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To: Brumar89 who wrote (53840)	4/30/2014 2:24:48 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

brumar in spasms of denial again? Say it isn't so....The early jewish/gentile messiah cult called "chrsitianity was all about the body & physical resurrection, really simple minded primitive stuff that, like that wives tale put forth of the empty tomb. (and your empty head) This would appeal to the less educated, superstitious poor & slaves at the beginning, you prolly qualify for those as well, at least the superstitious uneducated part. History and antecedents of Christian burial rites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_burial Among the Greeks and Romans, both cremation and burial were practiced. However, the Jews buried their dead. Even God himself is depicted in the Torah as performing burial: "And [God] buried him ( Moses) in the depression in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor. No man knows the place that he was buried, even to this day." ( Deuteronomy 34:6). Early Christians used only burial, as can be demonstrated from the direct testimony of Tertullian [1] and from the stress laid upon the analogy between the resurrection of the body and the Resurrection of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 15:42). [2] In the light of the dogma of the resurrection of the body as well as of Jewish tradition, [3] the burial of the mortal remains of the Christian dead has always been regarded as an act of religious import. It is surrounded at all times with some