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Following a polite if sparse cremation service held in the clean but anonymous halls of blonde wood and magnolia paint at the local crematorium, and with the memory of the pastor’s mistaken belief that his wife’s name was Aileen twitching behind his eyes, Ken carried out Eileen’s last wish, which was to have her ashes scattered on the garlic beds
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their becoming ashes must be the same fate reserved for the lost - cremation
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the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15) which will be a terrible fate - cremation
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The team from Rosegard filed out of the car as if on their way to a cremation
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Cremation serves as an alternative to the traditional body in a coffin
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Cremation, in the true sense of the word is not an alternative for a traditional burial, but rather an alternative method of body disposal
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A Cremation is normally executed in a crematorium which is basically just a building, housing a large, modern oven
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The first cremation was executed in England at Woking on 26th of March 1886
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Legislation was only passed in 1902 in the form of the Cremation Act of 1902
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A certain Doctor William Price from England was the first person to perform a “legal” cremation according to his eccentric religious beliefs
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cremation) is the soul free for the sky to accept the soul, or so he believed
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Doctor Price was acquitted on account of there was no law at the time which prohibited the act of cremation; therefore the cremation was ruled as being legal
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The Times reported on the front page that approximately twenty thousand people attended the cremation
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Cremation and Church History
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When the cremation of Price was declared as being legal by the court, Wales followed suit
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The cremation act of 1902 was however not accepted in Ireland at the time because Ireland insisted on a few requirements before any cremation could be performed:
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Cremation venues had to be approved, prior to the cremation
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Some protestant churches accepted cremation without any reservations
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The Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1908 was critical toward people who accepted cremation
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It suggested that these people are evil and linked them with freemasonry, although they declared that there is nothing in their Catholic dogma which condemns cremation
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Pope Paul VI lifted the ban on cremation in 1963 and in 1966 he allowed catholic priests to perform cremation services
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Sources allege that some people specifically chose cremation because they believed that one would not be resurrected, once cremated to ashes
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Dynamics of the Cremation oven
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Let’s just quickly have a look at the dynamics of the device itself so that we can distinguish between the huge differences of cremation versus the traditional burial
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These chambers are lined with heat reflective ceramic bricks, specially designed to resist the high temperatures achieved during the cremation process
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It consists of oxygen and temperature sensors which monitors and regulates the cremation process
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The duration of a cremation can be anywhere between 70 and 200 minutes (One hour, ten minutes or three hours and twenty minutes)
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The operator ends the process when he observes the cremation to be complete
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This is enough basic information regarding the cremation oven
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Later on we will delve a little deeper into the practice of cremation
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They had abandoned the cremation
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Cremation – Early history
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Cremation or “body burning” has come a long way, in fact long before Price inhaled his first breath
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During the Bronze Age, 2500 to 1000 before Christ, it is believed that the act of cremation migrated to the British islands and -what we know today as Spain and Portugal
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Cemeteries for cremation developed in Hungary and North Italy and then migrated to North Europe and even Ireland
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When Constantine paganised the Christians and Christianised the pagans in his roman empire, the traditional ground burial replaced cremation and remained like this for approximately 1500 years
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In spite of the fact that cremation was not supported for over 1500 years, people like Price proverbially lit the cremation flame again
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By 1999, the cremation figure for the USA was at 25
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The Balinese Hindu buries its dead for a month or even a year before the act of cremation is performed and this is for the following two reasons:
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To perform the cremation ceremony on dates that coincides with their holy calendar
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On the other hand, Islam forbids cremation in the strongest possible form
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This supposedly suggests that Jesus compares a grave and dead man’s bones to something unclean, hence cremation is acceptable
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Cremation merely speeds up the process of “returning” to dust
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The last argument is that ChristenDUM accepts cremation more and more on a daily basis as an alternative to the traditional burial
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The Dust of Cremation
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We do have a few sources which indicate some people to have motivated their cremation with a belief that the cremated will not be resurrected
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What do we learn from this? After Jesus’s resurrection, from His tomb, He had flesh and very importantly, BONES! He even ate after he was resurrected from His tomb! The next logical question must be: What would have happened if Jesus was cremated and His bones were ground to fine powder? This dear reader, must be one of the most important thoughts in your decision making process if you are in fact considering cremation!
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“If the technology for cremation was available in biblical times, the Israelites would have surely used it
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Can we add to it what the church and preachers of today tells us and accept cremation as not condemned by the Bible, by God even?
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Can we diminish from it and state that we are not cremating to Molech, therefore cremation is not condemned by the Bible?
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Can you see that cremation was in existence from the earliest times? Can you see that it is a whoredom in Gods eyes? Can you see that it draws God’s wrath? Can you see that God uses this abomination only as severe punishment for his enemies, the condemned, who gravely sinned against Him?
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If Jesus was cremated, would He have been resurrected? I don’t know, but what I do know is: how can one possibly associate cremation with what we just read?
