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What does the Bible say about cremation?
Burial is the usual practice in Scripture, but no command forbids cremation, and resurrection does not depend on what happens to the body.
What Scripture says
1 Corinthians 15:42-44
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.”
Genesis 3:19
“You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.””
Ecclesiastes 12:7
“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
2 Corinthians 5:8
“We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.”
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