Let’s make something clear from the start: the Bible does not command burial, nor does it condemn cremation. Scripture plainly identifies every sin that humanity must avoid, but in no passage do we find a commandment that obligates burial or prohibits cremation.
When the apostle John described the burial of Jesus, he wrote: “Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury” (John 19:40). Notice that he called it a Jewish...