Can the dead receive the things that we burnt for them ?

Question

Can the dead receive the things that we burnt for them ?

Answer 1

It's said that God received burnt offerings..but I don't like the idea.(I know that God is not dead. I'm just referring to the spirit world..which includes Him.)

Answer 2

Since we burn the dead ,whats to say we can't burn things to give them ?

We could burn a chicken and it would be dead ,still it is considered we sent them a chicken .We could burn paper and it might not reach them ,or it might even we are sure the tree we cut down has gone to the realm of the dead .

lts a gross opinion ,if they dont recieve the things we burn .Do they have clothes ? Or we get to laugh at them being naked .

Answer 3

No, and that is like witch BS, I would not do that if I was you.

Answer 4

to offer an alternative view though - the act of destroying something on one level of existence means that is existent in another - ie what was one whole is now extinct [no longer in exstence]. If 'extinct' things have a sort of 'anti-existence' [work with me] then when items are destroyed wold they also go there?it depends not jus on religious views, but scientific. quantum theory postis ideas about other existences and atom particles coming into being from non-existence. can things 'return' to 'non-existence / be sent there?

excellent question.

I think the main element of this procedure is psychological and offers comfort to the living though, feeling that they are 'aiding' the passed in some manner, where in some facts, they are helping themselves.

However, this is not a new custom at all - soldiers and warriors would be buried with broken weaons in a same belief that they would have them in the 'next life'/afterlife.

"Energy cannot be created nor desroyed - it merely changes form" - A.Einstein

Answer 5

no, but in doing so it gives the aggrieved a nice warm feeling.

Answer 6

I don't think so.  I think the dead are beyond needing things from this world/life.

Answer 7

The unspoken question here is whether or not dead people retain a distinct individuality.  I have seen no evidence to suggest this is the case, so pending the receipt of such evidence I am perfectly comfortable assuming the dead aren't able to receive anything we burn for them.

Answer 8

na-nay-no

Answer 9

this question could only be accuratly answered by a dead person, however, I'll attempt an answer.

If you mean a corpse, which has mass, yes, they can receive stuff without burning it.

If you mean a persons soul, or spirit which has no physical mass, then no. In order for them to interact with something, that thing would have to have no mass. Even burnt up, objects have mass.

I think its safe to assume that souls, or spirits, do not need physical objects to survive. Until a spirit communicates with the living and asks for physical objects to be burnt, I would assume the answer to your question is a big NO.

Answer 10

They're dead. How could they? Besides, what's burnt is burnt.

However, some people have religious beliefs about this kind of thing. Maybe ask in the Religion & Spirituality category?

Answer 11

I'm pretty sure that they cannot.

However, they don't need anything, anyway.