Subject: Is cremation right for believers? |
Bible Note: Only in an effort to give this discussion balance I would refer to 2 Cor 5 as follows: 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. You can be assured that Paul IS NOT talking about a house or a building on earth. He's talking about our earthly bodies as these verses are really connected to the previous Chapter 4. So, yes our bodies are a temple to God and we should not abuse them but God will destroy them, and the rest of this world, just like He destroyed the Israelite's temple with the Romans help in the first century. God bless. |