One of the theological frameworks around this idea is that good people lay quiet in their graves in a restful sleep-like state until it is time to be resurrected into a perfected world
You know as well as I do that the body lying in the grave isn't a person resting. The very idea is clearly either euphemistic or naive (and I give ancient civilisations enough credit to presume that at the beginnings of this tradition it was intended as a euphemism). Dead bodies rot away. Anyone knows this. The process of resurrection clearly involves a complete restructuring of the person, so the body that lies rotting in the grave is of extremely limited relevance to that.
The idea of the body resting is a nice image for those left behind, but in the end, it's a euphemism. Let's not kid ourselves, right?
Actually, I'm keen to pay tribute to EVERYONE by remembering their life rather than speculating on life after death.
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Date: 2013-04-07 09:43 pm (UTC)You know as well as I do that the body lying in the grave isn't a person resting. The very idea is clearly either euphemistic or naive (and I give ancient civilisations enough credit to presume that at the beginnings of this tradition it was intended as a euphemism). Dead bodies rot away. Anyone knows this. The process of resurrection clearly involves a complete restructuring of the person, so the body that lies rotting in the grave is of extremely limited relevance to that.
The idea of the body resting is a nice image for those left behind, but in the end, it's a euphemism. Let's not kid ourselves, right?
Actually, I'm keen to pay tribute to EVERYONE by remembering their life rather than speculating on life after death.
Well yeah, that's what I meant.