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

Your vitriol that you often spew when you interact with people on this board speaks volumes about you. I will not waste time interacting with you further.

 

You are badly mistaken, perhaps because you do not read carefully what people say. In effect, you are refuting a straw man. I did not make the argument that you claim that I did.

 

I did not call any Christians lost. You are misrepresenting what I said.

 

What do these statements about Baptist distinctives, etc.have to do with cremation versus burial?

 

This is what you said:

I never called any Christians lost.

 

False, I detest the CoC. I have been a faithful member of independent, fundamental Baptist churches all of my Christian life. When people claim that the Bible does not speak to an issue but it actually does, I challenge their claims biblically.

 

Wrong. You wrongly connected thoughts that I expressed but did not directly connect. I did not use the word "therefore" in my statements to connect the statements.

 

No, I did not imply nor do I believe that cremation is acceptable. The Bible does not provide any basis for Christians to choose cremation and teaches emphatically the vital importance of a proper burial.

Joseph was not cremated.

 

You do not see that the argument you made (that Jesus said “let the dead bury THEIR dead”) actually undermines the very premise of your argument that Jesus commands Christians to “bury” their dead.

You clearly stated Jesus was not speaking to Christians in those passages, so your argument has been disproven by your own words, whether you see it/admit it or not.

peace to you

 

Here's a challenge to you. Prove with direct quotes of the exact words that I said (with the number of the comment) from anything that I have said how your claim that I "clearly stated Jesus was not speaking to Christians in those passages" is valid. Where and when did I say that Jesus was not speaking to Christians in those passages?

You are mixing up what others have said with what I have said.

 

I would dispute the validity of many of these statements, but doing so would only serve to move the discussion further and further away from the subject of the thread. I do not care what you say CoC do or do not do. I believe in intensely studying the totality of the Bible and allowing it to direct everything that we are to do, whether by explicit statement or necessary inferences, etc.

 

This challenge was not to you. Someone else made a claim. That person needs to back up his claim with direct quotes from what he claims I said.

 

Your post #90 where you accused me of misrepresenting what Jesus said.

So, you corrected me (an astute observation BTW, well done) that Jesus actually stated “let the dead bury their dead”.

Your argument is that Jesus is giving instructions in these passages that Christians should be buried.

But then you rightly point out in the verses you are using to support that claim, Jesus isn’t talking about believers but rather “the dead bury their dead” For believers, Jesus says “follow Me” and “preach the kingdom of God”.

Now, unless you are claiming believers are “dead”, and are not commanded in these verses to follow Jesus, you are, in fact, saying Jesus was speaking about unbelievers in these passages “burying” their dead.

And that does disprove your argument.

peace to you