Question for Clergy

If the correct interpretation of the resurrection of
believers is that the self same body will be raised out of
the grave, in the same way that Christs body was raised,
how do you counsel people regarding things such as
cremation, donating organs, terminal illness, and
amputation?

I am asking this question in all seriousness. If the same
body is going to be raised how can this ocurr if the body
was cremated and scattered in the ocean? Surely that
"body" would be incorporated into other things, even other
people over time. If someone has a progressive illness,
would they be better off dying quickly to avoid further
deterioration; or if someone needs an amputation to save
their life, would they be better off dying from gangrene
but still have all their limbs for eternity? If you are a
cadaveric organ donor and they harvest your heart, lungs,
liver, etc after you die, what happens after you are
raised? There are many other implications to this idea,
and frankly it is foreign to me.

I must have missed the class that taught that our self
same bodies will be raised after death. I never had the
understanding that the self same body will be raised after
death, so when I came to understand the preterist view, I
quickly went from accepting partial preterism, (after I
read RC Sproals "The Last Days According to Jesus.") to
full preterism, because the biggest objection the partial
preterist have with preterists is the nature of the
resurrection body. But I already was believing along the
same lines as the preterists, long before I knew what
preterism was.
  
  
  
  
   

   
   
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Received on Thu Apr 20 15:34:17 2006