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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (20334)	6/13/2005 1:32:30 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

This is interesting: Jesus Gave Little Attention to Disposing of the Dead. Phipps also argues that further allowance for cremation should be given because Jesus gave little attention to the disposal of the dead. In fact, His only words on the subject were, “Let the dead bury their own dead” (Luke 9:60). Jesus, Phipps argues, made a negative reference to earth burial when He compared hypocrites to “whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean” (Matt. 23:27). Paul’s Theology Deemphasized the Body. The apostle Paul, argues Phipps, found sacred value only in the living body. It was the living body that was the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:9), not the dead one. Phipps suggests that just as a temple is constructed for worship and is destroyed after it is no longer used for worship, the body may be dispensed with in a like manner. Paul viewed the body as an earthly tent that would soon be demolished after use. He concluded his view of death by stating, “We are confident...and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8). Paul has his fullest discussion on life after death in 1 Corinthians 15. There he stated “that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (v. 50). According to Phipps, [Paul] did not believe that the residual dust in a tomb would be the substance of a new heavenly organism. When the apostle writes about “the resurrection of the dead,” he does not mean the reassembling and the reanimation of the corpse. The expression “spiritual body” (1 Cor. 15:5) which he uses does not refer to the physical skeleton and the flesh that hangs on it. Rather, in modern terminology, it means the self or the personality. What removed death’s sting for Paul was not gazing at a prettified corpse but the good news that mortal nature can “put on immortality” (1 Cor. 15:44).3 Phipps concludes his view of Paul’s theology by stating that it “is fully compatible with body disposal by cremation. Contrariwise, those who adamantly advocate earth burial because it enhances bodily resurrection have a weak New Testament foundation on which to stand.”4 equip.org I have a very similar view of the dead body: "Phipps suggests that just as a temple is constructed for worship and is destroyed after it is no longer used for worship, the body may be dispensed with in a like manner. Paul viewed the body as an earthly tent that would soon be demolished after use. " How interesting!