2007-04-26 17:02:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's about time. Incidentally those people who say that limbo was never Catholic doctrine are only half right. It may not have been official doctrine but it was taught as such for hundreds of years.
2007-04-26 17:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
>>How do you feel abougt the Vatican's decision to abolish "LIMBO"?<<
That is not what happened (I know the press has misled many about this.) What happened was the Pope approved a document that stated, "The conclusion of this study is that there are theological and liturgical reasons to HOPE that infants who die without baptism MAY be saved and brought into eternal happiness even if there is not an explicit teaching on this question found in revelation." (emphasis mine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/ts_nm/pope_limbo_dc_2
This is basically the same thing that was said 15 years ago in the Catechism: http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a1.htm#VI
Since we can only HOPE that these babies MAY be saved, it can still be speculated that they go elsewhere -- which is what Limbo is and always was -- theological speculation (not doctrine).
2007-04-27 00:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What nobody seems aware of is Limbo was never Catholic doctrine. It was THEORY (not a teaching) out there that was never accepted or rejected by the Church. Just there all they did was finally say no it is offical we are not going to believe in this.
It is not a change, it was not abolished because it never was actually a part of the Church teachings
2007-04-27 00:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limbo was never an official teaching of the Church. It was more of a theory left up to the individual to decide for themselves on the matter. If the Vatican says it isn't true then it isn't true.
God bless,
Stanbo
2007-04-27 00:09:45 · answer #4 · answered by Stanbo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not bible based, so therefore I do not believe it exists. But man made ideas come and go, but the Word of God will always remain. When we die, our bodies return to dust and our spirits return to God in heaven or go to hell, period. This is bible based. There is nothing inbetween, sorry. I believe in the inerrant word of God, not traditions in some religions. I was raised Catholic, but because of some of the man made ideas such as limbo, purgatory, praying to Mary, confessing to a priest (that by the way is no longer necessary), I do not advocate a "religion", but a relationship with Jesus. I have Faith in Jesus. I'm not downing Catholicism as I do believe it teaches truth, but none of the above is biblical. We are only to worship God/Jesus etc. My opinion
2007-04-27 00:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the Church changes its mind about what God "really" thinks... I doubt that it changes God's actual intentions for us, but it does mean the the Church admits that it got it wrong for centuries, and is not some inspired, infallible body of divinity.
The announcement of the Pope that the Church no longer believes that unbaptised infants go to Limbo, but actually go to heaven, just five days ago ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-04-20-popelimbo_N.htm ) does not change the Will of God, but only the Interpretation of Man.
If there is a divine God... what else has the Church got wrong? And why on earth should I follow it?
2007-04-27 00:07:19 · answer #6 · answered by The Oracle 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well who gave them the right to play God in the first place?
I've always believed babies souls/spirits go back to Heaven with God.Your not accountable for sin until you know what it is/that your doing it and it is wrong and have the choice to change.We are not all born into original sin-we are born into a sinful world and learn how to sin.
Just like with "confession" only God can forgive your sins-not some man.
2007-04-27 00:12:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really do not understand the Catholic Church because how could they abolish something that did not exist in the first place?
The Bible says that children are a blessing from God. When a baby dies it goes back to God.
2007-04-27 00:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by zoril 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in the earthly plane, which I am tethered to until I die and my ties are cut...
I'm not too worried about it till I have to jump the gap between here and heaven that limbo left behind.
2007-04-27 00:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Ashley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope just said it is and was a hypothesis and never a defined doctrine. That's all.
It is not in the Catechism of the Catholic Church published 15 years ago.
2007-04-27 00:06:15 · answer #10 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