Some of us, as Believers, can't afford to be buried. So cremation is another option. We're to be concerned more about the state of our souls more than what happens to our bodies. My humble opinion.
God is all powerful, and His ability extends beyond our finite mentality. If He can create a man from dust, He certainly can resurrect a person from ashes of cremation!
I used to work at a cemetery, for the price of a plot you could use for a down payment on a home . Embalming, headstone, location of burial property ( varies), funeral , casket, extra price for workers to lower the casket into the ground , your talking 10-20 grand, and that was in 2006 , and prices have even gone up, I say just cremate me and flush me down the toilet I’ll be with Jesus anyway ❤😂 😂
Wow. So, this is what we get life insurance for. A lot of money wasted to just bury. I wonder when did burial become a business like so many other things.
My grandmother just passed away last Saturday, my parents couldn’t afford to bury her. It would’ve cost them $25,000. That is absolutely ridiculous, the cemetery, funeral homes, and coroners are going to have alot to answer for one day.
God doesn't need to find ashen molecules to resurrect someone who has been cremated. All He requires is dust and the deceased person's spirit. which returns to Him when the person dies(Eccl. 12:7). The _spirit_ is what retains the information about their physical appearance at the time of death. That's why it doesn't ultimately matter where Moses was buried. If He wanted to, God could just as easily use the dirt in my backyard to resurrect him.
My understanding as believers is to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!!! It’s the soul (not the body itself) that goes to be with Lord Jesus). Thank you so much for the teaching brother Corey!!! It makes sense (at least to me). God bless you and yours🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽
I'm so glad you are addressing this subject. So many Christians believe that cremation is a sin and burial is the only Godly option. Many have gone into debt trying to pay for a funeral they couldn't afford. God will raise all believers from the dead with new bodies. He is God and how he does it is inconsequential to me.
I don't see how it's a sin. Biblically there is no commandment nor does it make any logical sense. Just bc you want to be buried, it does not mean your wishes will be honored.
God is good! I was just talking to my wife about burial because her mother just passed and got cremated. So I didn’t know how to go about being buried. I always thought it was a sin to be cremated but Corey, you just answered my question. Thank you and all glory go to God for showing me this. God is so good!!❤
@@pigjubby1 Before you die, (YOU) make that decision whether to be buried or cremated in (MOST)cases. Most people have their burial planned before their death. So yes, if you already planned your burial before death then it was (YOUR) choice. Which I always thought it was a sin to cremate. But Corey has cleared that up for me. God bless
Amen. I feel the same way as you, Corey. Your point about those who suffered amputation during their earthly lives is a very good one. My father, grandmother, and husband died with missing limbs. I’ve never, for once, imagined their amputations would be part of their glorified bodies. 😢
Thank you for this Bro C. My brother passed unexpectedly in January of this year. The entire process went smooth on his homegoing arrangements, but things got testy regarding burial or cremation. He was buried, but my mom kept saying that cremation was a sin. That never set well with me because I never heard of any scriptures that denounced it. My mom kept bringing up the scripture about dry bones, and she explained that God needs those bones to gather for the glorified body. Unfortunately, my mom is a Hebrew Israelite, and anytime I counter with her in the Word, it can get a bit ugly. So, in regards to my brother, I just let her have that one because the grief is too great. Again, thank you because I did have question marks.
A living person IS a soul. Contrary to what pagan "Christianity" teaches, the soul is _not_ something that is inside a person. It is physical matter that can die, and _will_ eventually die. Gen. 2 says the dirt _became a living soul_ when God breathed life into it. Notice it doesn't say that God shoved a soul into the dirt.
My father was a Baptist pastor. And a Padre in a Canadian armoured unit in WWII. His experience in burying soldiers Kia was that there is simply no use for our bodies after death. I accept his teaching.
@@kevinj2412 Well brother you are definitely in the minority. Christianity, both Catholics and Protestants have been relying on this prayer at funerals for generations.
@@danielevans9379 Then I guess I am, I always thought prayer comes from the heart. You go ahead and pray out of a book and I and many others will do it the right way.
My husband died from cancer 2 years ago. Not only did he say he wanted to be cremated, but I could not have handled seeing him in a casket. Nor could I have afforded a regular funeral.
What about Lazarus? When Jesus said, “Lazarus come forth,” it didn’t matter what condition his body was in at that stage. He was dead 3 or4 days, and I doubt he was embalmed. But his body was breaking down. It didn’t matter because when Jesus told him to come forth, his whole body was restored! That’s the kind of God I serve!!
Their spirits would return to God, and they would still be perfectly resurrected with their physical appearance when the time comes for them to stand in judgement before Christ. Christ prophesied that He will call every deceased person out of their graves, and we shouldn't doubt His ability to do that since He is our Maker.
I have heard all kinds of talk regarding this matter. Some of it seems reasonable and much of it does not! My only concern at this point in my life and in my spiritual walk with the Lord Christ Yeshua/Jesus is knowing we SHALL RECEIVE a GLORIFIED body for ETERNITY😇 Blessings⚘️
My Grandfather's ashes were buried over 10 years ago and not more than 30 minutes after that moment, there was a brilliant strike of lightning with 3 prongs stretching down from the sky and I know from that sign, that my Grandfather was welcomed fully even though he was cremated!!
