[cuban leaf]

Yeah, at a high level I sort of take it as instruction to care about bringing the Good News to the living more than about taking care of dead bodies, which are just so much rotting meat once the person leaves what Paul calls your “tent”.

[Campion]

Wrong seven ways to Thursday. You miss the whole point of the Gospel passage, which has nothing to do with funerals and everything to do with putting a priority on following Jesus. Worse, you completely miss out on any kind of Christian anthropology when you dismiss the dead body of a Christian as "rotting meat". Paul says in Romans 8 that we await the redemption of our BODIES. Did you perhaps forget that Jesus Christ's "rotting meat" was raised from the dead bodily? Or perhaps you don't really believe in the Resurrection?

The "body is just rotting meat, the soul is all that counts" idea is Greek Platonism, not Christianity.

[Biggirl]

A gentle correction is in order.

A Christian funeral is done not only to say “goodbye” the the believer, bring confort to those who are left behind, and also to celibrate the life of that person.

[Biggirl]

Plus even in death, a Christian’s body was were the Holy Spirit lived in.