Is there anywhere in the Bible that says if you’re cremated you won’t go to heaven?
I have a question..
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Hello @Bevc00, this short article and/or video (the text of the video and the text of the article are the same) may be helpful.
~Deut
p.s. - the short answer to your question is "no" (unless the fact that no one was cremated in the Bible gives you reason for pause
).
~Deut
p.s. - the short answer to your question is "no" (unless the fact that no one was cremated in the Bible gives you reason for pause
).
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Since the body returns to the dust, it really doesnt matter how that happens, whether by decomposition, burning, or even drowning and decomposing under water. The spirit instantly returns to God at death and the body itself will never be ressurected. A flesh body has only in special cases been ressurected.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Since the body returns to the dust, it really doesnt matter how that happens, whether by decomposition, burning, or even drowning and decomposing under water. The spirit instantly returns to God at death and the body itself will never be ressurected. A flesh body has only in special cases been ressurected.
for death, the soul is separate to the flesh.
The soul is what matters the most.
There are those who do see the scripture:
1 Corinthians 3:17, NIV: "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple."
1 Corinthians 3:17, NASB: "If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are."
many see cremation as destroying the temple ( the body) .The body should be honored, there are many things done in burial that were to less honoring. God is HIS power is still able to call forth every molecule and place it in the order and bring back to life. I saw no honor in the millions of bodies bulldozed in to a large pit that were jews after th surrender of Germany in WWII.
many today only choose this method because of the cost to bury a person. Also many people want to be cremated. My Dad said he want to, I told him I will not do that and explained to him the body is made in the image of God and I must honor it. He said he did not want to be a burden on his children. I told him when is burying your parent a burden? The one person who took on the burden of raising me.
I will not say that a person who is cremated will not go to heaven once I am dead those who have my body will decide and that is no longer my decision.
I have not read that anywhere in the Bible.. If it was the case then Christians who died in fires where their body is consumed by fire would be damned.. The teaching is ludicrous and un-Biblical..
As for the quoted scripture.. This is one reason why i trust in the KJV
1 Corinthians 3: KJV
16"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? {17} If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."
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eternally-gratefull
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The passage about the temple speaks of sexual sin. Not the destruction of the physical body.
that's false.
the body is resurrected, else Christ Himself wasn't resurrected.
God made our bodies from dust, and can certainly put them together again.
Well..
This current flesh and blood cannot inherit eternity with God.. We shall be resurrected in bodies but that will be changed glorified bodies.. Uncomfortable bodies.. Perfect bodies.. They will not be our old bodies reformed..
So while we are resurrected.. Our current faulty corrupt flesh bodies will not..
As for Jesus who was not born with the sin inherited from Mary because He was formed by the Spirit.. His body was and still is perfect without blemish not the same as ours..
Yes.. They are a reminder.. They will be an eternal reminder..
amen, the wounds He received in the house of His friends
so then i'd say the body is resurrected - changed, redeemed, perfected, but still the body. we will recognize each other.
if not why did God hide Moses? and why would Satan seek his body? surely not because it is meaningless.
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eternally-gratefull
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He felt pain could be hurt and died
He did nit get his resurrected body until after like we will
Some hold the position that the sin nature is passed down through the father,
since sin entered the world through Adam, not Eve, even though Eve sinned first.
I totally disagree.. Woman inherited the sin nature and pass it on just as men do.. And how can one have the position that Sin entered the world through Adam when Eve was the first to sin?
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Blackpowderduelist
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How? Because that is what Scripture explicitly and unequivocally says.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin,
so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. Romans 5:12
Do you really not know this?
i am one of those some
the life is in the blood, and the infant gestating in the womb receives no blood from the mother.
It's written 'in Adam all die' - but Woman was renamed Eve because she would be the mother of all that live.
Amen. And from this also is postulated how Jesus could resist temptation, for His Father was/is Godi am one of those some
the life is in the blood, and the infant gestating in the womb receives no blood from the mother.
It's written 'in Adam all die' - but Woman was renamed Eve because she would be the mother of all that live.
Since Mary "knew" no man, and was caused to conceive Jesus via the Holy Spirit
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eternally-gratefull
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Because that’s what the bible says
in Adam all die
If it was eve it would say in eve all die