If a Christian is cremated, how does his/her body "rise from the ground" when Jesus coming in the 2nd coming?

Great little question. The answer is straight-forward: Christians will be given new, glorious, resurrected bodies. Our old bodies do not rise; they stayed burned in the ground. Philippians 3:20-21 says, “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” Jesus will return one day and give us new glorified resurrected bodies. Think of a seed that is buried in the ground and dies. After a while, it will emerge as something more glorious and beautiful than we could ever imagine. When a Christian dies, we too are buried but likewise spring forth with a glorified resurrected body. The difference between our body now and our future resurrected body is that our body now is mortal and can be subject to sin, but our glorified body is not. It cannot be subject to sin or suffering.



[Answered by Pastor HM]