Subject: Is creamation right? |
Bible Note: cherylmartel: __"I personally don't think God wishes this (cremation), but that's just my opinion." ..... At a funeral service I attended not long ago, the speaker, the pastor of the deceased, delivered a flowery eulogy and in it described at length and in vivid detail the passage of this member's soul from earth to heaven. So graphic was he in every detail that one had the sensation that this pastor had made the trip himself at some time or another. He told of how God had taken the spirit of this dearly beloved woman on a sight-seeing tour of His universe and shown her its beauty and majesty, and he opined on how pleased she must have been to see it. The tour, he said, ended at the pearly gates of heaven through which God escorted her. At least he did preface his remarks by saying that he couldn't prove them by Scripture but that he believed them nevertheless. What the pastor said, he said lovingly, beautifully, touchingly, consolingly. But was it scriptural? ..... The point is this. In matters spiritual and theological, of what value are human opinions that are not and cannot be supported by God's word? Whether the subject is cremation or what happens to the spirit at death, what ultimately matters is not what we personally may believe but what the Bible teaches. --Hank |