Hello Jean. Thank you for reading the article and thanks for your comments and questions. Let me begin by saying that I agree with you 100% when you say that you would never use the fact that God doesn’t offer a specific condemnation of something, as your ONLY reason for doing or not doing that certain thing. There is always much more that should shape our decisions besides that one fact. There are somethings that we must conclude are not acceptable to God, even though He has not specifically condemned them. One example of that has to do with the “ingredients” of the Lord’s supper. Since God has specified that we use unleavened bread and fruit of the vine, that fact alone tells us that no other food or drink items are acceptable. There shouldn’t be any question in anyone’s mind about that. When God specifies one particular thing, then that’s all that’s acceptable. But when there’s some action which must be done, such as the proper handling of the body of one who has died, and God has not specified exactly how that should be done, then we must use our own judgment, based upon the principles that God has revealed to us concerning our conduct and attitudes, and also upon the basic truths God has revealed to us. However, given all that God has revealed to us, and after taking all of that into consideration, some of us will still come to different conclusions pertaining to cremation. But just because we may have a different viewpoint that someone else, that doesn’t give us the right to try to legislate our view on some other person, because that would not be acceptable to God.

As for me and my wife, while we do not have anything in writing at this point, we have talked about simple cremation, and I believe that our son would be of the same mind. We personally see nothing at all with cremation, knowing that by God’s own design, the body will return to the earth from where it came, and therefore I believe that cremation is certainly not contrary to God’s design.

Hi Andy. I thank you for your comment. And I think you may be right on target there, with the thought of the burning being a purification process. It would be interesting to delve into those practices from a secular source to see what is known. Many times we wonder about things that the bible doesn’t give us any information about. No doubt that information is not needed for our faith to be strong, but it is interesting nonetheless. Again, thank you for your insightful comments.