Posted on 12/26/2011 11:52:08 AM PST by Dallas59
Question on Cremation. Does the Bible say anything about it? Is it forbidden?
None that I know of, but I’m sure there are people who have found a principle/text in Scripture that they believe applies to cremation. This should be an interesting discussion.
Ashes to Ashes.. Dust to Dust.
I would have mine sprankled on the tomatos so that everyone could eat me...
like pepper
Seriously, I am not aware of specific burial procedures for Christians.
Not that I know of in the Bible, but I know the Catholic Church sure frowns on the practice.
Kinda! LoL
The bible says nothing about cremation although many bible based religions prohibit it.
It is not forbidden as far as I have found!
Buried at sea, Creamated, Buried on land, etc. What difference does it make? The Bible makes it a point to talk of bury the dead. In that time period, that is all that was available. What is important is to clear the remains of what was the person here on earth from the surface of this earth. If you’ve done that, you’ve taken care of it.
Creamation was always a pagan practice. Some believe it was started as a slight, to make God work at finding you on judgement day.
There is no command against it in Scripture, though.
More like manure. Tomato plants love ashes.
Seems it is fine as long as they are buried in consecrated ground.
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=645&CFID=111867998&CFTOKEN=89296457
“You can’t store Grandma on the mantel or scatter your father’s ashes across the 13th green of his favorite golf course,” advises Father Peter Polando, canon lawyer and pastor of St. Matthias Parish in Youngstown, Ohio. “The Church has strong feelings about the fact that this body has been a temple of the Holy Spirit and requires a proper burial as a result.”
By definitions supplied from funeral-industry literature, cremation is the process of reducing the body to bone fragments through the application of intense heat. The bone fragments are then pulverized, and placed within a temporary container before being returned to the family.
Catholic burial practice calls for the cremains to be buried in an urn within a consecrated grave or placed inside a mausoleum. Keeping ashes at home or scattering them on land or sea, even where legal, is inappropriate to the Church’s deep reverence for the body as a place where the soul has resided, As “Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia” notes:
“Cremation was the normal custom in the ancient civilized world, except in Egypt, Judea and China. It was repugnant to early Christians because of the belief in the resurrection of the body. By the fifth century, cremation had been largely abandoned in the Roman Empire because of Christian influence.”
My Uncle was the curator of the local graveyard.
I have seen all sorts of mourning and wishes.
All are to be respected.
The traditional view: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04481c.htm
The “modern” view:
http://www.cathcemtoledo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=41
Although cremation is permitted, Catholic teaching continues to stress the preference for burial or entombment of the body of the deceased. This is done in imitation of the burial of Jesus’ body. “This is the Body once washed in baptism, anointed with the oil of salvation, and fed with the bread of life. Our identity and self consciousness as a human person are expressed in and through the body . . .Thus, the Church’s reverence and care for the body grows out of a reverence and concern for the person whom the Church now commends to the care of God.”
I am sure someone can give you a better answer but as I understand, the Catholic Church use to frown on it but it is now accepted unless it is done for unsound purposes
Remember my Uncle Bob? Although he was not sprinkled on tomatoes, but sent out to sea. He is the one that really made me think that cremation is for me. We know our earthly bodies are of no use after we pass. Well, except to possibly help others.
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