“Show me where Scripture permits cremation.”
1 Samuel 31:12
(King James Version)
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
Show me where Scripture prohibits cremation.
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people. “They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.”
You forget this part? The philistines defiled Saul’s body.
Is that all you’ve got? The Jews burning the body of their king after he’d been defiled?
“show me where Scripture prohibits cremation.”
I’m sorry it doesn’t work that way. You have to show where scripture permits cremation.
It’s one thing to argue that a christian burial isn’t right, it’s quite another to get from there to saying, ‘cremation is a-ok’. No, no, it’s not.
In fact, if we look at your passage, cremation was intended to remove the defilement.