There’s an entire industry built around people who think anything but a burial is “sinful “. My brother in-law was a mortician. He’s young yet but is already retired. Trust me, there’s big money in it.
A good Christian friend of ours wanted to be buried but also wanted to be buried in his home town across the country. When he died his children couldn't afford to transport his body across the country so they cremated his body and then took his ashes to his home town. It made me realize that first off, don't make your family promise things they might not be able to fulfill. Secondly, we won't be here and your loved ones will have to make the best decision they can so let them decide.
What is the difference between cremation or dying at sea or in a fire or blown to molecules in an explosion. This is a question God has already answered. Great video.
Thank you brother for your explanation , and I agree 💯 , because in the times when Our Lord Jesus ascended to heaven , here in earth a lot of Christians Martyrs they were burned alive in the middle of the coliseums by the Romans , and just because didn't denied our Lord Jesus as their God and Savior ! In my opinion i think is more of a sin to commit Suicide than being Cremated ! Because I already told my adult son and 3 daughters that my wish is when I die is for my body to be Cremated , because is not to expensive like a formal funeral service ! Thank you for your time and dedication on doing your helpful teachings and comments , May the Lord Jesus bless you and your ministry ! MARANATHA .
It's true that our real concern needs to be with our immortal soul's destiny, and not with the mortal soul we used on earth. More people nowadays are opting for cremation, not by choice nor preference, but because of financial constraints. I used to be neutral on the matter, but the sight of bodies many years buried, floating up and out of their caskets in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, as well as other disasters worldwide, convinced me that it is better to obliterate all remaining physical semblance of my mortal being, after death.
The bottom line is that we don't have any say in what happens to our body when we are leave here. We can't even chose HOW we die. What about all the people who died in 911? Hiroshima? Did they get in trouble for not being "buried"? You can ask your family to bury you. Ultimately, you can't do nothing about it. Some people donate their whole body to medical schools, so doctors can get their training. I am thankful for that! The medical school does not bury cadavers. They are cremated.
Wow, I have been wondering about this. Thank you for covering this topic. The Bible speaks of graves, but I often wonder about our ancestors who were lost at sea.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” Besides, Jesus has our genetic blueprint. Luke 12:7 “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
It doesn’t matter either way,burial or cremation. It really isn’t worth any type of division over, what matters is if you’ve been born again or not because depending on your destination you will have a body fit for heaven or suitable for hell.
Nobody walking this planet has truly been born again. Rom. 1:4 clearly teaches that Christ is currently the only human being who has truly experienced that rebirth. Christ was very clear when He told Nicodemus that the ppl who experience this rebirth CANNOT naturally be seen by the human eye, and Paul emphasizes this in 1 Cor. 15 where he makes it even clearer when he plainly says that flesh and blood CANNOT inherit the Kingdom of God.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779Ephesians 1 would disagree with you and that’s just one of many scriptures. If you have been born again you are a new creation.
when we are dead our spirit leaves the body whether it was buried, cremated or however our " shells" are left on the earth. We are no longer "in " our bodies. Absent from the body present with the Lord
These scriptures may help us in our understanding, concerning the resulting ashes or dust of cremation. Ecc 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God" Ecc 3:20 "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again".
Matthew 3 : 9 - and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. God does not need our physical bodies to give us our " new " bodies.
What is the difference between cremation and natural burial? There is no body, just bones vs, just ashes. We waste too much time on trivial matter as such. There are somethings we just don't know and the Bible does not tell us.
Human skeletal remains that are centuries old have been dug up and used for scientific evaluation. How long does it take for skeletal remains to turn to dust?
It really depends on environmental factors. If a corpse was left in a place that was favorable for the decaying process, it wouldn't take very long for the corpse to revert back to dust.
It is written in 1 Samuel 31 that when the inhabitans of Jabes found the bodies of king Saul and his sons they returned the bodies and burned them and after that the buried the bones.
What about victims of a house fire, soldiers in a tank or killed by napalm, fire fighters caught in a fire. Where in the Bible does it say Christians should not be cremated? I have not read anything about cremation in the New Testament.
I’m glad that you addressed this. My husband chose cremation as his wish for what was to be done with his body, but I’ve kinda wondered if that’s something that is acceptable to God
There are many who were burnt at the stake for their faith, burnt to ashes. God doesn't need the old container , he just keeps the soul to place in a new container.
Absolutely none of this has any bearing on salvation. This it yet another form of works. God is not limited in His abilities. Satan will never stop trying to add works into the plan of salvation until the time he’s finally locked away for eternity.
As a Christian: First, I'd like to donate any remaining organ in my body that can still be used. I'm sure there's a backlog for whatever functioning organ they can harvest off of me. Second, I'd like to bypass the whole decomposition process and go directly to becoming ash. Third, I've actually read some Christians who feel the need to give a contrarian view where none is warranted, because as Christians they need to be "not conformed to this world" or whatever. They quote the elaborate burial rituals described in the Bible as a mandate against cremation, not realizing that the Bible was simply describing a prevailing custom without really endorsing it. Nothing wrong with burial at all - Jesus himself was buried in a grave. But when a Christian says that burial in the ground is the only biblical way to dispose of the dead and badmouths any other means of doing so, all I can think of is Jesus' views on a whitewashed tombs. He described it as being "full of dead men's bones and everything unclean" and used it as a metaphor for hypocrisy.