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Do you believe what God’s Word says? If so, does it not tell you that we do not have a say in terms of the disposal of our bodies as far as cremation is concerned, because it does not belong to us? We have been bought with a very high price; therefore glorify God also with your body by not committing it to the pagan practise of burning it to whoredom!
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Worst of all, how can we love God if we have no knowledge of Him? You may think that you know God from all your years of attending church, but I put it to you that the God of the Bible and the god of the church, is not the same god, not by a long shot my friend! Ask yourself how on earth a spiritual leader can teach “the flock” that they have the right to choose between cremation and a traditional burial
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Question: Did we in any way, shape or form read that cremation is being taught, validated or approved? NO!
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It is also because of this misconception that people think there is nothing wrong with cremation i
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In other words, His glorified body is such an identical image or replica to His previous earthly body, that it even has the identical scars! How on earth could one, knowing this, justify cremation in any way or form whatsoever?
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Even though I am a South African citizen and we will look at one of the highest South African church presidents, most churches and most preachers and ministers around the entire globe are no different in their teachings regarding cremation
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Church Leaders and Cremation
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The doctor continues by listing a few arguments in favour of cremation (just as I do in this book) and then makes a few statements regarding scripture
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There are certain things which we just know is evil, nobody has to teach you that its evil, you know it is, therefore abstain from it, just like cremation is evil
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Why am I then trying to warn you against cremation, at all costs? The church teaches that all sins are the same, but that is also a false teaching
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The Judgement of cremation
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Then consider very seriously that God never ever commanded cremation for his children, but used it only in dire punishment in His wrath as the passages below prove! Together with punishment of fire, also note the destruction of bones, as is the case with any cremation!
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He even had the scars where the sword entered His side and yes, He even ate food! How on earth I ask, could anyone link this to cremation?
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CAN THIS BE ASSOCIATED WITH CREMATION?”
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Sometime you have to decide if you are a follower of God and His Word (instructions), or the word of the church and her false teachers whom teaches that there is absolutely nothing wrong with cremation
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For example: the difference between the scriptural burial and the ungodly act of cremation
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Allow me to share my view; if after all the scriptures we studied up to this point, you still remain unconvinced that cremation is an abomination, then I say to you:
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I am not entirely convinced that a scriptural burial, in the ground, necessarily has to be more expensive than cremation, however:
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Cremation is not associated with decomposing bodies; therefore it is clean and more acceptable
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This may be so, but the act of cremation is no less sombre
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In fact, with cremation it is a case of where the eye does not see the heart does not grieve
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If you claim to believe in His Name, you will also believe in what He teaches us in His Word and leave cremation to the churches, the Christians, the heathens and the none believer’s!
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It’s possible dear reader that you, with millions of other people regard the “ash” as the product of a cremation
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Well, this unfortunately is one of the biggest lies in the cremation story!
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Considering the temperature of the cremation oven, in extreme cases of 1150 °C, we note that all the metals above melted, from Zinc to Copper
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When people talk about or consider cremation, they believe that only “ash” remains after the cremation process has been completed
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When there is nothing left of the body, all the matter that is left in the cremation oven is collected, after it cooled down of course, and stored in a container
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In fact, there is practically no ash after the cremation
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Besides possible jewellery and teeth fillings, there are still a few items remaining after the cremation
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Now for the big question: If the melting point of titanium is 1670°C, why are the bones still present and not burned to ash? Could it be that the melting point of bone is so high that even the cremation oven will not be able to withstand such high temperatures? I think the evidence speaks for itself
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Tommy Marsh established the business in the mid-1970s, to fill a gap in the cremation market
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Between 1996 and 2002 more than 2000 bodies were sent to the crematorium for cremation
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(Mercury is one of the side products of the cremation process)
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Lets just take a few notes from the above – this article confirms that the bones are gathered after the cremation
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According to Independent Crematoriums South-Africa’s brochure, families are assured that they only receive their loved ones ashes as the cremation oven can only accept one adult at a time
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Before a cremation may proceed, an appointed medial arbitrator must approve the cremation, after- the identity of the deceased has been obtained and verified, the cause of death been established and that the cremation is not against the wishes of the deceased
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that the cremation is not against the wishes of the deceased
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Do you hear the Christian preachers who soothe our ears so skilfully and tell us that we can choose and nobody may tell us otherwise, and that nothing is wrong with cremation, share these gory details with us? Never!
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Did you, who may have had a loved one cremated, know that in the same cremation oven, first a dog was cremated, then a cat, then your loved one and then a monkey?
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He explains that they can bury the bones in individual grave sites, but this will double the cost of the cremation
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The argument that a cremation is less expensive than a traditional burial evaporates like fog in sunshine when they have to bury the remains anyway! How many people are there who knows about the largest portion of the remains which needs to be buried anyway, when they receive the so-called ashes? We’ve read already that the relatives are totally unaware of this and are definitely not notified by the crematorium related industry
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She says there remain virtually no bones after the cremation”
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(I wonder if this manager ever witnessed a cremation, hence her statement that there are virtually no bones left after the cremation
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From other sources with regard to cremation in general, there is a wealth of stories of people who did not receive their loved ones “real” ashes