I recently heard on the radio an Evangelical pastor condemning cremation for disposing of human remains. He played the image of God card. He felt like the only acceptable way of disposing of human remains was to inter them in a sealed casket and burying them in the ground.
This sounds more Catholic than Christian to me. Catholics are the ones railing against abortion. They make heroic efforts to sustain life. They seem to have no concept of the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. The dead in Christ rising first at the Rapture that the Bible teaches plainly.
Cemeteries take up space and they are places where very few people ever go to visit. Why spend a fortune just to have a place where, once it is over, you may never visit again.
What about those who died in war or in an explosion and there is no body to recover? What about those lost at sea where the fish ate what what left of them? Are they doomed because they were not buried? What about those who were buried in a pine box? There was a time where only kings were buried in tombs.
Cremation is an economical way to humanely dispose of human remains. There is nothing in the Bible to prohibit cremation.
We need to get truth from the Bible, not from the Catholics or the Mormons or from any other false religion.
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