Featured The Disciples of Christ and cremation, what does the Lord say about it?

You will have to restate what you are saying here because I cannot follow what you have said.

 

Well, He did more than that. He said “let the DEAD bury their dead”

He doesn’t say anything about believers, who are alive in Christ, burying their dead.

So, if you want to take this passage as authoritative, it only applies to unbelievers.

So, I will agree with you in this; Jesus has clearly declared unbelievers must bury their dead.

If you really want to take your position to its logical conclusion, Jesus is telling believers not to worry about what happens to family members that die, let someone else take care of it. Believers are to focus on following Jesus.

peace to you

 

I have found the moderators to be mostly fair minded and respectful, even in disagreement.

We can disagree without assuming the motives and biases of those we debate. No need to declare someone “carnal” and “wolves” because they disagree with you.

BTW, you are essentially declaring someone to be unsaved when you use such language.

peace to you

 

You are speaking untruthfully. Jesus replied to His disciples “let the dead bury the dead, you follow Me”.

He told His disciple he shouldn’t be concerned about what happens to dead relatives. Let those who are dead (unbelievers) bury the dead.

His disciples only concern should be following Jesus, not worrying about what to do with dead bodies.

Can you see how easily some can twist the very Words of our Lord Jesus to invent false doctrine to turn God’s faithful flock to arguments over what to do with dead bodies when Jesus very clearly stated…

….”LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD”!!!!…

May God open your eyes to this grievous error and your continuing attempts to cause discord among the brethren and bring you to repentance.

peace to you

 

I understand CalTech. You have no answer for the truth I spoke, so you tag my comment as “funny”.

I would tag your response as “sad”.

peace to you

 

You are misrepresenting what Jesus said. He did not say, "Let the dead bury the dead." He said, "Let the dead bury their dead."

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Luke 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

While you are challenging others about speaking truth, it is vital that you do the same.

 

Where does the Scripture give all these details? It does not. You are adding to what Scripture provides and then basing your questions on aspects that Scripture does not talk about.

More importantly, no, the discussion that I am interested in is not on the specifics of burial, etc. It is on what Scripture does or does not say or teach about cremation (an utterly pagan practice) versus burial.

Others may want to discuss other aspects. I am only interested in discussing the Bible.

 

I stand corrected. Thank you. So, based on your statement, Jesus isn’t giving any guidance to believers in these passages concerning how believers should handle of their own dead.

You have just disproven your own argument these passages are instructions to believers to “bury” and not “cremate”.

Thanks again for revealing the truth of the matter.

Peace to you

 

Wife and I don't want cremation as it just seems unnatural to us. Myself and my neighbors all have our own family cemeteries on our land here.

I'll be buried on the top of my ridge when I pass, so will my wife, and likely my kids and grandkids when they all go.

Cost-wise it's fairly cheap. A neighbor will haul a trackhoe up to the bench of the ridge and dig a grave out for little to no cost. The family (and community if needed) gets together to lower the box and that's it. Once a year in springtime we have Decoration Day. A local preacher will preach a sermon in the cemetery and the descendants of the dead will bring flowers and decorations for the graves and also clean up the cemetery.

 

I wonder? What if someone is cremated and then the ashes were buried? That would fulfill the requirement, wouldn’t it?

peace to you

 

I suspect that is pretty much how it’s been done throughout US history, until recently.

peace to you

 

LOL, the verse say the dead (unsaved) bury, thus those saved are not to bury. If you can read your nonsense into the text, i.e only burial is supported by scripture, when people were burned in Gehenna, is idiotic false doctrine.