{"id":90633,"date":"2021-03-10T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/luke-9v60-cremation\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:07:31","slug":"luke-9v60-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/luke-9v60-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke 9v60 Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Luke 9:60 &#8211; Jesus said unto\nhim, \u2018Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Bible clearly teaches\nabout life and death \u2013 both physical and spiritual.&nbsp; Every critical aspect related to our lives is\naddressed in Scripture as affirmed in 2 Timothy 3:16 (\u201cAll scripture is given\nby inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for\ncorrection, for instruction in righteousness\u2026\u201d) and in Psalms 32:8 (\u201cI will\ninstruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and\nwatch over you.\u201d)&nbsp; Specifically as to our\ndeath, what is the appropriate burial of a loved one?&nbsp; Should it always be a traditional\nburial?&nbsp; Is cremation an option?&nbsp; To determine the Biblical answer, we look to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Historical Context:&nbsp;\nThe gospel of Luke, written between 58 and 65 A.D., does not identify\nits author. From Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1-3, it is clear that the same author\nwrote both Luke and Acts, addressing both to \u201cmost excellent Theophilus,\u201d\npossibly a Roman dignitary. The tradition from the earliest days of the church\nhas been that Luke, a physician and a close companion of the Apostle Paul,\nwrote both Luke and Acts (Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11). This would make\nLuke the only Gentile to pen any books of Scripture.&nbsp; This book\u2019s purpose is to reveal the Lord\nJesus Christ and all He \u201cbegan to do and to teach until the day he was taken up\nto heaven\u201d (Acts 1:1-2). Luke\u2019s gospel is unique in that is a meticulous\nhistory\u2014an \u201corderly account\u201d (Luke 1:3) consistent with Luke\u2019s medical\nmind\u2014often giving details the other accounts omit. Luke\u2019s history of the life\nof the Great Physician emphasizes His ministry to\u2014and compassion for\u2014Gentiles,\nSamaritans, women, children, tax collectors, sinners, and others regarded as\noutcasts in Israel.&nbsp; Called the most\nbeautiful book ever written, Luke begins by telling us about Jesus&#8217; parents;\nthe birth of His cousin, John the Baptist; Mary and Joseph&#8217;s journey to\nBethlehem, where Jesus is born in a manger; and the genealogy of Christ through\nMary. Jesus&#8217; public ministry reveals His perfect compassion and forgiveness\nthrough the stories of the prodigal son, the rich man and Lazarus, and the Good\nSamaritan. While many believe in this unprejudiced love that surpasses all\nhuman limits, many others\u2014especially the religious leaders\u2014challenge and oppose\nthe claims of Jesus. Christ&#8217;s followers are encouraged to count the cost of\ndiscipleship, while His enemies seek His death on the cross. Finally, Jesus is\nbetrayed, tried, sentenced and crucified. But His Resurrection assures the\ncontinuation of His ministry of seeking and saving the lost.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Grammatical Usage: \u201cDead\u201d in the Greek is \u201cnekros\u201d\nused 133 times in the New Testament meaning \u201cdead\u201d or \u201ca dead body.\u201d&nbsp; The implication is the idea that the \u201cperson\u201d\nis now separate from the body which is but mere matter.&nbsp; The spirit and soul which made the corpse a\nperson and animated the body was gone.&nbsp;\nIn short, the dead had reached their final state or destiny.&nbsp; \u201cBury\u201d in the Greek is \u201cthapto\u201d referring to\nthe act of entombing a physical body and to honor bestowed with funereal rites.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Literal Application: \u201cBut He said to him, \u2018Let the\nspiritually dead entomb those physically dead, but you go away and proclaim the\nkingdom of God.\u2019\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Contextual Interpretation: The fact that Jesus gave\nlittle direct attention to something does not mean it is without importance.\nJesus gave little attention to spousal abuse and less to abortion, yet surely\nthis does not indicate His approval of these practices. Jesus, however, did\ngive great attention to the authority and inspiration of Scriptures (Matthew\n5:17-18; 22:29; John 10:35) which clearly express the common practice and\nimportance of burial.&nbsp; Furthermore Jesus\nattacked many Jewish traditions, but burial of the dead was not one of them. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When\nJesus said, \u201cLet the dead bury their own dead\u201d (Luke 9:60), it was in response\nto an excuse a man gave Him when he desired to bury his father before following\nJesus. The saying is a play on words in which Jesus identified the spiritually\ndead as those who do not follow Him. In effect, Jesus was saying, \u201cLet the spiritually dead bury their own [physical] dead.\u201d  The passage has nothing to do with approval of cremation or condemnation of burial. Rather, the passage, if it suggests anything about corpse disposal, gives acknowledgment to entombment as the common practice that was so ingrained in Jewish society that reference to it was very common. What is noteworthy is that Jesus never said, \u201cLet the dead cremate their own dead,\u201d but rather, \u201clet the dead bury their own dead.\u201d  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Scriptural Comparison: Cremation was a common practice\namong many ancient, non-believing nations. The Greeks are an example of a\npeople who only cremated their dead. In New Testament times, the Roman practice\nof cremation was almost universal.&nbsp; In\nstark contrast, the Jews rarely cremated.