Greetings Brethren,
We pray for God’s continued blessings and for
your ongoing prayers. Those that come with messages sent by the wicked are
riding low and high. Beloved see not the destruction of your body by BURNING and
the attempt to grind and crush your Bones to Dust. Satan rejoices in a Sand Box
of Dust and Ashes. Will this be added fuel to a Fire already set with an
eternal Flame?
Peace and Love, Your Brother in Christ Carl
Patton writing for the FreedomJournal November 16, 2003, in the year of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
CREMATION AND THE SPIRIT
PART 16: WILL CREMATION/MONEY REDEEM
THE SOUL?
In
the name of God master of the universe, Ruler of the earth.
Thank you Father for the world, this universe
and the Heavens above. Thank you Father for our Savior who came to redeem us
with a price. Thank you Father for the Holy Spirit that you rendered though
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Brethren it is a way of the world and greed
that causes many people (who are Hell-bound) to BURN their body for economic
reasons. Many Heathens and Pagans that don’t know reject God and commit this
ancient practice. However those that claim to know God should know better. All
through the sacred scriptures in regard to death we see the word GRAVE. We
never see a call for ASHES. SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
We stand ready to Preach and Teach that this
is one of the most treacherous and ungodly things any believer can do and a
sure way to Hell. Therefore we remind you as always to read the Bible. Now if
you don’t care what the Bible says about this question like so many among the
Churches of Christ you are surely already in Hell.
We will continue with a word from Psalms that
offers a teaching message more so than one of praise.
We refer you to the 49th Division
of Psalms. Our primary verses will be 6-20.
Psalms 49: 6-9. “They that trust in their
wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;”
“None of them can by any means redeem his
brother, or give to God a ransom for him:”
“(For the redemption of their soul is
precious, and it ceaseth for ever :)”
“That he should still live for ever and not
see corruption.”
If money could save the soul it would not have
been necessary for Christ to die. So those that opt for CREMATION to save money
what are you doing? Money has no place in the redemption of the soul before are
after the death of the body. So how does
money have such a prominent place in the disposal of the body? Don’t forsake
God because you are unable to have a lavish funeral. The ceremony at death has
nothing to do with your salvation that debt has already been paid. The funeral
ceremony/ritual is for the living. So those that have left instruction/wishes
for CREMATION have laid a road map to Hell for all that participate.
Meanwhile as the body goes to rest and dies
the soul lives on. Is the soul killed or tainted by BURNING? How can the BURNED
body be re-united with the soul and spirit. We know that God is able to perform
this miracle however why would you want to test God by BURNING your body?
In the next two verses we will see the word
grave mentioned. Therefore we again bring your attention to the fact that if
God wanted us CREMATED He would somewhere also noted that we are called from
ASHES. Also God would have noted several cases where by some of the Prophets,
Apostles or God forbid Jesus was CREMATED in order to teach us that this is a
proper way to dispose of the dead. However this not the case. Where did this
ungodly act come from?
Psalms 49: 14-15. “Like sheep they are laid
in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion
over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from
their dwelling.”
“But God will redeem my soul from the power
of the grave; for he shall receive me. Selah.”
At the time of death humankind are akin to
the sheep of the pasture or any beast that runs the earth. However those that
are upright that go to the grave will be redeemed. For the record you cannot be
redeemed if you BURN the body. If you don’t know you need to get a good
CONDORANCE and see all the instances where grave is noted in scripture. Then
look for where you will find believers BURNED as a way to dispose of the body.
You want find any. So where does this notion of Satan come from? Where did the
Church of Christ find this Pagan notion?
Meanwhile as the upright deny a world tainted
with CREMATION they will have an advantage over the ungodly as they will inherit
the kingdom. There is life after death.
The soul does not go to the grave. It goes to an unseen state to await the call
for general resurrection. God will bring
the souls out from the; unseen state. Here again Brethren where does the soul
and spirit of the CREMATED person go? There are destinations for good and bad
the righteous and unrighteous however the road is wide for the evil and wicked.
“There was a wicked man and a man who said he
knew God. One professed evil and another professed good. However both were
consumed with the Pagan practice of CREMATION.
At death they saw and felt a second death of
Fire. They also now realized that this was just the preliminary Fire. Meanwhile
along the wide, wide road to the land of the Goats were ASHES in heaps and
mounds that the ants and varmints picked at. There was no call for the body to
be rejoined as it had been destroyed on earth. How it was re-united with the
soul and spirit was one of agony and of pain.”
Cont. Part 17: The Soul Lives For the Righteous
Peace and Love, Carl Patton writing for the
FreedomJournal August 23, 2003 in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
carl@freedomjournalpress.comcastbiz.net