There is a
disturbing accusation of a local funeral home director selling body parts. It
appears that, for a reduced fee in expenses, some clients and their
representatives signed releases for the deceased to be used for “research”
purposes. Clients were unaware that the body-broker was then selling body parts.
The outcome of the FBI investigation remains to be seen. I understand the
outrage of those who feel the body of their loved one may have been abused. However,
Paul would have us look beyond earthly death, “But someone may ask, “How are
the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How
foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When
you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of
wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he
has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body…So
will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is
perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body” (1 Cor
15:35-38, 42-44 NIV).
1 comment:
Gail;
-----There’s been a lot of people on this world. Of course, we haven’t stripped bare the earth’s supply of necessary chemicals for the making of bodies. But even at that, with all the circlediness of life we hear so much about, you know, like how the food chain starts at the bottom tiny bug and works its way up the ladder, one eating another to be eaten by another until it reaches the top, we know those chemicals are being used over and over in many different bodies. The process is so much a part of life that by the top predator being eaten by the bottom bug we can understand that some of those molecules are running the circuit around and around too. And of course, we’re all eating in that circuit. Then we die. And bugs eat us. So our molecules carry on in the circuit. But even before that happens, our bodies have completely rebuilt themselves every seven years, That multiplies the circuit running about twelve times, on average. What I’m struggling to demonstrate is that much of everyone’s bodies are made of chemicals many other’s bodies were also made of. So when we are all resurrected, who is going to get which molecule, seeing that one molecule took part in many bodies? Or does this really matter, since our bodies are not raised with this world’s inglorious substance, but of heaven’s glorious substance?
-----So how does it really matter that the funeral home was just passing inglorious nature on in bigger chunks? If we truly love others, wouldn’t we want the supply of parts and accessories to be plentiful for everyone’s good health? Yah, I understand that substituting Portland Cement for the loved one’s ashes somehow doesn’t quite seem kosher, but I’ll bet the kid that got the kidney was at least ok with it. It really makes me bitter to see those monstrous car crushers at auto salvage yards. There’s usable parts on those old bodies! But in the end, the crushed cars just get smelted down for their molecules to become new cars again. Most survivors were just going to throw the ashes into the wind, anyway, which would only get picked up by the circuit again. Why not just hand it over in more useful chunks? Or am I beginning to advocate to much for Soylent Green? I love the conundrums loving causes.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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