&nbsp;\nIn fact, the emphasis was often upon the proper care and guardianship of\na loved one\u2019s or more normally the family tomb which held the remains of\ngenerations past.&nbsp; In more modern times,\nthe Vikings cremated their leaders as an act of launching them into the next world.&nbsp; In such cases where a specific Biblical\ninstruction is lacking, the appropriate response of the student is to determine\nthe weight of Scripture in favor of multiple options.&nbsp; To this end, the following are primary\nconsiderations:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Old\nTestament Practice.&nbsp; The Hebrew word\n\u201cqabar\u201d which means to bury is throughout the OT.&nbsp; Inhumation or the placing in caves or\nrock-sepulchers was universal Jewish practice of all time periods.&nbsp; Tombs were the communal possession of a\nfamily (Gen. 23:4).&nbsp; The cremation of\nSaul and his sons (1 Sam. 31:12) was exceptional, and such treatment may be\nregarded as a shameful abuse (Amos 2:1) or as a solemn punishment (Jos.\n7:25).&nbsp; The law required burial of the\nexecuted criminal the same day (Deut. 21:23), and the same care was taken to\nbury enemies slain in battle (1 Kings 11:15).&nbsp;\nThe Jews did this, even for enemies, because to be denied burial was a\nshameful indignity (Dt. 28:26; 1 Kings 13:22).&nbsp;\nClearly cremation \u2013 certainly widely practiced \u2013 was not considered\nright but improper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fire\nand Actions of God. While fire in some cases may be seen as good or serve as a\nsymbol for the divine presence, it is wrong to apply this to cremation. Fire\nwas most often associated with warning and judgment (Lev. 10:1-2) \u2014 including\neternal judgment (Matthew 25:4, etc.).&nbsp;\nTo connect the burning of a human body with fire would more than likely\nbring images of human sacrifices (Lev. 18:21), criminal punishment (Lev. 20:14;\n21:9), and hell fire itself in relation to a final judgment. Therefore, the\nsymbol of fire at best has a dual application and, when weighed, cannot be used\nto arguably support cremation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jesus\u2019\nView. Scripture itself underscores that Jesus would be buried, but rise\nagain.&nbsp; Matthew 23:27 is likewise not a\nnegative reference to burial. Rather, it is a negative reference to the scribes\nand Pharisees. It was they who appeared beautiful on the outside but who, like\ndead men in tombs, were unclean on the inside. The fact that the tombs of\nburial were so common to the people makes possible Jesus\u2019 point concerning the\nreligious leaders \u2013 it was based upon their actions or inaction that the fires\nof hell were reserved for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The\nfact that Jesus\u2019 body had not been cremated was critical resurrection evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">New\nTestament Practice.&nbsp; The duty of burial\nfell upon the family or closest associates of the deceased (Mt. 8:21-22; Lk.\n9:59-60; Mt. 14:12; Mk. 6:29).&nbsp; It was\ncarried out with the utmost possible speed (Acts 5:5-6).&nbsp; It was deemed a good work to make special\nprovision for the burial of strangers.&nbsp;\nIn Revelation 11:9 the two witnesses are subjected by their enemies to\nthe final indignity of lying dead and unburied for three and a half days.&nbsp; The fullest accounts of funeral practice are\ncontained in the narratives of Lazarus (John 11) and of Jesus Himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Paul\u2019s\nTheology. The opinion that Paul devalued dead bodies is totally without\nwarrant. First, Paul never taught a dead body should be despised or destroyed.\nTherefore, Paul\u2019s emphasis on the living body (1 Cor. 6:9) cannot be used to\nteach there is no value in a dead body. Second, Paul\u2019s analogy of the body\nbeing a temple of the Holy Spirit is applied only to the living body. Paul\nnowhere affirmed that the body, like a temple, should be destroyed (i.e., some\nimposed means of destruction) after it is used. Therefore, the analogy, that it\ncan be destroyed after it is used, does not follow. Third, Paul\u2019s Jewish\nbackground would strongly suggest that he practiced and approved of burial as\nthe means of disposing of dead bodies. In fact, Paul seemed to imply this by\nmeans of an analogy he used for the resurrection body. In 1 Corinthians 15:42\nPaul said, \u201cThe body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable.\u201d In\ndescribing what happens to a body after death, Paul used an analogy of planting\na seed, which is similar to burying a dead body (1 Corinthians 15:36-44).&nbsp; This is because Paul\u2019s view of the physical\nresurrection teaches that there is a continuity from the body of this life,\nwhich will be transformed and glorified, to the new resurrection body \u2013 a clear\nreenactment of Jesus\u2019 own resurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The\nuse of other Pauline references to the body are also taken out of context. Just\nbecause Paul preferred to be absent from the body and home with the Lord (1\nCor. 5:8), does not mean Paul did not care how the body was treated after\ndeath.&nbsp; In 1 Corinthians 15:50, when Paul\nstated that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, he was referring\nto our corruptible bodies, as the very next phrase reveals: \u201cFor the perishable\nmust clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality\u201d (v.\n53). Paul in no way was saying that this body is unimportant. He was simply\ndrawing a contrast between the mortal body and the immortal body (vv. 45\u201350).\nThe earthly body, because of its condition, cannot inherit the kingdom of God.\nGod must change and raise it imperishable (vv. 51\u201354). