There is a power of life in this seed. But if the seed is burned, this growing process cannot be completed. When the spirit and soul departs from the body it either goes into glory or to eternal darkness, where it awaits the last judgement. Within our bodies there is a seed of resurrection which is invisible to the eye and which cannot be reached by the scalpel. When it is laid in the earth it ripens into resurrection, so to speak, but if cremation takes place, this seed is wantonly destroyed and cannot be brought to fruition.
Cremation is a total distruction of the identity of the remains.
Deliberately burning one's remains is not Biblical and is an abomination to God, because this method is used as punishment for the wicked ones. It also is and has been the tradition of the Heathen. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.