I didn’t fail to notice Cory paraphrased Alexander Campbell “Where the Bible speaks we speak, where the Bible is silent we are silent.” The issue with cremation that I have is what to do with the ashes. My wife’s remains are on her bookshelf. What will happen when I’m dead and strangers come and clear out all my possessions and throw them in a.dumpster?
Don't cemeteries have shelve units where ashes can be kept? I don't now the term for these but Ive been to a few cemeteries where cremated ashes are kept in private drawers, and you get a plaque like a mini tombstone.
Amen to you putting this thought together, as a Christian and Minister, i just believe of us getting a new Glorified body is just keys to what Gods has spoken to us. Even Jesus had a Glorified body after resurrecting.
Well I pray it's okay with the father because my husband died suddenly and I had no money so that's the only way I could take care of him. And I'm going to be in the same position. I have nobody that will help. I have no other way to deal with my body when I'm gone.
My father in love decided to be cremated so that his family wouldn’t see him as he was when he died and to be buried in the arms of my mother in love. Thankfully we were able to lay both to rest. Language is a beautiful thing when put in context and given the proper respect for the grammar. I’ve had this debate with my grandmother, God is able enough to put me back together in the air even if I get cremated. 😂 God told Isaiah to speak to the bones. God put the bones back together, gave them muscles and flesh, and the breath to relive to go to war only to die again. Therefore I let God speak for Himself. 😅
I’ve thought of this in recent years, my Mother purchased a spot for me and the rest of the family in a garden type cemetery that is only for cremated remains, I’ve felt quite uneasy for no real reason but uneasy I felt, until watching today. If you are in a terrible fire the outcome is cremation, being resurrected has no limitations regarding type of death, thank you.
Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” We’re going to be reduced to dust anyway. And besides, Jesus has our genetic blueprint. Luke 12:7 “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” I just use the Bible that God has used to save more souls than any other, the KJB. It’s already translated and has been the most printed book in history. That should say a lot in of itself.
The only thing I would add here is that the reasoning behind the choice might be of some importance. My mother have expressed that she would prefer cremation, but her reason for this was that she doesnt like the thought of bugs and worms crawling inside of her etc. Might be good to point out that this is a silly worry to have, since you will no longer be "inside" that decaying body any more, just as you will not be physically burning while the body is being cremated. Not a major issue, but a good thing to point out if this is the kind of reasoning behind the choice.
Cremation is usually associated with pagan religions and cultures. That's why in the past Christians were buried and not burned. In this day and age people can't afford to be buried, they have to choose the cheapest option. Jesus is Lord of all. As long as I go home to be with Him, what happens to my dead I have no control over. Jesus is King 🤴
It's more about respecting the persons last wishes than anything else. My wife wants to be buried but I personally don't care what happens to my body. I told her that financially just cremate me because it costs anywhere from 10 to 20k for a funeral but only a fraction of that for cremation.
My mother donated her body to a medical school upon her death. The school cremated her remains several years later. My brother and I paid no more than $1000 for her memorial service
Corey, IF you see this I would love to hear your take on Divorce, and Divorce & Remarrying. Preachers never like to touch this subject & I'm beginning to understand why.
I was always taught that as long as your husband is alive, you have to stay single. But someone showed me somewhere in Deuteronomy where you could be even if he is alive.
What's wrong with Cremation? There is nothing against cremation in scripture but as Christians we should want to follow the example of Christ in full immersion baptism and burial as disciples. The salvation of spirit and soul are more important than rituals or traditions of the body. Salvation is the most important. We will have a new incorruptible eternal body anyway.
We came from Dust we will return to dust. Does not mention HOW we return to dust, but we return to dust be it over 2000 years in the ground or 10 hours in a crematorium, does not matter. :P What does matter is the PROMISE that the LORD made to all of us believers that we will be rezzed into new bodies. :D
it’s hard for God to give us a glorified body if we’re dust? The spirit doesn’t live in the flesh. If my dust can be fertilizer for flowers to grow, At least it was useful for something because it’s sure wasn’t good enough to enter into the kingdom of God.
Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” King James Version
The Bible does not expressly outlaw cremation or command burial. You are also factually wrong when you claim that every instance shows burial. 1 Samuel ends with the men of Jabesh Gilead taking the corpses of Saul and his sons off the wall of Beth Shan and honoring them by cremating them before burying what was left. The only thing that the Bible really prohibits is using pagan rites that were customarily associated with cremating someone.
Jacob and Joseph were embalmed according to the Egyptian tradition. In Jesus’ day most people were not buried in the way we do today. There body was laid on a shelf, the flesh rotted away, then the bones were put in a box (called an ossuary). In Elijah’s day it appears they didn’t use the box (see 2 Kings 13:21). The point is that there is no one appropriate or biblical way to bury people.
What about believers who have unfortunately been murdered & their bodies cut up and not all the parts found? I don't mean to be morbid but that is something that occurred to me. I agree that God can restore their body to wholeness.
