should chrisitians

[Guest Zayit]

What is a body? Is a body simply a husk, merely a carbon-based organic entity with some slick programming to generate responses to sensory input? Certainly not. As Judaism explains it, the human body is the physical element in a complex and ultimately spiritual being. The human body is not simply the housing for the spiritual essences, it is part and parcel of the combined human being -- a being that will ultimately exist in greater spiritual form in the World to Come, after the Resurrection. For when the World to Come begins, and we stand up at the Resurrection, we will stand up with combined body and soul, though both will be raised to a much higher spiritual level than at which we stand today.

Burning is reserved for those opposed to G-d.

Ask yourself what would have happened if Jesus was cremated? It would be a logical way to make sure he didn't resurect as he said he would, why , because it was forbidden, this was the ways of the heathen. Why do you think that Hitler found it so 'convienient' to burn all those Jews?

[Ahavah]

Interesting point, but we were made from the dust...in essence....and we return to the dust. A body that died over 5000 years decomposes into nothing..so just wondering..what's the difference?

[Guest Zayit]

Yeah I find this interesting too:

To cremate is to deny the resurrection, according to Orthodox Jews

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Because to me I don't believe as this:

Those of us in the non-Orthodox community generally hold two other views of life after death. Few of us believe in resurrection. Rather we maintain that, after we die, the soul, the imperishable God-like part of us, will return to God. The body, on the other hand, will go back to the dust from which it originally came into life.

And to me a Believing 'Orthodox' Jew I would have to say the same thing, for isn't that our hope because Yeshua did?

Edited June 15, 2005 by Zayit

[Guest Zayit]

Sha'ul said we shall be changed, to be like him, to have a body incorruptable as he ( Yeshua) has, but he didn't say ex-changed,which would mean that the flesh is temporary and should be treated as throw away and get something new.

[Ovedya]

I think that some believers are bothered by cremation because they believe that it will somehow prevents our bodily resurrection.

[Ovedya]

I don't think it matters, but I would be cautious about spreading your ashes.  Because of what is stated in scripture about the resurrection, the body needs to be in one location. 

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Again, I doubt that would prove to be any challenge to God.

[Ovedya]

Burning is reserved for those opposed to G-d.

Ask yourself what would have happened if Jesus was cremated? It would be a logical way to make sure he didn't resurect as he said he would, why , because it was forbidden, this was the ways of the heathen. Why do you think that Hitler found it so 'convienient' to burn all those Jews?

If Jesus were cremated then we'd all be wearing little flasks of ashes around our necks instead of crosses. Or, if He were hung, then we'd all be wearing little golden nooses.

I'd like to see a Scripture in the Bible where God forbids cremation. After all, technically weren't the offerings all cremated?

[Guest precious_n_07]

Hi! I think it is completely okay if someone wants to get cremated. Your spirit isn't there and that is the only thing that really goes to heaven. So I think it is okay.

[Iryssa]

1 Corinthians 15:35-49 says clearly that our resurrected bodies will not be our earthly perishable bodies.

35But someone may ask,

Edited June 15, 2005 by Iryssa

[Guest Zayit]

Burning is reserved for those opposed to G-d.

Ask yourself what would have happened if Jesus was cremated? It would be a logical way to make sure he didn't resurect as he said he would, why , because it was forbidden, this was the ways of the heathen. Why do you think that Hitler found it so 'convienient' to burn all those Jews?

If Jesus were cremated then we'd all be wearing little flasks of ashes around our necks instead of crosses. Or, if He were hung, then we'd all be wearing little golden nooses.

I'd like to see a Scripture in the Bible where God forbids cremation. After all, technically weren't the offerings all cremated?

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No, not all, I'm Jewish, we don't do crosses.