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No, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not allow cremation. The Christian Church from the earliest times practiced burial of the dead, as the Roman catacombs reveal. Christ resurrected the bodies of many people during His ministry on earth, such as Lazarus, and His disciples also performed many miracles and even resurrected the dead (Acts 9:36-41). So the Eastern Orthodox Church views cremation as a mockery of Christ and His Apostles who resurrected human bodies, not ashes. Additionally, during the great earthquake that happened immediately after Christ's death on the Cross, the graves opened up and the bodies of the saints were raised from the dead (Matthew 27:51-54). Cremation has also been the custom of most atheists and the pagan religions, which do not believe in resurrection, and that is another reason why the Eastern Orthodox Church has always been against it.
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∙ 12y agoThe Orthodox Church does not believe in cremation. This is because it holds that all humans are made in the image and likeness of God, and cremation tarnishes the image. However, cremation has been fiercely debated recently in the church, and the view may change in the near future.
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She is Eastern Orthodox. More specifically, Bulgarian Orthodox. Not Russian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox.
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Pentecostals do believe in cremation.
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Roman Catholics believe in Papal Primacy, Papal Infallibility, the Immaculate Conception, and Purgatory while Eastern Orthodox people do not. Roman Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, while Eastern Orthodox people believe that the Holy Spirit only proceeds from the Father.
Does the Orthodox Church believe in being born again?
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Eastern Orthodoxy is a Christian denomination (the second largest, with Catholicism first). So Orthodox Christians believe in the Holy Trinity and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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they believed that unicorns were purple. BRIANNAS THE BOMB.
How many books are there in the Eastern Orthodox Bible?
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