What about those who were burnt to a crisp, or lost at sea and eaten by the fishes or even lost in the wilderness that died. They aren’t buried. Is that a sin? Nope
This is why I only TRUST THE KING JAMES BIBLE. There is no confusion. Picking and choosing between Bible translations means there is no final authority except the one picking and choosing. There is no submission. People go back to the Greek even though they don't speak Greek, doesn't make sense.
We have scripture that tells us that at death the spirit leaves the body and returns to the Father. The scripture also tells us we were never meant to live eternally in a flesh body, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.” Once we are dead, the body returns to the dust/earth/elements is was taken from. How the body goes back to dust is not an issue God was concerned with, else He would have said so, especially in light of the scripture He already gave us concerning the flesh body. We have common sense that our Father gave us, He expects us to use it. We get very caught up in thinking in a flesh body instead of thinking in a spiritual way. We think using the wants, desires and needs of the flesh. This is what creates so much confusion and the many questions that are answered by scripture if we only think spiritually instead of in the flesh. Once we can begin to think in the spiritual sense, understanding is so much easier.
I absolutely have a problem with thought for thought translations, as should you. This is a minor problem doctrinally, but thought for thought translations can put people way off on major doctrinal issues
People forget that those who’ve been burned in house fires etc, will still be with Jesus if they’ve been saved before death. Thx for this video. My parents were both cremated & were saved before death. I look forward to seeing them again…with Jesus for eternity.
Thanks for the clarification. That makes so much sense. I'd always heard that there needs to be a body in the ground and that cremation is a sin and all that. It caused me a lot of distress because I've had friends killed in fires and always wondered what that meant for others killed on 9/11 or in plane crashes and such. I never saw anything in scripture about that but thought that maybe I was somehow missing it.
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Revelation 20:13
Actually, the Bible does have an instance of a cremation of sorts. After Saul was killed in battle, his body was burned, and his bones were buried. 1 Samuel 31:11-13 11 Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 13 Then they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
From dust we came and to dust we will return.
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So are you saying that cremation results in ashes and not dust?
Amen ❤
@@donnajaemoonashes are dusty 😂
Amen
Some of us, as Believers, can't afford to be buried. So cremation is another option. We're to be concerned more about the state of our souls more than what happens to our bodies. My humble opinion.
Yes, it’s all about not having the money for a funeral
The American system to bury someone is expensive and sometimes scams people. Thousands for a fancy coffin and headstone when people are emotional.
Why y'all so broke
@@TheologicalHandymanI hope you are saying that in jest.
@@TheologicalHandyman😂
We forget Adam was literally created from the dust of the earth, God is God nothing is to challenging for Him
Adam came from matter as did all life in the cosmos. Adam means life from matter. No god
During the early days of Christianity, some of the earliest Christians were martyred then burnt…
They will still be resurrected!! 🙏
Truth
Or eaten by beasts.
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Yes, just like Ignatius of Antioch 👍
@@user-bv4sj2gq7g That too.
Yes they were burnt, but it surely was not done as a show of love or respect. Actually, the opposite.
God is all powerful, and His ability extends beyond our finite mentality. If He can create a man from dust, He certainly can resurrect a person from ashes of cremation!
I used to work at a cemetery, for the price of a plot you could use for a down payment on a home . Embalming, headstone, location of burial property ( varies), funeral , casket, extra price for workers to lower the casket into the ground , your talking 10-20 grand, and that was in 2006 , and prices have even gone up, I say just cremate me and flush me down the toilet I’ll be with Jesus anyway ❤😂 😂
And ppl are dying to get into that plot
Before didn’t ppl just get buried behind a church?
Wow. So, this is what we get life insurance for. A lot of money wasted to just bury. I wonder when did burial become a business like so many other things.
My grandmother just passed away last Saturday, my parents couldn’t afford to bury her. It would’ve cost them $25,000. That is absolutely ridiculous, the cemetery, funeral homes, and coroners are going to have alot to answer for one day.
@catspjs6229 wow, how is that possible?
GOD has a new body for us
I think we all knew this before the discussion started.
This topic is all about money so we should stop being spiritual about the matter and just say I don't have the money.
@@ebed2250 Rudeness adds nothing beneficial to the discussion.
@PBreezy-ds5fn Well, at least you have a sense of humor 😄
@@ebed2250👁 FLOATERS
YOU'D BE SUPPRISE, SOME ARE KNEW BELIEVERS , AND DON'T KNOW.
God is all knowing. He certainly can find every ashen molecule🙏
Amen and he will for all those who were cremated and scattered our Great God will put them back together
🙏🏽AMEN,
The God who makes something out of nothing!
I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise..that's not the issue
@janelleg597 actually, that does seem to be *part* of the underlying issue of why some folks are adamantly against cremation.
God doesn't need to find ashen molecules to resurrect someone who has been cremated. All He requires is dust and the deceased person's spirit. which returns to Him when the person dies(Eccl. 12:7). The _spirit_ is what retains the information about their physical appearance at the time of death. That's why it doesn't ultimately matter where Moses was buried. If He wanted to, God could just as easily use the dirt in my backyard to resurrect him.
