Greetings Brethren:
We come as always
Praising God. We will do so until we are called from the grave. The Body, Soul
and Spirit are Happy in the Grave. It will rejoice at the call and Praise the
Saints in the life beyond. Where has the Spirit gone?
Therefore we pray
that the Church of Christ will return to God and Christ. We pray Father that
these people will leave the ways of Cultism and conform to the Bible. Arrogance
and elitism as to exclusive knowledge of the Word is not Godly. However a humble
Spirit is a Right Spirit. This is the Spirit that is rejoined with the Body and
Soul to Peace and Paradise.
Peace and Love, Carl
Patton writing for the FreedomJournal October 12, 2003, in the year of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
CREMATION AND THE SPIRIT
PART 9: THE BODY IS A TEMPLE FOR THE
RIGHTEOUS
In
the name of God master of the universe, Ruler of the earth.
We greet you our
beloved brethren in the name of our Father the Creator of all that exists. The
Creator who created this body and your body. The Creator who blessed the world
with his son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. The same Creator who allowed
Jesus Christ to place the Holy Spirit in the body of the Saints of God.
Brethren we come
bearing a record of Truth. As we guard the Book many are set in selfish
Devilish ways of False Prophecy. However if you stay with God and prayer you
can see the Light. Who wants to stay in Darkness? The norm is to see the Light.
However to see the Light involves responsibility. But you don’t have turn on
this Light it is already on and will burn and shine for everlasting.
It is surely a sad
report for the Satan infested sects within the Church of Christ and throughout
many other congregations that believe the body is of no use to God after life has
passed away. This is a foolish and mired in ignorance and ungodliness.
Therefore we will continue with Book, Chapter and Verse to show that BURNING
the DEAD is a DEADLY SIN.
1 Corinthians 6:19.
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
We bear witness
brethren that all believers that have a concern about the question of Cremation
need to closely look at this scripture. The body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost as noted by the writer Paul at this place. Therefore the body is very
important. However at the passing of life does this same body house the Holy
Spirit? Do we tamper with the Holy Spirit if we opt to appease the Heathens and
Pagans and BURN the body? Meanwhile this
verse further reveals that God our Father claims possession of the bodies of
the saints. He does this in order that His spiritual body will be pure. Here we
note that body is in reference to the Church and the individual. So do you
think that God is pleased with anyone that professes to be a Christian that
willfully requests that their body be BURNED to ashes at the time of death?
For greater clarity
let’s look at several companion and related scriptures:
II Corinthians 6:16.
(We advise the reader here to refer to the verse prior to the 16th
and the verse after. We will also note these verses as we offer an explanation
of the text as it applies to our topic). “And what agreement hath the temple of
God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I
will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be my people.”
The Word reveals here
that Satan is in the midst of those that seek to defile the temple with idols.
This temple is the Church and your body. Also we note that these are Heathen
and Pagan practices. CREMATION definitely comes from Heathens and Pagans who
worship idols. Thus Christians are instructed here to come out from among those
that are Heathens. The believers must separate themselves from Heathens and
Pagans then God will own them and be their God. It is for sure that those that
BURN the dead are not God’s people. However God offers repentance. But has the
Holy Ghost been tampered with when one is BURNED and CREMATED? (Also see Romans
14:7-8).
! Corinthians 6:20.
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.”
God paid the price
for our bodies, soul and spirit with the precious blood of His son Jesus Christ.
Therefore God places a high premium on our flesh and spiritual being. Therefore
it is the Christian’s duty and responsibility to use their bodies, spirits, and
minds to glorify God. Can you glorify God by BURNING your flesh at death?
Let’s look at a
scripture in Acts.
Acts 20:28. “Take
heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath
purchased with his own blood.”
Brethren here we see
a great charge to the Church leadership. The Church noted here is the Church of
Christ that is noted in scripture. This New Testament Church noted Elders as
the primary ruling officers. The Elders are commanded to feed this Church.
However most Elders among the people that claim to follow Christ’s Church
(contemporary times) are filled with False Doctrine. One of the most dreadful
and Heathen Doctrines they preach and teach is CREMATION. Meanwhile they reject
any scripture that refutes the various false teachings handed down by Satan’s
messengers their Divinity schools and among the various congregations and
leadership.
In closing this
lesson we offer the following and note the question. Will the CREAMATORS take
this verse and distort the meaning to justify burning the dead?
1 Corinthians 13:3.
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to the burned, and have not charity, it profieth me nothing.”
The major thought
projected throughout chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians is love. Here Paul reveals
that even if he gave all he had to the poor and burned your body as an ultimate
sacrifice it would be nothing without love. FOR THE RECORD PAUL WAS NOTING THAT
BURNING THE BODY ALIVE OR DEAD WAS ONE OF THE MOST NEGATIVE THINGS ONE COULD
DO. Paul never here are at any other place wrote that CREMATION is Godly. Nor
did any other writer of the Old or New Testament. However he noted that even
with this sacrifice for the poor it was nothing without love. Are you really
dead when breath passes from the body? Can you feel anything as you go to sleep
to await the CALL FROM THE GRAVE? Suppose you don’t make it to the grave.
Cont. Part 10: Can You Burn The Soul?
Peace and Love, Carl
Patton writing for the FreedomJournal August 20, 2003 in the year of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
carl@freedomjournalpress.comcastbiz.net