Until judgement day no one goes to heaven or hell, but are in "limbo". So no one who has died is either in heaven or hell.
2006-12-11 09:31:21 · 27 answers · asked by David H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I`ve had 20 answers and I`m more confused than ever!
2006-12-11 09:43:58 · update #1
As most have said...I don't think any human can say whether this is right or wrong with true confidence. Our minds cannot wrap around the infinite...we were created with finite minds and to believe in faith what the Bible says is true. I am not a strict scholar of the Bible, and will want to look into what the NKJ version says...but interesting question nevertheless.
God Bless!
2006-12-11 09:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by missesbean 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll admit, maybe I am wrong. There is still a lot I need to learn, but here is my opinion. When people die they do (and always have) gone to heaven or hell after being judged. The "Final Judgement Day" will be when God ends all life on earth and destroys hell as well. Then heaven will be on earth, just like in the days of Adam and Eve.
I'm not sure where the idea of "Limbo" comes, hopefully someone can explain this idea because I don't know of any Biblical references to it.
2006-12-11 17:43:35 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which theology you are talking about.
Catholics used to have a doctrine about limbo, but that was supposedly the place where newborn babies who died before being baptized went. I'm almost positive that isn't current doctrine. Catholic still believe in purgatory, which would be kind of the "holding tank" before heaven. There is a whole set of beliefs involved with it that I'm just not familiar enough with to comment on.
Some Catholic theologians say that no one will enter heaven until the second coming or escaton. But once we die, most of them agree that we are removed from the confines of space and time, so who's to say how that all happens.
As for hell, many Catholics including myself describe hell as the complete absensce of God. It is a state that only you can put yourself into by your words, thoughts, feelings, actions, and refusal to be repentant or accept forgivness. For all I know, the second coming (or judgement day) might be a soul's last chance to let God in.
2006-12-11 17:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limbo was never a teaching of the Catholic Church, but a theory given to the state of the souls of unbaptized children, since baptism is necessary for salvation. It gave comfort to grieving mothers who lost children by miscarriage. There is nothing evil or sinister in the motive, as anti-Catholics might suggest. The souls of unbaptized infants are commended to the mercy of God, regardless of how many minutes or months old they are, even in the womb.
If there is no heaven, no resurrection of the dead, the entire Christian story makes no sense.
There is a hell, because Jesus said so. It just happens that in our Libertine Age of no justice, and no right and wrong, the concept of hell is reserved for those labelled neurotic.
2006-12-11 17:50:50 · answer #4 · answered by Br. Dymphna S.F.O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that your probability of getting a Christian scholar is pretty low, so I'll answer. Your assertion is partly correct. (Thanks Fr. John - I forgot about that passage.)
When I went to Catholic school, we were taught that unbaptized babies and non-Christians that lived a life consistent with God's teachings before Jesus' time went to limbo.
For the sins you committed, you will do your time in purgatory until Judgment Day.
The Pope recently decreed that there is no more place called limbo. Since he is infallible in religious matters, all of the souls in limbo now graduated and will go to heaven. When this will happen is unclear.
2006-12-11 17:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by DA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Christian Scholars here, but that was never really the point of limbo. Some say you go straight to Heaven. Paul seemed to think that you just stayed "sleeping" in the grave until Christ came back. Some people think that that is true.
We'll find out when we need to.
2006-12-11 17:33:40 · answer #6 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Elijah was taken up to heaven without even dying!! our souls do not sleep, there are souls entering hell right now! our bodies is what will rise in the call of the trumpet in the day of JESUS' COMING... but they will be transformed into heavenly bodies, glorified bodies.... i believe there are people in heaven... there's no limbo!! if there was a limbo no one will go to hell.... hell is real, repent now and serve GOD....
2006-12-11 17:57:02 · answer #7 · answered by hazel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong..
Jesus told the Thief on the cross that he would be with Him in Paradise. Paul told us that To live is Christ to die is gain. And that to be absence from the body is to be present with the Lord.. I know of no reference at all to a limbo or a limbo like condition or place.. Jim
2006-12-11 17:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no. (before J.C. limbo was partly true though, depending on who you talk to). After you die (this is pre-Judgement Day) you will go to heaven or hell. After a while the world will end and there will be a judgement day (and a second coming of christ). God will then judge everyone left and send them to their respective afterlife
2006-12-11 17:34:42 · answer #9 · answered by asdf 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am afraid you are wrong. As St. Thomas teaches and is substantiated from the psalms and even St. Paul, the soul is in Heaven with God. Their bodies are not. The two are reconciled in the final judgment. Hence, the Paulist phrase, "We await the redemption of our bodies." May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Fr. john
2006-12-11 17:36:14 · answer #10 · answered by som 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