My understanding as believers is to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!!! It’s the soul (not the body itself) that goes to be with Lord Jesus). Thank you so much for the teaching brother Corey!!! It makes sense (at least to me). God bless you and yours🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽
I'm so glad you are addressing this subject. So many Christians believe that cremation is a sin and burial is the only Godly option. Many have gone into debt trying to pay for a funeral they couldn't afford. God will raise all believers from the dead with new bodies. He is God and how he does it is inconsequential to me.
I don't see how it's a sin. Biblically there is no commandment nor does it make any logical sense. Just bc you want to be buried, it does not mean your wishes will be honored.
God is good! I was just talking to my wife about burial because her mother just passed and got cremated. So I didn’t know how to go about being buried. I always thought it was a sin to be cremated but Corey, you just answered my question. Thank you and all glory go to God for showing me this. God is so good!!❤
@@pigjubby1 Before you die, (YOU) make that decision whether to be buried or cremated in (MOST)cases. Most people have their burial planned before their death. So yes, if you already planned your burial before death then it was (YOUR) choice. Which I always thought it was a sin to cremate. But Corey has cleared that up for me. God bless
Amen. I feel the same way as you, Corey. Your point about those who suffered amputation during their earthly lives is a very good one. My father, grandmother, and husband died with missing limbs. I’ve never, for once, imagined their amputations would be part of their glorified bodies. 😢
Amen!!!!!
I'm an amputee. I have a fancy that there is a big bin in heaven with "spare parts" I'll get my leg back, God Willing....
Thank you for this Bro C. My brother passed unexpectedly in January of this year. The entire process went smooth on his homegoing arrangements, but things got testy regarding burial or cremation. He was buried, but my mom kept saying that cremation was a sin. That never set well with me because I never heard of any scriptures that denounced it. My mom kept bringing up the scripture about dry bones, and she explained that God needs those bones to gather for the glorified body. Unfortunately, my mom is a Hebrew Israelite, and anytime I counter with her in the Word, it can get a bit ugly. So, in regards to my brother, I just let her have that one because the grief is too great. Again, thank you because I did have question marks.
My condolences to you, your mom and family 💐cremation is not a sin!!! God bless🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@vanessadobbins6885 thank you so much 🙏🏾
"If I'm going to be buried or cremated, make sure I'm actually dead" 😂😂😂 I laughed really hard when you said that thanks!
Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
More of a testimony when God puts my ashes back together
Only Our Souls Matter.
A living person IS a soul. Contrary to what pagan "Christianity" teaches, the soul is _not_ something that is inside a person. It is physical matter that can die, and _will_ eventually die. Gen. 2 says the dirt _became a living soul_ when God breathed life into it. Notice it doesn't say that God shoved a soul into the dirt.
The soul is eternal , it will not die.
The people who went down with the titanic bones dissolved in the sea water tooo
On the day of Judgement the sea will give her deaths. Revelation 20:13.
You don't know that
My spirit will go back to God!!!!❤😂🎉
My father was a Baptist pastor. And a Padre in a Canadian armoured unit in WWII. His experience in burying soldiers Kia was that there is simply no use for our bodies after death. I accept his teaching.
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”-nuff said. 🙂🙏
That's no where in the bible.
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The phrase is derived from the Bible. It is from the Christian book of common prayers funeral service. 🙏🙂
@@danielevans9379 If it's not directly from the bible, I dont put any stock in it. A prayer book, that sounds like a catholic thing to me.
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Well brother you are definitely in the minority. Christianity, both Catholics and Protestants have been relying on this prayer at funerals for generations.
@@danielevans9379 Then I guess I am, I always thought prayer comes from the heart. You go ahead and pray out of a book and I and many others will do it the right way.
My husband died from cancer 2 years ago. Not only did he say he wanted to be cremated, but I could not have handled seeing him in a casket. Nor could I have afforded a regular funeral.
One of the problems with us that believe is we are always wondering what is ok, and what isn't ok, instead of happily enjoying our lives.
Another question to ask, what about Christians who were burned at the stake? I agree with you. Stick with God’s Word.
Awesome Corey! What a fascinating topic! Thank you for the information you are sharing. I always wondered about this topic. Great job!!✝️🙏😊👍
What about Lazarus? When Jesus said, “Lazarus come forth,” it didn’t matter what condition his body was in at that stage. He was dead 3 or4 days, and I doubt he was embalmed. But his body was breaking down. It didn’t matter because when Jesus told him to come forth, his whole body was restored! That’s the kind of God I serve!!
So what happens to a person who dies in a house fire?
House fires cannot get hot enough to cremate a body. They usually only get hot enough to make the body unrecognizable
Very good question. What is the difference?
God is all knowing and all powerful!!
What about all the people that died in 9/11. God does not need our intellect on this subject. He already knows 😊
Their spirits would return to God, and they would still be perfectly resurrected with their physical appearance when the time comes for them to stand in judgement before Christ. Christ prophesied that He will call every deceased person out of their graves, and we shouldn't doubt His ability to do that since He is our Maker.
