[NRx]

How sad. Until about 50 years ago almost every Christian church/denomination held the line on this sacrilegious practice as well as most Jews. Today cremation is sanctioned by almost all. I think even the Catholics who heroically stood against it long after most others caved have yielded.

[NRx]

Title rather poorly abbreviated to fit.

[miss marmelstein]

Catholics do allow cremation now. As a Catholic, I condemn this practice - along with allowing tattoos and other biblical and long-held Catholic proscriptions.

[Gamecock]

“Many claim that the Church should care for people’s souls only and leave the body alone. That is not true: the Church cares for the whole human being who is saved in his or her psychosomatic unity, gaining the Divine grace.”

My favorite Baptist, Dr. Al Mohler, is against cremation. He believes the burial of a body is a testimony of the hope we have in the bodily resurrection. (First Corinthians 15)

[taxcontrol]

Right now I have no bias pro or con for cremation. I’m of the mind that we are creatures of spirit and once we pass from this earth, the body no longer holds any value.

I am willing to be persuaded one way or the other but subject to the following New testament based hierarchy:

1) A direct teaching attributed to Jesus
2) A similar or indirect teaching attributed to Jesus
3) A direct or indirect teaching from the apostles

Quotes from Popes, pastors, priest, monks, good guys, and other text need not apply.

[SkyDancer]

What difference does it make if you turn to ash in thirty minutes or thirty years. We are told we will be given a body that’s pleasing to Him. So according to this resplendently clothed guy (guess Yeshua wore that stuff) that if you burn up in a fire you’re toast?

[Twinkie]

Years ago, I mentioned cremation to my mother. She about
had a fit. (I just mentioned it for myself!) She begged me
to reconsider and not be cremated. She said it was NOT a
Christian burial. - She died in 1999. Dad in 2002. I
arranged a really nice burial for them both in nice caskets!
- Husband & I both have life insurance to pay for us a both
a decent burial. - I’ve also told our son that if I live,
HE will also have a decent burial, even though his church
has gone over to cremation. He was glad to hear me say it
as he didn’t really want cremation anyway. MIL decreed
cremation for her & FIL; but, if their preacher had told
them to ram their heads into a wall, she would have ran
as fast as possible into the nearest wall.