No more Limbo?

Question

I liked Limbo. Now, are we still going to be able to say things like "well, that deal's in Limbo."?

Answer 1

The Church has pondered the suggestion of Limbo for a few hundred years and has decided that it is not a good idea. Limbo was never official doctrine.

Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved." (Mark 16:15-16)

For centuries, people have wondered about children who died before they were baptized. The Bible does not explicitly state that they will go to heaven.

Limbo was suggested as the place where unbaptized babies went when they died. This idea was never official Church doctrine and has been rejected.

The Church now says that it is not sure what happens to unbaptized babies when they die but she entrusts them to the mercy of God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I guess that throws out the "Inherit the Wind" debate;

"Rachel Brown: [addressing the court about the Stebbeins boy] He went swimming in the river with the other boys, he got a cramp and drowned. At the funeral, my father said that Tommy's soul couldn't pass on to Heaven.

Bertram T. Cates: Tell them what your father really said, that Tommy's soul was damned and burning in hellfire! Religion is supposed to comfort people, not scare them to death!"

Answer 3

I know! It's turning us Protestant. Saying that unbaptized babies can go to Heaven is saying that Baptism isn't necessary for Salvation. We're scratching things out, he should've had theologians find verses that support limbo, not abolish it.

Answer 4

limbo is for people that cant afford to bay the cover charge to get into heaven...

Answer 5

The latin term is still appropriate for things tha are on the edge of completion