It would appear that the bodily resurrection of the dead is a teaching found rather late in the Bible. Initially, God’s people apparently believed that the current life is all that there is (Psalm 115:17). In the New Testament times, the Sadducees rejected belief in the afterlife as well. But as early as the prophet Daniel’s writing, and certainly later in the Apostle Paul’s writings, God revealed to his people a fuller plan of salvation, which included an afterlife characterized by bodily resurrection. This means that, contrary to popular notions about disembodied eternal existence, the Christian hope is grounded in Jesus Christ’s resurrection, which is a foreshadowing of what the church will share in as well.
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Good stuff, Matt.
How can we relate this to cremation?