“Can you explain further how cremation contradicts the law of God?”
I did my best to find scripture prohibiting cremation before originally asking that, could only find something externally explanatory to the effect that Saul and his sons had been cremated because the Philistines had defiled their bodies. I also remember that the Israelites burned the bodies of defeated peoples in Canaan.
I cannot agree that God prohibits cremation. I’m willing to believe it if anyone can provide a scriptural reference other than “Christian teachings”.
I think the best argument is to look at why people defend cremation - it’s right up here in the thread. The concept that the ‘spirit is everything the body is nothing’, is being reinforced by cremation.
It’s one thing for a body to turn to dust by the passage of time, quite another to deliberately turn a body to dust. You wouldn’t dig up a body and cremate the body would you? Why not? If the ‘body is nothiing’, then there’s no reason not to dig up the body because you aren’t defiling anything.