“Japan, Korea, Taiwan and many other Asian country have millions of Christians where cremation is the only option. I don’t think Jesus Christ considers them any less Christian by the way they lived their lives just because their burial options were limited.”
The idea higher up in the thread is that ‘the body is nothing and the soul is everything’. Christians believe that the body is an essential part, and we believe in bodily resurrection. So - whenever possible a Christian should preserve the body in it’s final state.
Law prohibiting Christian burial are unjust laws and should be disregarded.
Do you seriously think our God, who can resurrect a body which has decayed into dust and bone fragments, could not do the same thing with one converted to ashes and bone fragments?
So apparently God is not big enough to put the body back together? If you can point to a Scripture, I’ll go along with you. Tradition doesn’t count.
Oh, and what about someone who dies a few hundred years ago, their body is dust. You might want to take a look at Genesis 3:19
We won’t be having the same bodies..not even close...Christ was dead 3 days ... “stinketh”.... you can be sure His was a “Glorified Body” resurrected...so too will ours.