{"id":36254,"date":"2022-09-13T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/who-in-the-bible-has-been-cremated-united-states\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:48:02","slug":"who-in-the-bible-has-been-cremated-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/who-in-the-bible-has-been-cremated-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Who in the Bible has been cremated? (United States)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jews did not practice cremation<\/strong>. Recorded instances of cremation<\/strong> were live, infant sacrifices<\/strong> offered to idols. These practices were abominations. Jeremiah 32:35, "..high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech<\/strong>; which I commanded them not<\/strong>, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination<\/strong>…",<\/p>\n

There are no specific scriptures<\/strong> that forbid cremation of dead bodies<\/strong>. The Jews and countless other cultures have historically buried their dead in a tomb<\/strong>.  Ancient heroes like Sarah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and David were all buried according to that tradition.  So also, Jesus was laid in a tomb<\/strong>, according to Jewish law. They carefully followed proscribed anointing and burial practices because they hoped for a resurrection from the dead. <\/p>\n

Matthew 5:21-22 refers to how the Sanhedrin supervised criminal trials and could impose the death sentence.  Some of those found guilty were subjected to further indignity after death<\/strong> – being refused burial and cast into the fire of “Gehenna”<\/strong>.  The valley of Gehenna (or Hinnom) was just outside the city of Jerusalem and served as the sewer and garbage burner<\/strong> for the city. Fires were continually burning and brimstone was added for combustion and complete destruction. Living <\/em>things were NOT<\/em> to be cast into the fire.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The ancient Greeks, Romans, Jains, and Hindus commonly practiced cremation.  Christianity rejected cremation as a pagan ritual associated with human sacrifice by fire. In parts of Europe, cremation was forbidden by law.  Alternatively, it was used by Christian authorities as a punishment for heretics<\/strong>.  For example, John Wycliffe's body was exhumed years after his death and then cremated. His ashes were thrown in a river. The Roman Catholic clergy cremated him as a posthumous punishment<\/strong> for his denial of Roman Catholic doctrine.  <\/p>\n

Mass cremations have historically been performed out of fear of contagious diseases during times of battle, pestilence, or famine.<\/p>\n

How a person’s human remains are managed is a personal choice<\/strong>. Ecclesiastes 9:5 teaches, “…the dead know nothing<\/strong>.” After Adam and Eve sinned, God declared, “You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground,<\/strong> since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust<\/strong>.” Genesis 3:19. After death, the body decays whether it is placed in a tomb, buried under earth, burned, lost at sea, eaten by a wild animal, etc. The end result is the same.<\/p>\n

Just as the penalty for original sin is certain death, a resurrection for all is also a certainty. Jesus promised in John 5:28-29, “the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves<\/strong> shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.” It doesn’t matter where or how a person’s remains were managed. All will be resurrected<\/strong> in Christ’s kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jews did not practice cremation. Recorded instances of cremation were live, infant sacrifices offered to idols. These practices were abominations. Jeremiah 32:35, "..high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, … Continue reading “Who in the Bible has been cremated? (United States)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}