Cremation query
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Cremation query
Do Anabaptists cremate their dead?
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Max (Plain Catholic)
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Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
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Re: Cremation query
I haven't heard of it among the conservative Anabaptists. There was a man in my area who gave his body for medical research.
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Re: Cremation query
Thank you.Biblical Anabaptist wrote:I haven't heard of it among the conservative Anabaptists. There was a man in my area who gave his body for medical research.
Are there other branches that allow cremation?
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Max (Plain Catholic)
Mt 24:35
Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
Mt 24:35
Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
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Re: Cremation query
I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
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Re: Cremation query
Not that I'm aware of based on any of the funerals I've been to, but there would be no opposition to giving one's body to science or donating one's organs, etc.MaxPC wrote:Do Anabaptists cremate their dead?
A few people here are doing "green" burials (no coffin).
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Nothing prohibiting or discouraging cremation in our MB church. I am booked to be cremated. Back to ashes the fast way.
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Re: Cremation query
Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
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Max (Plain Catholic)
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Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
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Re: Cremation query
One of the reasons I have heard in this area is that cremation is an attempt to get rid of the body so that it is not available to be raised up for judgement.MaxPC wrote:Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
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I suspect this is probably the main reason. Another is that burning of the body was often used by the persecutors, presumably to destroy the person's opportunity to be raised again? (I hadn't thought to wonder why this method was so often used for 'heretics'.) Or, that it is considered a desecration of the body. (As to methods of killing the 'heretic', another common method was by drowning, and for some reason my people, when they came over from Russia, resisted "burial at sea" where possible. I have heard a family story that one of my relatives is buried somewhere on the beach in New York harbor. They kept the body in a trunk until they got off of the ship.)silentreader wrote:One of the reasons I have heard in this area is that cremation is an attempt to get rid of the body so that it is not available to be raised up for judgement.MaxPC wrote:Neto, what is the reason(s) for discouraging cremation in those groups?Neto wrote:I would sat that it is at least strongly frowned on in all of the Mennonite groups with which I have been closely associated.
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