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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[origamiscienceguy]

I think in Christianity/Judaism there is a certain amount of "physical resurrection" stuff that makes some people nervous of cremation.

Personally, if God's bringing my dead body back to life I'm sure He can do it from ash and teeth as well as bones.

You get a new body, so your old body doesn't matter. (read 2 Corinthians 5)

[Orange Wizard]

Yeah, there are differing interpretations. Some churches believe that your body is physically stitched back together, some believe you plop into an entirely new body (see above), and I think a few believe only your spirit is preserved because they also believe Heaven/Hell are spiritual places rather than physical.
I don't actually know what the official Reformed doctrine on it is. I might remember to ask my minister at some point.
Personally, I don't really know what will happen. Should be interesting to find out, though.

[TD1]

Or to not find out. Nonexistence holds few revelations 

[Orange Wizard]

I wouldn't stake my life on it.

[TD1]

I'd stake my death on it.

[Bohandas]

I think in Christianity/Judaism there is a certain amount of "physical resurrection" stuff that makes some people nervous of cremation.

Personally, if God's bringing my dead body back to life I'm sure He can do it from ash and teeth as well as bones.

And doing it from bones is definitely in the bible, and it's definitely clear that they can even have fallen apart and been scattered:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A1%2D14&version=NIV
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pYb8Wm6-QfA

[origamiscienceguy]

I think in Christianity/Judaism there is a certain amount of "physical resurrection" stuff that makes some people nervous of cremation.

Personally, if God's bringing my dead body back to life I'm sure He can do it from ash and teeth as well as bones.

And doing it from bones is definitely in the bible, and it's definitely clear that they can even have fallen apart and been scattered:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A1%2D14&version=NIV
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pYb8Wm6-QfA

Yes, If God decides to raise you to life in this world, then he can do it. But in heaven, we get a new body.

[TD1]

To ask the classic question of Vardy: Do you have to queue to see Jesus, given it's all physical?

[origamiscienceguy]

To ask the classic question of Vardy: Do you have to queue to see Jesus, given it's all physical?

Can you please elaborate? I don't know what you're asking.

[TD1]

It's a question meant to bring the reality of the situation to you.

You've got your flashy new body from God. Jesus is there... if everyone wants to see him, do they have to queue?

[Orange Wizard]

Probably, I guess? I mean, by that stage we've got eternity, so I don't think it really matters.

[TD1]

Funny. Nothing seems to matter when you have an eternity. How...glum.

Anyway.

Yes, you could queue for years, but I'd hardly call that a happy heaven. Imagine the queues around famous people. Family members from generations ago. Heaven would be one great heaving queue with billions of different destinations.

[i2amroy]

You could probably use some sort of a paging system. That would mean that there's no waiting in line, you can happily go and do whatever you want while you wait for your queue to go through. (After all, how many things do you do today that involve famous people personally? I'm guessing not many).

[TD1]

Oh. Also, interesting question.

Who thinks animals go to heaven?

If not, why not?

[TheDarkStar]

Who thinks animals go to heaven?

This guy.