The Church always finds a way

>Just because he didn't bodily raise himself up from the dead doesn't mean the resurrection didn't happen, he just resurrected as the holy spirit! You just don't get rich, symbolic metaphor.

I guess reconstituting yourself from ashes is a bit more impressive than reanimating one's corpse.

>>929976
The key point was that his remains disappeared which supported the claims he either resurrected or his body was stolen. This wouldn't exactly change with cremation. Actually it would make it easier to steal his remains to fake resurrection.

>>929976
Then he would not be a god of vegetation, but of the hearth.

>>930023
The Church says you'd have to bury the ashes together though.

God's able to resuscitate the dead on Judgement day, but he's not some miracle worker who can just recollect scattered ashes. Who do you think he is?

>>930044
Is there official Catholic doctrine pertaining to cremation?