradition of the Israelites, God’s chosen people, was to always bury their dead and never to burn dead bodies, as the heathen round about them did. This is demonstrated in the Old Testament, as well as the New Testament. Jesus, Himself, was buried in a tomb.

 

[MedicBravo]

God can do anything.
Therefore, if a body is "gone" he can recreate it as He sees fit in a glorified body.
Our meat sacks are temporary housing until we either go Home or Away Forever.

 

[Twistie]

I just wanna b wrapped in cloth n thrown in the ground

No funeral no viewing no coffin no embodiment.. if it was allowed I'd b burn on a canoe in a middle of the lake but it's prohibited

Twistie

 

[theLeadmonger]

When I'm reading the Bible with a view to finding a specific answer to a pertinent question about the law, I always bear in mind the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. To assume that anything not specifically forbidden is required would be an absurd joke, but to assume that anything not specifically prohibited is legally permitted is fallacious too. Jurisprudence is predicated on the written law, and also on precedent. There have been times in Israeli history when there was no Talmudic court, and Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, or Persia as well as a host of other small cities and nomadic Canaanite tribe's wars against the Israelites prevented or precluded rabbinical judges from administering justice.

As the tenth amendment says about the constitution, if it's not defined in the articles, or specific instructions are not given in the first nine amendments, then judgment is left up to the individual states in mediated disputes, and to individual voters in private matters of conscious (see also Amendment Four).

 

[backNforth]

From the OP:

Why does the bible says to bury our dead and about cremation ?​

Cremation Has A Heathen Origin & Purpose, Whereas God's People Have Always Practiced Burial
God's People Have Always Practiced Burial Even When Burial Was Difficult
God Practices Burial
Cremation Is A Sign Of God's Curse
For A Person Not To Have A Proper Burial Was Considered Dishonor
The Christian's Body Belongs To God: It Is Not Ours To Destroy By Fire or Any Other Means
God Has Plainly Called Cremation Wickedness
The Lord Jesus Was Buried, And He Is Our Great Example In All Things
Bury does not mean Under Ground

Chapter and verse is available for every assertion listed; just ask.

 

[theLeadmonger]

From the OP:

Why does the bible says to bury our dead and about cremation ?​

Cremation Has A Heathen Origin & Purpose, Whereas God's People Have Always Practiced Burial
God's People Have Always Practiced Burial Even When Burial Was Difficult
God Practices Burial
Cremation Is A Sign Of God's Curse
For A Person Not To Have A Proper Burial Was Considered Dishonor
The Christian's Body Belongs To God: It Is Not Ours To Destroy By Fire or Any Other Means
God Has Plainly Called Cremation Wickedness
The Lord Jesus Was Buried, And He Is Our Great Example In All Things
Bury does not mean Under Ground

Chapter and verse is available for every assertion listed; just ask.

That's interesting. Christianity has burial, as practiced by Joseph of Arimathea, in whose tomb Christ was laid. Do you know anything about Ancient Jewish burial, perhaps from the time of Solomon, whose reign saw Israel at its most peaceful and geographically extensive?

What would you say to someone who just said, "well, I don't need to spend money on a funeral and a burial plot, I know that the departed will be resurrected on the last day anyway? Someone like that might decide on creation, as it costs considerably less.

 

[backNforth]

What would you say to someone who just said, "well, I don't need to spend money on a funeral and a burial plot, I know that the departed will be resurrected on the last day anyway? Someone like that might decide on creation, as it costs considerably less.

Obedience (to God and his word) is better than sacrifice (1 Sam. 15:22).

There's no reason why burial should involve spending such money; all that is mere socially conditioned worldly behavior.

I spiritually agree with the following portion of Twistie's assessment:

I just wanna b wrapped in cloth n thrown in the ground

No funeral no viewing no coffin no embodiment.

 

[MedicBravo]

When I'm reading the Bible with a view to finding a specific answer to a pertinent question about the law, I always bear in mind the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. To assume that anything not specifically forbidden is required would be an absurd joke, but to assume that anything not specifically prohibited is legally permitted is fallacious too. Jurisprudence is predicated on the written law, and also on precedent. There have been times in Israeli history when there was no Talmudic court, and Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, or Persia as well as a host of other small cities and nomadic Canaanite tribe's wars against the Israelites prevented or precluded rabbinical judges from administering justice.

As the tenth amendment says about the constitution, if it's not defined in the articles, or specific instructions are not given in the first nine amendments, then judgment is left up to the individual states in mediated disputes, and to individual voters in private matters of conscious (see also Amendment Four).