I have heard all kinds of talk regarding this matter. Some of it seems reasonable and much of it does not! My only concern at this point in my life and in my spiritual walk with the Lord Christ Yeshua/Jesus is knowing we SHALL RECEIVE a GLORIFIED body for ETERNITY😇 Blessings⚘️
Yes I get this question all the time at our funeral home.
My Grandfather's ashes were buried over 10 years ago and not more than 30 minutes after that moment, there was a brilliant strike of lightning with 3 prongs stretching down from the sky and I know from that sign, that my Grandfather was welcomed fully even though he was cremated!!
There’s an entire industry built around people who think anything but a burial is “sinful “. My brother in-law was a mortician. He’s young yet but is already retired. Trust me, there’s big money in it.
A good Christian friend of ours wanted to be buried but also wanted to be buried in his home town across the country. When he died his children couldn't afford to transport his body across the country so they cremated his body and then took his ashes to his home town. It made me realize that first off, don't make your family promise things they might not be able to fulfill. Secondly, we won't be here and your loved ones will have to make the best decision they can so let them decide.
What is the difference between cremation or dying at sea or in a fire or blown to molecules in an explosion. This is a question God has already answered. Great video.
Thank you brother for your explanation , and I agree 💯 , because in the times when Our Lord Jesus ascended to heaven , here in earth a lot of Christians Martyrs they were burned alive in the middle of the coliseums by the Romans , and just because didn't denied our Lord Jesus as their God and Savior ! In my opinion i think is more of a sin to commit Suicide than being Cremated ! Because I already told my adult son and 3 daughters that my wish is when I die is for my body to be Cremated , because is not to expensive like a formal funeral service ! Thank you for your time and dedication on doing your helpful teachings and comments , May the Lord Jesus bless you and your ministry ! MARANATHA .
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It's true that our real concern needs to be with our immortal soul's destiny, and not with the mortal soul we used on earth. More people nowadays are opting for cremation, not by choice nor preference, but because of financial constraints.
I used to be neutral on the matter, but the sight of bodies many years buried, floating up and out of their caskets in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, as well as other disasters worldwide, convinced me that it is better to obliterate all remaining physical semblance of my mortal being, after death.
The bottom line is that we don't have any say in what happens to our body when we are leave here. We can't even chose HOW we die. What about all the people who died in 911? Hiroshima? Did they get in trouble for not being "buried"? You can ask your family to bury you. Ultimately, you can't do nothing about it. Some people donate their whole body to medical schools, so doctors can get their training. I am thankful for that! The medical school does not bury cadavers. They are cremated.
Thanks for covering this topic.
It's a question I've had for a long time.
The way you explained it made sense to me
Short answer, No!
1 Corinthians 15 has a lot to say on the subject matter specifically starting at verse 12.
Wow, I have been wondering about this. Thank you for covering this topic. The Bible speaks of graves, but I often wonder about our ancestors who were lost at sea.
Lost at sea is the death chosen for them, burning your body is a whole different thing. I don’t believe it’s of God
You didn't have a choice.
I didn’t know this was an issue, but thank you for the clarification!
Doesn’t matter!!!! We all turn to dust when we go!!!!:/
Ecclesiastes 3:20 “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” Besides, Jesus has our genetic blueprint. Luke 12:7 “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
It doesn’t matter either way,burial or cremation. It really isn’t worth any type of division over, what matters is if you’ve been born again or not because depending on your destination you will have a body fit for heaven or suitable for hell.
Nobody walking this planet has truly been born again. Rom. 1:4 clearly teaches that Christ is currently the only human being who has truly experienced that rebirth. Christ was very clear when He told Nicodemus that the ppl who experience this rebirth CANNOT naturally be seen by the human eye, and Paul emphasizes this in 1 Cor. 15 where he makes it even clearer when he plainly says that flesh and blood CANNOT inherit the Kingdom of God.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779Ephesians 1 would disagree with you and that’s just one of many scriptures. If you have been born again you are a new creation.
Excellent video! The Lord showed me the very same things. It's comforting to know that He showed someone else the same.
when we are dead our spirit leaves the body whether it was buried, cremated or however our " shells" are left on the earth. We are no longer "in " our bodies. Absent from the body present with the Lord
These scriptures may help us in our understanding, concerning the resulting ashes or dust of cremation. Ecc 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God" Ecc 3:20 "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again".
Matthew 3 : 9 -
and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.
God does not need our physical bodies to give us our " new " bodies.
What is the difference between cremation and natural burial? There is no body, just bones vs, just ashes. We waste too much time on trivial matter as such. There are somethings we just don't know and the Bible does not tell us.
Bible says man is but dust in both Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Genesis 3:19. Moreover dust is dust no matter how it becomes dust.
The problem is what about poor people who die destitute. They cremate their bodies regardless even if you don't want them to.
Human skeletal remains that are centuries old have been dug up and used for scientific evaluation. How long does it take for skeletal remains to turn to dust?
It really depends on environmental factors. If a corpse was left in a place that was favorable for the decaying process, it wouldn't take very long for the corpse to revert back to dust.
It is written in 1 Samuel 31 that when the inhabitans of Jabes found the bodies of king Saul and his sons they returned the bodies and burned them and after that the buried the bones.
