HOLD IT!!! I'VE FOUND IT!!!

Exodus twenty, verce um-teen: I read! "...Thou shall NOT...", and I repeat, "...thou shall NOT cremate the dead!" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

There are many examples in Bible where God's will commanded to bury (specific) dead. But we cannot take individual instences and make doctrine out of them. It was God's specific will that the church of Acts spoke in different toungs... does it mean therefore, that God's will commands that we all should speak in toungs? We can implicitly derive doctrine from another explicit doctrine (such as The Trinity being derived from another doctrines which teach that there is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) but we cannot derive doctrine from that which is not doctrine.

Personaly, I would rather have my body cremated and scattered to the winds... Where I come from there is this sick tradition to visit the graves of the "love ones" (as if these love ones really care at the moment that you are standing there and talking to "them"). I dont want people to occupy their brains with even a slight corrolation that "I'm" burried someplace. WHEN I DIE THAT CARCASE IS NOT ME ANYMORE! AT THAT TIME I'M PARTYING UP IN HEAVEN! SO STOP INSULTING ME BY TALKING TO THAT CARCASE AS IF THAT WAS ME! ...sorry had to take that off my soul... hope i make my point.