The Old Testament acknowledges that a body is simply dust after death. For many, this is reason enough to accept cremation as an option.
Daniel 12:2 states: “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
In Genesis 3:19 , God told Adam, “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return
