The Hebrew Bible Perspective on Burial and Cremation (Part 4- Final)
In the end, we’re left with God’s own words: “For dust you are, and to dust you shall return”. Genesis 3:19.
In the end, we’re left with God’s own words: “For dust you are, and to dust you shall return”. Genesis 3:19.
If Jehovah’s Witnesses identify themselves as followers of Jesus, and Jesus was a Jew who lived within the biblical Jewish tradition how does the later acceptance of cremation fit with the treatment of the dead found in the Hebrew Scriptures?
A Brief Beginning: How the Jehovah’s Witness Movement Began To understand how Jehovah’s Witnesses came to their present day position on cremation, it is helpful to first look briefly at the origins of the movement itself. The movement that eventually became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses began in the 1870’s in the United States, emerging from…