I thought the dead were already accepted into heaven? What am I missing?
Are these people going to be raised from the dead? Where have I seen that series before?
Posted on 12/29/2018 1:39:46 PM PST by bgill
A white elephant gift exchange has led a Houston woman to play a real-life version to reunite a family with the gift she received... The words "Neptune Society" are on its foot. A quick online search revealed it wasn't any ordinary bear. "I read that and then I started to feel, and it's almost like little pebbles or rocks," Desai said. After discovering what was hidden inside, the bear's tag made sense. "I hope I can bring you comfort in whatever life brings your way," Desai read. It then clicked. Desai realized the bear was filled with someone's remains.
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Your body is not done when you die. You may ridicule the Catholic Church and the Evangelicals all you like. But as a Christian you must know that on the day of judgment God will raise the dead.
Dang! It didn’t take me long to find the hacker who broke into my security cameras!
Between 4 and 6 lbs on average.
I thought the dead were already accepted into heaven? What am I missing?
Are these people going to be raised from the dead? Where have I seen that series before?
Catholics can be cremated, their remains must remain intact together though.
Thank you. When you use the word ossuary up thread, I google searched for additional info. I found the ancient Roman Catholics kept their bones together in such a device.
I’ve received mail from the Neptune society. Creeped me out because I wasn’t planning on departing anytime soon.
That figures; about 2 or 3% of trace elements once the volatile materials are gone. The volatile materials are the only ones that matter to me anyway. It makes up almost all of pizza and chocolate chip ice cream. If the best part of me can’t be preserved, then I don’t care what happens to it.
Oh, enough. Do you really think God expects us to preserve our bodies to make resurrection easier for him? From dust we came and to dust we will return. Our bodies die, decay, get eaten by worms, broken down into their constituent elements, recycled again as fertilizer, etc. The soul is gone. Putting so much emphasis on the body starts to sound like a pagan practice in itself.
I do not wish to over dramatize the arguments for or against burial over cremation.
BTTT The very idea someone would sew up the human remains of a formerly living person inside a teddy bear is still sick. Can you imagine the therapy bills that will be coming for years and years regarding a child who is given such a teddy bear?
“Here honey; this is dear sweet Nana. We burned her up and put her in this teddy bear just for you.”
“Sweet Dreams.”
I had to drop off a box of cremated remains once. About the size of a shoebox. It was going to the business office of a somewhat well known New Age group. I handed it to the secretary who looked at it curiously and said “what is it?”. Before I could answer she exclaimed “Oh my God! It’s Clarence!” She was really spooked by it.
In fact :) A non-human-remains teddy bear is disturbing enough. I mean, it’s a bear. They’re not cuddly in real life. I think they should just bury it. Or burn it again.
Done in Europe at least until the 80s or 90s if not still.
It’s an interesting topic. If you take a pile of wood and put a match to it, the same amount of “pollution,” is generated if it had been left to decompose. I believe the same is true of the human body.
There are arguments, discussions I’ve seen around “what about people eaten by animals, killed by sharks, blown up etc.” Every human ever born has died on this planet so they’re part of the biosphere that we call Earth i think a handful of ashes have been launched into outer space).
Everything that they were made of is still here and I believe can be made whole through God. I’m putting way to much thought into this, but I just can’t see putting $10k in the ground.
Unfortunately these lost cremains stories are all too common. People lose the remains of loved ones all the time, either stolen, or they end up and a teddy bear like this.
This is just a callous disregard for the sanctity of the human body. Bury someone or burn them. But at least have the decency to treat the remains with respect.
I have a brother who is mean and would not allow our oldest brother to even move back into the family home when he needed to. It was not even his call to make but he would not allow our older brother in the house. Six months later our oldest brother died alone in an empty apartment. It was six weeks before he was even found. It was left to me to handle the services. I threatened to have our brother cremated and sprinkle his ashes in and around our family home so as to haunt the brother who was so callous and mean. Of course I didn’t do any such thing, but if I had considered cremation, if I had no respect for earthly remains, I might have just done that.
Dittos on the 10K in the ground. Better to spend that money while living. But in death, like life, people like to show off. And funeral homes are only too happy to take your money.
In that respect I think of Christ and his body after the resurrection. His old one had vanished, but was it the same one as his new body? The new one could change form, appearing like a stranger to his disciples, or again as his original one, or as a glorified one. Angels in the Bible could either take the form of normal humans, or their real form, beautiful and full of God’s glory. I don’t think normal matter is capable of that.
Well I reject the notion that the human body or its remains has anything to do with the soul. The soul moves on. I believe that animals have souls too, although not the same as humans. I saw a soul leave a dead body once, so it seemed to me at the time. It went as if with a purpose, into another dimension or something. But the body was like a useless thing afterward.
“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and
may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” - 1Th 5:23
The Bible has this and a lot more to say about the body, soul and spirit. Whether alive or dead, I will honor and respect my body, spirit and soul.
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