Galaxies and Cremation

"Sometimes the “culture wars” that really matter aren’t the ones you’re screaming about with unbelievers in the public square; they’re the ones in which you’ve already surrendered, and never even noticed."

Russell Moore, Professor at SBTS, posted the above in an interesting article concerning cremation for Christians. He is opposed to it. I'm not, and intend to be cremated when the Lord takes me home.



My decision is a common sense decision made for practical reasons.They are, in no particular order: 1) Why should my widow or children, who are not rich, spend thousands to enrich people they don't know for unbiblical reasons. That's right unbiblical. My bible says that when I die, I will be absent from the body and with the Lord. 3) My body was made from dust and to dust it returns, according to scripture, it is not me. Moreover, scripture says nothing against expediting this process. 4) I happen to believe that the Potter who made me is not concerned with the clay since He has promised a new kind of body in the end. Do Christians actually think a Holy God would take a smelly, rotted, refurbished, dead thing into Heaven? He made a point of giving Jesus a brand new body in front of eye witnesses, shouldn't that be taken as a hint that the cancerous, diseased bodies we are saddled with now are of no eternal use?

My belief in this regard boils down to an absolute belief in the Sovereign power of God. Colossians  1:17 suggests the very structure of the Universe is in His control at all times. For me to assume that we humans should spend thousands of dollars attempting to preserve something - in this case a rotting corpse returning to dust - for no apparent Biblical reason is beyond my comprehension. As a matter of fact, our apparent obsession with "death" seems to me nothing but a modern pagan cult-like desire to attempt to override God's plan that our bodies should decompose. Where in the Bible does it say we should follow the Ancient Egyptian practice of embalming? I can't find it.

When Christ returns for His own, I believe He is quite capable of manufacturing the necessary components to insure that I will be capable of  "meeting Him in the air." You see, I actually trust Him enough to do that; after all, He made Markarian 348 didn't He.

***Informational note: (Largest galaxy)   Markarian 348 is a galaxy estimated to be 1.3 million light years in diameter. Our Milky way is 100,000 light years in diameter. The God who made both can certainly deal with my ashes. My argument is not made to tempt Him, its just made to show that at least one person in His Universe actually believes what He says about Himself and His power. If He wants me in heaven He will see to it that I am there. Informational note #2: One light year equals roughly 6 trillion miles.