So there is no more limbo. Funny how one man can just end something that supposedly exists, eh?

Question

So what happens to all those babies in limbo now that the pope ended the concept of limbo?
Isn't all this stuff supposed to be divine? How can one dude just scrap the whole idea? how bogus.

Answer 1

Who does that Guy (with the funny pointed hat) think he is---GOD?
Ditto................

Answer 2

There never WAS limbo. The Church never had an official teaching on it. Did a few misguided priests perpetuate the notion of Limbo.....yes!!!!!!!!!!! The Pope is simply clarifying the fact that it was not ever a church teaching.

I know of a woman who is spreading the idea that Mary id the 4th person of the Trinity....doesn't make her correct. Benny Hinn (Assembly of God) claims that there are NINE (?!) Persons in the Trinity... Father Son & Holy Spirit...plus each Person is its own Trinity....doesn't make him right, either. There are plenty of mis-conceptions out there. The Pope can clarify the Limbo one....the Assembly of God has no central authroity to do likewise....so Ol' Benny and others are allowed to continue inventing/interpreting doctrine as they see fit. The result? Countless new denominations popping up every year!

Answer 3

nice to see the pope finally strike the nonsense teaching of limbo (or purgatory) from the roman catholic doctrine.

Now all he has to do is....

1) admit that he is NOT an Apostle with Apostolic authority.

2) admit that Mary is NOT to be worshiped and called the mother of God.

3) Throw out ALL the graven images of God that they have in their organization buildings of worship. (see the 10 commandments)

4) Stop teaching that taking communion is needed to go to Heaven and that the wafer actually turns into the flesh of Christ, when the priest prays over it.

5) Stop praying to saints.

6) Start teaching the TRUE Gospel Of Jesus Christ.

all the above would be a good start to cleaning up a religion that has been misleading people for century's!

Answer 4

The pope didn't scrap the idea of limbo - he clarified it. Limbo was never a part of the Catholic faith. It was something that theologians made up, and it was very popular for a long time, but never something divine. The pope is simply clarifying that Catholics don't believe in limbo, which we never did. There were never any babies in limbo, because limbo never existed. Sorry for the confusion.

God bless.

Answer 5

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 6

I saw the no more limbo thing too, and had a good laugh. People who believe in religions fail to see that this is how all religions and myths evolved. Some guy in power decided how it should be, and made it the law. Some poor scribe wrote it down.

So now the church that fabricated the dogma of baptism to remove original sin is left with the dilemma of babies not needing it to gain heaven. Well if babies do not need it, then why do adults? Just because they are babies, and no god would be so cruel as to send babies to hell? So I guess there is no original sin then.

Answer 7

AFAIK, Limbo was not mentioned in any of the scriptures. They made it up in the first place.

It was like the concept of Santa Claus. They needed something to tell the kids who invariably ask what happens to a child who dies before he/she is baptized. We were taught this in Catholic elementary school.

Where are the souls of those unfortunate infants? Well, the church seems to have no idea, so I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. My ideal of a merciful God would not penalize an innocent, but some twisted dogma monger centuries ago could not give us the comfort of believing that they simply go to heaven where they belong.

Now they change their tune...

Answer 8

first, let me say that babies don't go to limbo, they head straight to Heaven. Babies are innocent. and second...just because the Pope ended the "concept" of limbo doesn't mean he can say if something exists or not....he isn't God. I don't believe in Limbo myself.

Answer 9

Tell it to poor planet Pluto and the tons of other stuff that humanity has changed it's mind on. Luckily for those poor limbo babies, there was no way to prove the concept of Limbo in the first place and so they were probably not affected by our silliness.

Peace!

Answer 10

Apparently limbo was never doctrine, but a hypothesis...meaning it was never proven...just like any hypothesis, it has to be tested the best way we can, but of course you are talking about a plane of existence which can not be proven or disproven by anyone. In any case, a hypothesis is just that a guess on something...they never said it was in fact a doctrine of the faith.

Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood

Answer 11

What happens is the Catholic Church switches to what Jesus said:

"Let all the little children come to me. For such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

The pope never liked the idea of limbo anyway and spent a lot of his career as a cardinal writing against it.