No book can contain the rules/policies/etc on every single thing. The FF knew what they were doing and given how an Amendment was largely a clarification of this or that thing.
The Bible does the same thing. I don't want people coming to my grave/urn/site/whatever and talking to me as if I'm going to bounce down from Heaven and sit beside my living relatives.
Just as Earth is our temporary home, our meatsack is our temporary "suit" until we go home.

 

[emanuel88]

God Practices Burial

please. ;D

 

[Curtis]

Gen 3:19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Makes no difference as being cremated just hastens the process of returning back to dust.

 

[B-A-C]

Matt 8:21 Another of the disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."
Matt 8:22 But Jesus *said to him, "Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead."

Luke 9:59 And He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."
Luke 9:60 But He said to him, "Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God."
Let.. "the dead" ... bury there own dead. I have always taken these two passages to mean.. "let the un-saved" bury their dead.
Still, Jesus was sealed in tomb for 3 days.
It seems burial was a practice in New testament times.

Matt 14:12; His disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.
Luke 16:22; "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.
Acts 2:29; "Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 5:6; The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.
Acts 5:9; Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."
Acts 5:10; And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Acts 8:2; Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.

..and we are symbolically buried with Christ.

Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
1Cor 15:4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
Col 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

 

[Brad Huber]

Yes, its better to lose your home and starve to death as long as your bury your progenitors.

 

[Rockerduck]

Don't forget how many Christian's were burned on the stake, standing up for their faith. It doesn't matter. Go visit old graveyard's before embalming. Lots of trees and they all became plant food. Do you want to be embalmed? All your organs removed and veins filled; so you are preserved for 100 yrs. with no organs. No thanks.

 

[MedicBravo]

If you go to most graveyards there comes a time in the past where the average adult death date is much earlier. You'll also see a LOT of child deaths ranging from the same day as they were born, days, and even just a few weeks. You might even see the mother's death day is the same as the child's
I do NOT want my former meat sack to be "embalmed". It's a moronic thing.
I'm not in there and when God decides to resurrect Christians I/we don't be old, maimed, deformed, etc.
It makes the most sense that God will give us a glorified Prime body that is for eternity rather than one when we died.
It's also why those who died young will likely be "aged" to this age/state.
People were also burned for heresy and witchcraft. Ah, our ancestors......

 

[Garee]

From the OP:

Why does the bible says to bury our dead and about cremation ?​

Cremation Has A Heathen Origin & Purpose, Whereas God's People Have Always Practiced Burial
God's People Have Always Practiced Burial Even When Burial Was Difficult
God Practices Burial
Cremation Is A Sign Of God's Curse
For A Person Not To Have A Proper Burial Was Considered Dishonor
The Christian's Body Belongs To God: It Is Not Ours To Destroy By Fire or Any Other Means
God Has Plainly Called Cremation Wickedness
The Lord Jesus Was Buried, And He Is Our Great Example In All Things
Bury does not mean Under Ground

Chapter and verse is available for every assertion listed; just ask.

I would offer. . .Personal preference. . all fly away and are no more. No law etched in stone.

Our bodies of death returns to the dust. The whole creation will go up in smoke. It will not be rebuilt (re-incarnation) with the corrupted rudiments but an entirely new creation is in store .

One thing I have been looking at is the difference between a grave buried under (non breathable). and Tomb or mausoleum that is above ground (breathable.)

If the Son of man Jesus 3 days, or Lazarus 4 days were buried underground they would of been dead after ten minutes .The father strengthening Jesus kept his body of death from corrupting to that point. . . as evidence of salvation. Two working by one power . Not as I will said jesus but you father the one with power to raise. .

The Father that began the promised 3 day and nights demonstration of the Father and Son in the garden of Gethsemane .The father not seen working with Jesus working with Jesus . . bruising his heel , , ,a wound ( not dead) strengthening him in . Then moving on to part two of three part three days and nights demonstration the hill of the skull the bloody demonstration. . . In the end the tomb the last part of three part. . The Father removed the grave clothed and rolled back the stone together finishing the promised demonstration of salvation .

Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; (suffering) neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.( dead never to rise )

The 4 day demonstration with lazarus had a different conclusion as to purpose The Father moved the disciples to roll back the stone and remove the grave clothes helping them to understand that dead to a person who has born again from above is dead asleep jesus wept because they did not understand the meaning of dead to a believer.

It would seem the differences in the kind of demonstration.

One speaks of the work of salvation 3 days the father kept the Son of man jesus from dying to the point of no return. The other demonstration the disciples introduces them to fellowship .

John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Though he were dead = not is dead

Again this time the disciples performed the stinky job .The father as the promised work of two did with Jesus

John 11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.