Bayard - “Hope none of those were baptized.
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and by grace God resided with the entire person who lived. It is not a piece of garbage.
1 Corinthians 6:17-20”
Ruffian - “So Christians don’t decay and rot?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, doesn’t apply to us?
LOL.”
Thank you, Bayard.
To Ruffian: A devolving (un-Godly) society begins to treat their fellow men as garbage heaps, as they have done with innocent unborn children. There is no respect of life from the living. Remind you of any time in history? This is not about God’s plan and purpose in the natural course of His word. It is about how man treats man and what value is placed upon an individual created in the image of God.
Its a sad statement.
If you want to look historically what Christians did that was very significantly different than the practices of pagan world around them, you can go to the 1st, 2nd century catacombs.
Christians were noted for not cremating remains, but for putting their dead into underground niche’s under the city of Rome and elsewhere.
The difference is Christians expected that Christ would come again and raise the dead to life restoring the remains to perfection if they were to enter heaven.
Christians respected the body because it was the house of God’s grace. Christians are not duelists, thinking only the spirit goes to heaven and that the Body is evil. You are a Body and a Soul, not a Soul that has a Body.
I’ve often seen the parallel in our growing atheistic society and practices like body mods, obscene tattoos, the trans movement, ect. The Transsexual movement is a notable example of dualism, because they think themselves to be another gender “trapped” inside the wrong sex body.
Thank you. We treat animals with more respect today than humans and it’s sick.