What exactly is Limbo? (Not the Game)?

Question

I know its an after-life place but what *exactly* is it?

Answer 1

Limbo according to the Roman Catholic Church. The abode of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls, as those of infants or virtuous individuals who lived before the coming of Christ.
A region or condition of oblivion or neglect: Management kept her promotion in limbo for months.
A state or place of confinement.
An intermediate place or state.
Word History: Our use of the word limbo to refer to states of oblivion, confinement, or transition is derived from the theological sense of Limbo as a place where souls remain that cannot enter heaven, for example, unbaptized infants. Limbo in Roman Catholic theology is located on the border of Hell, which explains the name chosen for it. The Latin word limbus, having meanings such as “an ornamental border to a fringe” and “a band or girdle,” was chosen by Christian theologians of the Middle Ages to denote this border region. English borrowed the word limbus directly, but the form that caught on in English, limbo, first recorded in a work composed around 1378, is from the ablative form of limbus, the form that would be used in expressions such as in limb, “in Limbo.”
but I think it is crap

Answer 2

Limbo is not an after-life place, that's a bunch of new age crap. A state of limbo is a place of non-participation, in slang it would be someone who is fence sitting, a person who won't commit one way or the other. It's a degrading place to be, stagnant and decomposing. An unnatural state of being.

Answer 3

Isn't it supposed to be a realm between life on this Earth and whatever afterlife there is, where ghosts and spirits are caught and roam around, waiting for some resolution in their former, earthly life...?

Nevermind; that must be something else. According to Wikipedia, is is a tenet of Roman Catholic theology, and Limbo is a place where saved souls who died before Jesus came wait for admittance into heaven. (Not to be confused with Purgatory, which is a temporary punishment for those who are covered by God's grace but aren't ready to go to Heaven - usually because there are still unrepented sins, etc. - and therefore who need to be cleansed - or "purged" - before they are allowed into Heaven.)

Answer 4

Limbo is a place invented by the r c Cult.
It is not in the Bible.
They claim everybody , more or less, goes there until they buy their way out of the sins committed between their last confession to a priest and their death.
The living buying candles for them
The living buying incense, masses, etc. for them.

I get suspicious it's another money maker for the Cult.

Answer 5

In Roman Catholic belief, it is a place that is not quite Hell. It is not a place of punishment but more a a "holding place" for souls. Good people who died before Christ came and unbaptised infants are two of the beings in Limbo

Answer 6

Limbo, as you call it, is also known as Heaven's Dark Eve, an area on the lower astral plane which is completely neutral, no dark energies, no light energies, just plain grey area where the souls of those are held who basically have had no path in life and are unable to progress in spirit into the higher planes (heaven, summerland, etc) but also who have had no pact with Lucifer to continue on as one of his minions. Sadly there are far too many children and infants here because they either died too young or just were never taught any religious path and were given no direction while they lived. The way out for them is for a previously passed family member to summon them out, or for people who act as Transporters and work with angels to remove them to a "better place" where they can receive their teachings and properly re-incarnate when they are ready.

(Been there many times, seen it for myself.)

Answer 7

It is like a Spiritual Waiting Room....not Heaven...not Hell....

Your soul just sits around tapping its feet and leafing through 20 year old magazines and the receptionist closes her window when you go up to ask how much longer it is going to be and their are lots of unruly kids climbing all over the furniture but there is also some nice music playing softly in the background so its not that bad but not that good either.

Answer 8

I don't want to start a religious argument here, but the Protestant Christians for the most part don't believe in anyplace except heaven or hell when we die. In limbo, means to be inactive or inert. Pending. Waiting.

Answer 9

limbo is when a spirit is stuck between the afterlife and the earth plian which means that it can't cross over or stay here in essense it's stuck like a truck in the mud just spinning tires check my sources

Answer 10

It's another term for purgatory I believe. It's a place where the souls who have not yet attained sufficient purification stay after their earthly bdies die. It's the mid-way betwenn heaven and hell.