So you are saying that unless the body was interred intact, there is no afterlife? So good Christians whose bodies were torn to bits by animals will not be resurrected? G_d fearing folks who died in the forest and were disposed of by bears, wolves, foxes, birds, and worms will never be resurrected because they were not interred in a graveyard? Nor will those whose bones were scattered by floods even though buried correctly? What about those whose mortal remains were literally blown apart in explosions?
To think that G_d *needs* to bring ones mortal remains together to pass judgement is one of the least intellectually defensible positions I have ever heard. Even the Orthodox Church doesn’t follow that line of “reason”.
How insulting is that to any Christian or Jew (though most Judaism isn’t much for the afterlife thing...) who died at the hands of violence that literally sundered their bodies? Or those that were immolated in fire like the twin towers, their ashes scattered to the winds? The bodies of people from the Titanic are nowhere to be seen, but there are photos of a man’s boots lying on the bottom exactly where they would have been with his body when he landed on the bottom.
Sorry, I think you are utterly and completely mistaken in the whole “body must be intact” construct.
As I said: We HAVE a body. We ARE a soul. The body is a mere vessel for us to use for the glorification of our Creator. A tool, to be discarded when our service on this plane is completed.
No, just saying in the Bible, a Judeo-Christian burial with your fathers was a sign of being right with God. Not always, but as a general rule. Why would a Christian adopt pagan burial practices?
Two thumbs up, Don!