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What\nabout the suggestion that for Paul the sting of death is not well represented\nby a prettified corpse and that it is the mortal nature that puts on\nimmortality? First, we do not know what Paul\u2019s opinion was concerning the\nbeautification of a corpse. Paul never wrote on the topic. Second, burying a\ncorpse is the best representation of the Christian\u2019s victory over death. While\nit is true that God is able to resurrect our bodies no matter what their\ncondition might be (i.e., via burial or cremation), it is important to preserve\nthe body for theological reasons. Human nature is a soul-body unity, and it is\nsoul and body together that put on immortality. Further, the corpse is a good\nrepresentation of this hope because it is that very body that will have\nnumerical identity with the glorified body. What better symbol to have then the\nvery body that will someday be glorified? As Paul said, it is the same mortal\nbody that will \u201cput on immortality\u201d (1 Cor. 15:53).&nbsp; Another body or form will not replace it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Finally,\nin light of Paul\u2019s theological use and respect for the body, burial is a more\ncompatible practice. There is, therefore, a precedence for earth burial not\nbecause it enhances bodily resurrection, but because it maintains a consistent\nexpression of its theology that is well grounded in the New Testament.&nbsp; In fact, in Romans 6:4 and Col. 2:12 burial\n(\u201csynthaptomai\u201d meaning \u201cto be buried with\u201d) is used as a figure of\nbaptism.&nbsp; The disciple is represented as\nidentified with his Master in death, burial and risen life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Christian\nAcceptance. While the reasons for the wider acceptance of cremation among some\nChristians may be influential, they are nonetheless flawed. First, Christians\nshould not reinterpret biblical theology so that cremation can be more\nacceptable. If the Bible is God\u2019s Word \u2014 as it claims and evidence supports it\nto be \u2014 then Christians today, even as in biblical times, do not have a right\nto reinterpret it to fit the current culture. For theological and not merely\ncultural reasons, burial as a method of corpse disposal was very important in\nbiblical times therefore important in our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Second,\nwhile extravagant materialistic funerals are certainly questionable, it is hard\nto imagine how the body of the deceased loved one contributes to what some\nclassify as an obscene use of finances (when compared with the cost of\ncremation).&nbsp; Were all the early\nChristians and Jews materialistic because they preserved the body for burial? How\ndoes the body in a funeral make modern Westerners more materialistic than their\nChristian and Jewish ancestors who practiced viewing and burial? Whether corpse\nviewing is beneficial or not is an individual preference and cannot be used as\nan argument against physical burial per se. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From\nAshes to Ashes. Simply because a human practice speeds up what God ordained\ndoes not mean it is right. God ordained that all fallen beings would die (Gen.\n2:16-17; cf. Rom. 5:12), but this does not justify our killing them to speed up\nthe process. God ordained pain (Gen. 3:16), but this does not mean we should\ninflict it on others. There is an important difference between what God can do\nand what we should do. Many babies naturally abort and most adults die\nnaturally, but this does not justify our killing them (Ex. 20:13).&nbsp; Of course, there is a difference. The body is\nalready dead before it is cremated; but this no more justifies cremating it\nthan it does burning a flag because it is going to rot anyway. Again, there is\nsignificance in symbolism, and the symbolism of destroying a body that God\ncreated and that God will resurrect is the wrong message to send. Likewise, the\nsimple fact that given time the body will turn to dust does not mean that we\nshould turn it to dust immediately after death. God created the body, and He\ndesires that we respect it even in death.&nbsp;\nIf we are created in God\u2019s image and Jesus Himself underwent burial,\nthen the deduction that we should do likewise is inferred, not optional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Conclusion: From the Christian perspective, burial is\nthe pattern used in Scripture and has been historically followed by the church.\nOf course, it should be pointed out that cremation is no hindrance to the act,\nor event, of the resurrection. God, in His omnipotence, is certainly able, if\nHe so chooses, to collect every atom and molecule, no matter where it is found\nin the universe, and reconstruct our same bodies in a glorified state. It does\nnot follow from this, however, that cremation is an acceptable general practice.\nWhereas burial is an important practice and symbol in Scripture, cremation is a\npoor symbol of scriptural truth. While cremation is not an intrinsic evil, it\nnonetheless symbolically ignores some important biblical truths. In this sense,\ncremation is a hindrance to the promotion of resurrection truth and should not\nbe a regular practice of Christians. We thus conclude that all Christians\nshould practice Christian burial unless extraordinary circumstances do not\npermit it.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 9:60 &#8211; Jesus said unto him, \u2018Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.\u2019 The Bible clearly teaches about life and death \u2013 both physical and spiritual.&nbsp; Every critical aspect related to our lives is addressed in Scripture as affirmed in 2 Timothy 3:16 (\u201cAll scripture is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke 9v60 Cremation - Grace Evangelical Free Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luke 9v60 Cremation - Grace Evangelical Free Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luke 9:60 &#8211; 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