Why wasn't Jesus given a proper burial?
398355
He was.  Under Jewish traditional burial practices a body was wrapped and placed in a cave tomb for a year until it decayed completely.  Then the bones were taken up and placed in a small stone casket, which was left with other caskets in a family part of the cave/tomb.  The description in the Gospels follows the first part of this tradition.
654267
There was a group in Paul's day that said when Jesus resurrected, He was a spirit and not a body. Jesus proved this to be false because He ate with the disciples and said to Thomas, "See, a spirit does not have flesh and bone." (note: no blood, that was shed on the cross)\n\nAlso notice that Jesus was able to appear and disappear at will. Yes, Jesus has a body, but there was something about it that superceded the laws of physics. It was a resurrected body. But note also that He still bore the scars of His crucifiction. These will be a living witness of His love for us for the rest of eternity.\n\nThis new body is a slight glimpse of what is waiting for the believer. Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also." Some think that this "place" is actually our new body.\n\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. - 1 Peter 1
1136818
The Church wanted to elevate Jesus from prophet status to 'Son of God' status, in order to do that, they had to put him on a pedestal and and make him beyond having earthy  needs and desires. Doing something so... ,so HUMAN as marrying and having children just isn't acceptable.
797365
Perhaps because he didn't exist.  The stuff attributed to him was written decades after he supposedly died.\n\nPerhaps what he taught wasn't that interesting or he was illiterate.  Apparently, it took decades after he died before anybody (i.e. Paul/Saul) "remembered" his teachings.  And then decades after that some other people (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John or other people) "remembered" more of his teachings and weird details of his early years.
629450
It's kinda difficult to bury a LIVING person. They kinda get annoyed about the dirt and stuff. =)
2877
It is not that the Bible forbade cremation as much as there as several references (in the Old Testament) to the phrase “bury the dead.”  Even the Catholic Church during the plagues would allow for the bodies of believers to be burned.\nSome people might interpret scriptures differently.
441527
It's a very old tradition from times when people traveled by foot and most people were farmers.  News traveled slowly and this gave people time to hear the news, then wait until the crops were in to go visit the dead.  \nIt was also a sign of wealth, as one has to pay the temple to leave someone there.\nThey still wait several days (even months).  Part of it might be that ensures you don't cremate someone who is still alive.
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I believe there is a high likelyhood that a man name jesus exhisted and did much good in his time, just like i believe in the doctors of today who do good. \n\nNow as to him being some holy being, that I don't quite believe in because it doesn't make alot of sense to me, just as I wouldn't believe in a doctor brought a corpse back to life. \n(not talking about people who are legally dead for a few minutes because that happens somewhat often with today's science.. I mean someone whos really dead.. REALLY REALLY dead.)
1161576
True, but we are not, we are still on earth and have lost a loved one, it is normal to grieve. Jesus did not chastise Mary and Martha when Lazarus died.
196391
Jesus did not die naked on the cross, he also did not deserve to be crucified.  Jesus was the one and only human being that lived absolutely, positively perfect.  Completely sin free.  It was tradition to break the legs of the people crucified to hurry the death.  They did not do that to him either.  Neither the humiliation of nakedness, nor the breaking of the legs was tolerated by God, therefore it did not happen.
427940
Jesus wept because, they did not have faith in him in the previous versus it says that everyone was crying, and seeing them all cry he then asked where the body was then he cried.  He did not cry becuase Lazarus was dead because he knew that he has only sleeping.  He cried because he saw that no one belived in his power and were saying if you had come earlier Lazarus woulnd't had died. (sort of blaming him), becuase they even said that it had been too long for him and that the body was decomposed.. Jesus did that on purposed so that the Glory of God would be revealed.\n\nSo basically He cried because he saw no one had faith in him, even after seeing all the miracles.
624284
Yes, because he was perfect.  Disease and aging had no hold over Christ.  Had he not been murdered in some other fashion, he would still be living as a man on earth rather than a spirit in heaven.  Great question.
394425
hmm... Jesus did not die for a religion or belief... He was the belief, the way, the Hope. He died for us, then He arose out of the grave. Therefore He is not a martyr. But he gave us something to become martyrs for... I talk in circles i know :)
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That's what sets Jesus apart from all of the other religious leaders who have come forth in history. Buddha and Mohamed are dead and buried. But Jesus proved that He was really the Son of God in a dramatic way by first allowing Himself to be killed to atone for our sins and then by being raised from the dead and seen by over 500 witnesses before ascending into Heaven in front of 12 people.\n\nhttp://web.express56.com/~bromar/
580625
Well, that would make him more human than divine (or, at least, in some people's minds, detract from his divinity).  For pretty much the same reason, the Catholic Church upholds the idea that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a perpetual virgin.  (They state that she and Joseph never consummated their marriage.  To have had siblings would have made Jesus too human.  People would have pointed to the mortality of the siblings as arguement that Jesus was merely a human philosopher.)\nAlso, a belief system that would have allowed for such an idea as the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene would have set up a complicated sytem of privilege.  Claimants of descent from Jesus would have caused huge political consequences, if such claims didn't otherwise doom the religion early on.\nIn short, such a belief would have complicated the religion.
182940
Death was not as easily or accurately determined in those days.  A person might be cut down from the cross while still alive.  If Joseph knew that Jesus would come back from the dead because he had not altogether died, he kept his secret through the centuries.  His version of events might then have something of the nature of a cover-up.
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Your argument doesn't hold water. For it to be a good argument all the facts need to be true and provable. Jesus wasn't even killed on a cross he was hung.And almost nothing else you said is provable.