2006-07-28 02:55:37 · 14 answers · asked by ttamill02 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Limbo was the place in Catholicism that unbaptized people went, in lieu of Heaven. The new Pope recently issued a new Dogma dispelling the concept of "Limbo".
2006-07-28 02:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limbo would be a game that you see can walk under a bar the closest to the ground. We Christians can play that game as well or better then anyone else.
If you are talking about some spiritual limbo, it does not exist.
2006-07-28 10:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing in the Christian religion. However in Voodoo practices limbo refers to a place between heaven and hell.
2006-07-28 10:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
limbo and purgatory are catholic views
Jesus always used images where you went to a heaven or hell type place, sheep and goats, good fish bad fish, wheat and tears, in the city of jerusal or outside.... so I dont see it in the images Jesus used in the gospel or in Revelation
portestants and eastern orthodox dont agree there is such a place
limbo is an in between place where unbaptized babies go and no very consistent as far as what it is
purgatory a place were a person atotnes for sins that do not kill the work of grace
these are not biblical in my opinion, but traditional catholic views
2006-07-28 10:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear George Carlin's jokes about Limbo? Very funny.
2006-07-28 12:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are getting some bad answers here. According to canon law, in addition to HEAVEN and HELL there are two types of LIMBO as well as PURGATORY.
1. Hell in the strict sense, or the place of punishment for the damned, be they demons or men;
2. The limbo of infants (limbus parvulorum), where those who die in original sin alone, and without personal mortal sin, are confined and undergo some kind of punishment;
3. The limbo of the Fathers (limbus patrum), in which the souls of the just who died before Christ awaited their admission to heaven; for in the meantime heaven was closed against them in punishment for the sin of Adam;
4. Purgatory, where the just, who die in venial sin or who still owe a debt of temporal punishment for sin, are cleansed by suffering before their admission to heaven.
5. Heaven where everything is ponies and lollipops (well in my heaven there is!) : )
Hope this helps,
Billy!
2006-07-28 10:08:01 · answer #6 · answered by Billy! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To clarify, limbo was for unbaptized babies in the Catholic church. It is NOT equal to purgatory as one other poster said. Purgatory (Lat., "purgare", to make clean, to purify) in accordance with Catholic teaching is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions. An unbaptized baby would have only original sin.
2006-07-28 10:00:39 · answer #7 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limbo used to be the "mid-way point" between heaven and hell. You know you didn't quite make it to heave, but you were not bad enough to be sent to hell...as time has gone by, they have done away with this concept. Goes to show, religion can be so deceiving...
2006-07-28 09:59:57 · answer #8 · answered by a_latinalady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know of any "limbo" in christianity.
2006-07-28 09:57:05 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a place for innocent people, especially babies, who are not baptized, and for people who never heard of Christ. They are happy, but do not see God.
Limbo is an invention of the Catholic Church to explain the age old question of what happens to people the Gospel does not reach. Evangelicals do not accept this.
2006-07-28 10:00:32 · answer #10 · answered by freelancenut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