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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Since we believe in the resurrection of the body, we do not see a corpse as garbage. From the time of our earliest ancestors in the faith, we have buried our dead, committing them to the earth from which they came with the conviction that they will one day be summoned from it once more. The image of sleep is useful—not because the dead are unconscious but because they will one day be awakened. God deems as faith Joseph committing his bones to his brothers for future transport into the land of promise. In the same way the act of burial is a testimony of the entire community to the resurrection of the body. Cremation is a horrifying testimony of the burning up of the flesh and bones, a testimony that is decidedly pagan in both origin and in practice. Of course, God can resurrect a cremated Christian (or a Christian torn to pieces by lions, etc.), but how we deal with the body of a Christian teaches us - and the watching world - what we really believe about the gospel. Cremation ought then to be shunned by those who hope in Christ.
Russell Moore

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 8:1-10.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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8:1 Vir die musiekleier; op die Gittiet. ‘n Psalm van Dawid.

8:2 o HERE, onse Here, hoe heerlik is u Naam op die ganse aarde! U wat u majesteit gelê het op die hemele.

8:3 Uit die mond van kinders en suiglinge het U sterkte gegrondves, om u teëstanders ontwil, om die vyand en wraakgierige stil te maak.

8:4 As ek u hemel aanskou, die werk van u vingers, die maan en die sterre wat U toeberei het-

8:5 wat is die mens dat U aan hom dink, en die mensekind dat U hom besoek?

8:6 U het hom ‘n weinig minder gemaak as ‘n goddelike wese en hom met eer en heerlikheid gekroon.

8:7 U laat hom heers oor die werke van u hande; U het alles onder sy voete gestel:

8:8 skape en beeste, dié almal, en ook die diere van die veld,

8:9 die voëls van die hemel en die visse van die see, wat trek deur die paaie van die see.

8:10 o HERE, onse Here, hoe heerlik is u Naam op die ganse aarde!