What about victims of a house fire, soldiers in a tank or killed by napalm, fire fighters caught in a fire. Where in the Bible does it say Christians should not be cremated? I have not read anything about cremation in the New Testament.
What about the people that died on 9/11 and were never recovered?, they were incinerated.
I lost my two oldest children within two months, and we had to have them cremated.
Wow so sorry to hear that. Gosh that touched me
I am so sorry for your loss.
I’m so sorry two kids in Such a short time
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I’m so sorry for your loss ❤️
I’m glad that you addressed this. My husband chose cremation as his wish for what was to be done with his body, but I’ve kinda wondered if that’s something that is acceptable to God
There are many who were burnt at the stake for their faith, burnt to ashes. God doesn't need the old container , he just keeps the soul to place in a new container.
Absolutely none of this has any bearing on salvation. This it yet another form of works. God is not limited in His abilities. Satan will never stop trying to add works into the plan of salvation until the time he’s finally locked away for eternity.
As a Christian:
First, I'd like to donate any remaining organ in my body that can still be used. I'm sure there's a backlog for whatever functioning organ they can harvest off of me.
Second, I'd like to bypass the whole decomposition process and go directly to becoming ash.
Third, I've actually read some Christians who feel the need to give a contrarian view where none is warranted, because as Christians they need to be "not conformed to this world" or whatever. They quote the elaborate burial rituals described in the Bible as a mandate against cremation, not realizing that the Bible was simply describing a prevailing custom without really endorsing it.
Nothing wrong with burial at all - Jesus himself was buried in a grave. But when a Christian says that burial in the ground is the only biblical way to dispose of the dead and badmouths any other means of doing so, all I can think of is Jesus' views on a whitewashed tombs. He described it as being "full of dead men's bones and everything unclean" and used it as a metaphor for hypocrisy.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1Cor 13:3
I didn’t fail to notice Cory paraphrased Alexander Campbell “Where the Bible speaks we speak, where the Bible is silent we are silent.” The issue with cremation that I have is what to do with the ashes. My wife’s remains are on her bookshelf. What will happen when I’m dead and strangers come and clear out all my possessions and throw them in a.dumpster?
Don't cemeteries have shelve units where ashes can be kept? I don't now the term for these but Ive been to a few cemeteries where cremated ashes are kept in private drawers, and you get a plaque like a mini tombstone.
Amen to you putting this thought together, as a Christian and Minister, i just believe of us getting a new Glorified body is just keys to what Gods has spoken to us. Even Jesus had a Glorified body after resurrecting.
Well I pray it's okay with the father because my husband died suddenly and I had no money so that's the only way I could take care of him. And I'm going to be in the same position. I have nobody that will help. I have no other way to deal with my body when I'm gone.
Are the bodies of people who died in history, before modern burial, still in one piece? How many people have died in ways there are no bodies left?
My father in love decided to be cremated so that his family wouldn’t see him as he was when he died and to be buried in the arms of my mother in love. Thankfully we were able to lay both to rest.
Language is a beautiful thing when put in context and given the proper respect for the grammar.
I’ve had this debate with my grandmother, God is able enough to put me back together in the air even if I get cremated. 😂
God told Isaiah to speak to the bones. God put the bones back together, gave them muscles and flesh, and the breath to relive to go to war only to die again. Therefore I let God speak for Himself. 😅
I’ve thought of this in recent years, my Mother purchased a spot for me and the rest of the family in a garden type cemetery that is only for cremated remains, I’ve felt quite uneasy for no real reason but uneasy I felt, until watching today. If you are in a terrible fire the outcome is cremation, being resurrected has no limitations regarding type of death, thank you.
Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” We’re going to be reduced to dust anyway. And besides, Jesus has our genetic blueprint. Luke 12:7 “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
I just use the Bible that God has used to save more souls than any other, the KJB. It’s already translated and has been the most printed book in history. That should say a lot in of itself.
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The only thing I would add here is that the reasoning behind the choice might be of some importance. My mother have expressed that she would prefer cremation, but her reason for this was that she doesnt like the thought of bugs and worms crawling inside of her etc. Might be good to point out that this is a silly worry to have, since you will no longer be "inside" that decaying body any more, just as you will not be physically burning while the body is being cremated. Not a major issue, but a good thing to point out if this is the kind of reasoning behind the choice.
My grandmother said the same thing. So she was cremated.
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QUESTION IS... WHERE IN THE BIBLE DID THEY CREMATE THEIR LOVED ONES?
TO EACH HIS OWN... TMH IS THE JUDGE.
Cremation is usually associated with pagan religions and cultures. That's why in the past Christians were buried and not burned. In this day and age people can't afford to be buried, they have to choose the cheapest option. Jesus is Lord of all. As long as I go home to be with Him, what happens to my dead I have no control over. Jesus is King 🤴
How about the example we see from the scriptures?
It's more about respecting the persons last wishes than anything else. My wife wants to be buried but I personally don't care what happens to my body. I told her that financially just cremate me because it costs anywhere from 10 to 20k for a funeral but only a fraction of that for cremation.
My mother donated her body to a medical school upon her death. The school cremated her remains several years later. My brother and I paid no more than $1000 for her memorial service
Corey, IF you see this I would love to hear your take on Divorce, and Divorce & Remarrying. Preachers never like to touch this subject & I'm beginning to understand why.
