So, he says here, "It's sown and naturalized, raised in spiritual body."
Now, this is why we bury the dead.
This is what it's picturing.
I mean, when someone dies and you put that person's body in that coffin and you put it
into the earth and you put the earth over it, what are you symbolizing?
You're symbolizing that we're planting a seed here.
This body is being sown into the earth and it will eventually be raised again in newness
of life as a spiritual body.
That's why I do not believe in cremation.
And this is why I don't want to be cremated.
I'm not saying to put me in some gold-plated coffin, but for crying out loud, bury me
in the earth.
Bury me out of your sight, whatever.
I'm not saying something fancy, but good night.
You say, "Well, it's cheaper."
Well, I think it's a tragedy how much it costs to bury people now.
People are already grieving, they're going through a hard time, and then they have to
deal with this financial burden of paying thousands and thousands of dollars for a hole in the
ground.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but it used to be in the old days, you'd be buried
out behind the church or something, and would to God that we were able to do that today,
and maybe someday we'll have a cemetery behind our church or something, but it's probably
not going to be zoned right or whatever.
But anyway, what I'm saying is that spend the money, you know what I mean, to at least
bury somebody, because the Bible talks a lot about burial, and it talks about in Ecclesiastes
that it's dishonorable if you don't have a burial.
So I want to be buried, so raise the money or do whatever you have to do.
I have enough money to pay for my own burial, you know what I mean, so anyway.
Why do people get cremated, right?
Because it's cheap.
I mean, you know, I don't want to be, and obviously, look, if you cremate somebody,
that's not going to change what happens to their soul.
That's not going to change the fact that they're resurrected, or at least if they got cremated,
at least bury the, you know, what's left, right?
At least bury something, sow something to the earth.
But you know, I just, if I see that the burial of a body is a sowing of a seed, if it pictures
that resurrection, you know, what is a cremation picture?
Like you're burning in hell or something, you know, so it just seems like a heathen
thing to do.
Basically, if a saved person is cremated, they're still going to heaven, they're still
going to rise again.
No question about that.
But I don't want to do this kind of a pagan, you know, heathen practice of torching people
when they die instead of burying them.
Okay, and I'm not trying to offend anybody if that's what happened to your loved one,
you know, and I have loved ones who were cremated and so forth, but, you know, it wasn't up
to me.
Nobody asked me, you know, because I wouldn't cremate my loved ones.