No subject is more intriguing to human curiosity than that which embraces our understanding of the nature of God. This is particularly important in matters dealing with psychology and emotional issues. After all, we humans are governed by psychological and emotional characteristics, and it is only rational that we would extend our quest for a knowledge of God to involve these principles of life that all of us experience.

Many Christians have asked advice on whether cremation is biblically proper. Some have considered the possibility of cremation because of the exorbitant price of an ordinary burial. The question we must ask ourselves is: Is cremation biblically in order?

How many of you have ever studied a foreign language? If you have you will be acquainted with many idiomatic phrases that if translated into English would be absurd. Indeed, they would be downright laughable. Some of our figures of speech in English, the ones we use all the time in everyday conversation, are utterly ridiculous when understood literally. If you take them down into their elements and look at them exactly for what is said, you would find that many expressions we use in everyday speech are nothing more than complete absurdity if taken literally.

The complete title of this lecture is rather strange. The full title is “The Fullness and the Deficiency of the Ten Commandments.” Before I begin I would like to say one thing about the Ten Commandments. They are, without doubt, the most beautiful body of laws that God or anybody could give to mankind. They are what we would call “the basics” of the Old Covenant, and form in many ways the basis to the New Covenant, and in many ways they form the basis of our understanding of what we call the Mystery, the final teachings of God.