Death is not something one wants to think about but did you ever wonder how our Creator feels about Cremation and Embalming? Numbers 5: 2 Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. Leviticus 21: 11 He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, Unclean meant the disease they died of, or their decay dust might have gotten onto someones clothes or into their nostrils/bodies, which meant they were infected and could infect others. In those days they had mostly tombs and didnt necessarily bury the dead in the ground. So, entering a place where a body was decaying meant they could breathe in the decay and risk death themselves. Deuteronomy 14: 1 The LORD told Moses and Aaron 2 to say to the community of Israel: You may eat 3 any animal that has divided hoofs and chews the cud. 4-8 But you must not eat animals such as camels, rock badgers, and rabbits that chew the cud but dont have divided hoofs. And you must not eat pigs--they have divided hoofs, but dont chew the cud. All of these animals are unclean, and you are forbidden even to touch their dead bodies. 9-12 You may eat anything that lives in water and has fins and scales. But it would be disgusting for you to eat anything else that lives in water, and you must not even touch their dead bodies. 24-28 Dont even touch the dead bodies of animals that have divided hoofs but dont chew the cud. And dont touch the dead bodies of animals that have paws. If you do, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening. 39 If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening. 40 If you eat any of its meat or carry its body away, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening. While one’s grief is understandable, it would be best not to keep the ashes at home, much less wearing them on a person such as a bracelet or necklace or such. The reason is: From dust we came and to dust we are to return (Gen. 2:6-8, Gen. 3:19). In the U.S. we embalm people and bury their caskets inside metal or cement boxes, so theres no way for them to actually decay - which totally goes against Scripture. Not the embalming or the burying but it is wrong to use metal or cement boxes. And if we cremate, the least we can do is to empty the ashes so they can go back to the ground. The thing is, we are commanded to NOT do what the pagans do/did. Cremation is one of the pagan rituals, and, we are told in proverbs, ashes to ashes, dust to dust and that man came from dust, so to dust shall he return. That is why, to this day, Jews do not embalm their dead; they place them in plain wooden caskets with no metal in order to allow the body to decay as quickly as possible. Even though Jewish tradition has developed a taboo against cremation, there is no explicit source in the Bible against it - and there are no explicit sources FOR it, either. Reference is made in I Samuel 31:12-13 to the burning of the bodies of King Saul and his sons and subsequent burial of the bones, but this does not mean it is to be a regular practice. The practice of the ancient patriarchs was burial, such as shown by Jacob being buried with his ancestors in a cave that Abraham had bought (Genesis 49:29-33). Yeshuas body was interred in a tomb after His crucifixion (Luke 23:52-56; John 19:38-42). Allowing a body to decay and return to dust in no way detracts from our souls entering heaven.... The only recorded Egyptian culture burial of a Hebrew is in Genesis 50. The reason being that, the bones of Joseph were to be carried back to the land of promise and buried with his ancestors when YHWH visits the people of Israel to rescue them from bondage. Genesis 50:26 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. The coffin typical of Egyptians was for preservation of their Kings and not for burial. History has proved this point. We are not to use coffin/casket for burial. The copse is to be wrapped in a clean and white linen and buried. So the issue of cremation being more ECONOMIC does not arise. Whatever cemented/ brick cemetery costs you incur are self imposed. They are not YHWHs instructions. ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST, AND EARTH TO EARTH It is not YHWHs words or instructions. Neither are these words in the Bible. The origin of these came from English/Anglican burial service. The text of that service is adapted from Genesis 3:19 (King James Version): 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. There is no ashes. And those believing in Reincarnation. YHWH is the CREATOR of everything. HE is not in a recycling business. He told us to go and multiply.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:06:54 +0000
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