Cremation - it is un-Biblical?

Even if you get buried all that will be left of you are bones. Do you really believe that God will come to earth and ask your bones to rise out of your burial plot and say 'come here bones, I have a new body for ya'?

What makes more sense you are your soul or you are a pile of bones? At the time of death your soul leaves the body (which no longer contains life and is just an empty shell) and you go into the spirit world. So in that regards it doesn't matter if you choose burial or cremation. But you will be doing the enviroment a huge favour by not getting burried.

The Bible does not say anything about cremation. (Ecc. 3:20 and 12:7) The body will return to the earth from whence it came and the spirit will return to God who gave it. At the resurrection we will all be given a new body (1 Cor. 15). So it wont matter whether one is burn accidentally, as in a house fire, or intentionally, as with cremation

Let's see.....I think Christianity and Judaism in general disapproves cremation but I don't think there's actually anything in the Bible exclusively "forbidding" it.

The only exceptions to the rules would be the Eastern Orthodox Christians and the Orthodox Jews because it basically means rejecting the idea of Resurrection.

Islam forbids cremation though I can't remember why at the moment.....

Cremation is the only hygienic way to discard the physical shell.When we bury our dead then all of the diseases from them seep into the Eco system and this is what has been the case for untold thousands of years.Cremation will one day become a law in society for a very good reason as it is the cleanest way to handle these human shells.

You won't find a "thou shalt not" but I do think it might be wrong. I say that because in revelation it talks how the ones that are already dead will be raised up with Christ. Meaning those that are in heaven will have there bodies lifted up out of the ground and meet with there souls in the air. I could be wrong I am not 100% sure but I do believe that is what it says. As for Eccl. having a new body means without sin, it doesn't mean were gonna look different. Because in the bible, don't remember the scripture, but it talks how we will know our loved ones and like the disciples. So how could we have a new body, but yet know what someone looks like?

It is not stated in the bible that cremation is not acceptable.

It is only because other christian denomination think it is a pagan practice that is why it is not acceptable.

The Roman Catholic Church accept cremation.

For health purposes, bodies that carry a very dangerous desease or virus should be cremated inorder to stop its spreading.

Cremation has continually been considered a pagan practice. (it really is what made the crematoriums at Dauchau and Auschwitz this style of slap-in-the face to the jewish victims) different semetic religions had similar burial practices (which comprise Zoroastrianism,in which it change into believed that burning a useless body defiled the fireplace.) human beings were cremating their useless for thousands of years,yet those human beings weren't jewish.

Of course not, God himself cremated quite a few people in the Bible.

No. I am a believer, and both my wife and myself decided we would be cremated. It was basically an economic decision. I can't see sinking several thousands of dollars into a box and a plot. I would prefer to have my wife be able to spend that money on herself, rather than bury it.

If you cremate yourself Jesus can't come back and raise you from the dead so you can help him attack "the bad people and the bad spirits." C'mon, what's He gonna do with an urn of ashes? lol.