Mike Winger did an Indepth teaching on this.
@@WendieRenee is he on UA-cam?
@@CookieWoods.yes. He’s a great teacher. I found this channel through his channel.
I was always taught that as long as your husband is alive, you have to stay single. But someone showed me somewhere in Deuteronomy where you could be even if he is alive.
@@Waterlily1998 ok. Thank you all for the information. I’m going to find him.
What's wrong with Cremation?
There is nothing against cremation in scripture but as Christians we should want to follow the example of Christ in full immersion baptism and burial as disciples. The salvation of spirit and soul are more important than rituals or traditions of the body. Salvation is the most important. We will have a new incorruptible eternal body anyway.
We came from Dust we will return to dust.
Does not mention HOW we return to dust, but we return to dust be it over 2000 years in the ground or 10 hours in a crematorium, does not matter. :P
What does matter is the PROMISE that the LORD made to all of us believers that we will be rezzed into new bodies. :D
it’s hard for God to give us a glorified body if we’re dust? The spirit doesn’t live in the flesh.
If my dust can be fertilizer for flowers to grow, At least it was useful for something because it’s sure wasn’t good enough to enter into the kingdom of God.
"Make sure I'm actually dead." LOL! Very true.
Genesis 3:19
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
King James Version
The scriptures teaches to be buried, every instance people were buried and not burned
Because that was the Jewish custom…
Deut 34:5,6. God buried Moses.
@@stevenbrown2012 I want to see a verse that says "thou shalt not be cremated".
The Bible does not expressly outlaw cremation or command burial. You are also factually wrong when you claim that every instance shows burial. 1 Samuel ends with the men of Jabesh Gilead taking the corpses of Saul and his sons off the wall of Beth Shan and honoring them by cremating them before burying what was left. The only thing that the Bible really prohibits is using pagan rites that were customarily associated with cremating someone.
In the Bible, when people passed - they weren’t buried in coffins. Ijs, ashes to ashes -dust to dust.
Good day brothers and sisters in Christ. Does anyone know the Bible software bring used in this video?
You did a great job of explaining that subject
I’ve been thinking about this. Praise YAH!
Jacob and Joseph were embalmed according to the Egyptian tradition. In Jesus’ day most people were not buried in the way we do today. There body was laid on a shelf, the flesh rotted away, then the bones were put in a box (called an ossuary). In Elijah’s day it appears they didn’t use the box (see 2 Kings 13:21). The point is that there is no one appropriate or biblical way to bury people.
What about believers who have unfortunately been murdered & their bodies cut up and not all the parts found? I don't mean to be morbid but that is something that occurred to me. I agree that God can restore their body to wholeness.
What about those who were burnt to a crisp, or lost at sea and eaten by the fishes or even lost in the wilderness that died. They aren’t buried. Is that a sin? Nope
KJV - 1 Corinthians 15 : 45 "The First Man ADAM was MADE a Living SOUL;
The Last ADAM was MADE a Quickening SPIRIT.”
This is why I only TRUST THE KING JAMES BIBLE. There is no confusion. Picking and choosing between Bible translations means there is no final authority except the one picking and choosing. There is no submission.
People go back to the Greek even though they don't speak Greek, doesn't make sense.
Amen. I'm glad to hear sound judgment being used, God bless you
Excellent, Corey! Agree on all points.🙏
We have scripture that tells us that at death the spirit leaves the body and returns to the Father. The scripture also tells us we were never meant to live eternally in a flesh body, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.” Once we are dead, the body returns to the dust/earth/elements is was taken from. How the body goes back to dust is not an issue God was concerned with, else He would have said so, especially in light of the scripture He already gave us concerning the flesh body. We have common sense that our Father gave us, He expects us to use it. We get very caught up in thinking in a flesh body instead of thinking in a spiritual way. We think using the wants, desires and needs of the flesh. This is what creates so much confusion and the many questions that are answered by scripture if we only think spiritually instead of in the flesh. Once we can begin to think in the spiritual sense, understanding is so much easier.
I absolutely have a problem with thought for thought translations, as should you. This is a minor problem doctrinally, but thought for thought translations can put people way off on major doctrinal issues
People forget that those who’ve been burned in house fires etc, will still be with Jesus if they’ve been saved before death. Thx for this video. My parents were both cremated & were saved before death. I look forward to seeing them again…with Jesus for eternity.
Nothing is impossible with God.
Oh but some preachers teach that upon death a person either goes to heaven or hell, now here you are talking about resurrection, so which is it?
Thanks for the clarification. That makes so much sense. I'd always heard that there needs to be a body in the ground and that cremation is a sin and all that. It caused me a lot of distress because I've had friends killed in fires and always wondered what that meant for others killed on 9/11 or in plane crashes and such. I never saw anything in scripture about that but thought that maybe I was somehow missing it.
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Revelation 20:13
Actually, the Bible does have an instance of a cremation of sorts. After Saul was killed in battle, his body was burned, and his bones were buried.
1 Samuel 31:11-13
11 Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
13 Then they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
It was Ezekiel that God told to speak to the bones in Ezekiel 37