What does EGW write about...
Ellen Gould White über: "Biblical View on Cremation"
Answer
Holy Scripture teaches that death is a state of sleep-like unconsciousness in which a person rests in the grave until the resurrection. Since a person returns to the earth at death and all thoughts cease, the method of burial has no effect on the dead's lack of consciousness. The believers' hope does not rest on the condition of the body, but on the call of the Life‑giver on the day of resurrection.
The State of the Dead and the Hope of Resurrection
What do the Scriptures say about these matters? David explains that a person is not conscious in death. “His breath departs, he returns to his earth; on that same day his thoughts are lost.” Solomon gives the same testimony: “The living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing at all.”
The Bible clearly teaches that the dead do not go immediately to heaven. They are portrayed as sleeping until the resurrection. ... When they are called out of their deep slumber, they begin thinking exactly where they left off. The last impression was the pain of death, the final thought that they fell under the power of the grave.
He formed man from the dust of the earth, and the disobedient and unholy will be consumed by fire and return to dust.
I saw that the hope of the bereaved is to look forward to the glorious day when the Life‑giver will break the bonds of the grave and the righteous dead will rise and leave their prison, to be clothed with glorious, immortal life.
We followed the body to the grave to rest there until the righteous dead awaken to immortality.
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