Subject: DOES GOD AGREE WITH CREMATION |
Bible Note: Johnny I said the Bible does not specify burial or cremation and there is no prohibition against cremation. I then explained that both were really the same process only cremation takes place on a much faster scale. You had said, “since the only example in the bible was burial therefore we are to bury and by default that makes cremation unacceptable.” I then said, “if we use that reasoning or logic since vehicles were never mentioned in the bible as a proper way to transport a dead person then most certainly the only acceptable way to get a body to the cemetery would be by carrying it or by donkey.” Your logic is based on the premise that because it isn’t mentioned in the bible or that the Bible only shows it done this way this is the only way it can be done. And I’m saying if you hold to that logic then you must do every thing exactly like the Bible specifies which includes carrying the body rather than transporting it by vehicle. It would also preclude the use of caskets since the bodies of bible times was wrapped in linen and embalming since the bodies were packed in spices. EdB |