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.
“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.”
OK, since we aren’t going to discuss actual scripture, what about Christian contagious plague victims who were cremated to prevent spread of nasty pathogens?
Since God did a good job telling us what we could and could not eat, I would think he would have been similarly explicit with instructions if preservation of the deceased’s physical body is so important.
I’m sorry, I can’t agree that God prohibits cremation based upon some extrapolation and Christian teachings that can’t be backed up by scriptural reference.
I respect your belief but cannot agree with it.