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#106 Is cremation or burial best?

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Pastoral Edge to the Resurrection of the Body

The time for teaching about the resurrection of the body is not at the funeral, but rather is in the ordinary course of teaching in church ad the funeral. What i would push towards is not the platonic view, obviously, which is of a body and an eternal soul. That is not taught in the bible. When the new testament uses the word for soul, psuce, it doesn't mean what that writer means, an in the platonic sense. The holy spirit is a very different idea reality to the soul in platonism. I think that this is something that as pastors we often have to do to work with the people that we've got, where we've got them

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