" The Pope ends state of limbo after 800 years", comments...?

Question

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/23wlimbo23.xml

imacatholic2 -

Thanks for your time.

Is it not the case that the baptismal regeneration "proof text" of Mark 16:15 - 16 is not found in the best manuscripts & is generally reckoned by scholars to be a later addition to the gospel account ?

In regard to limbo never being an official teaching of Catholicism -

There are many (unbiblical) "concepts" & practices in Catholicism which, while not being "official" teachings of the organisation, are nonetheless very much part of Roman Catholic thought & life. The unbiblical "concept" of limbo being one such example.

I suggest that in practice, many of the so - called laity often make no distinction between official teaching and such "concepts" as limbo, subscribing to both in thought and practice.

Keichi -

Thanks for your time.

I agree with you regarding the concepts of purgatory and limbo. Both are unbiblical, according to my understanding of the Bible.

However, I must disagree with your statement that "we need not worry what happens to us after death".

Hebrews 9:27 - "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment"

Matthew 10:28 - "And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in Gehenna." (Recovery Version)

Answer 1

It just shows that they were lying in the first place. - Doctrine of Demons or Apostates.

Answer 2

False religion has left many confused as to the whereabouts and condition of the dead. Heaven, hell, purgatory, Limbo—these and various other destinations range from being incomprehensible to being downright terrifying. The Bible, on the other hand, tells us that the dead are unconscious; they are in a condition best compared to sleep. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10; John 11:11-14)

Thus, we need not worry about what happens to us after death, any more than we worry when we see someone sleeping soundly. Jesus spoke of a time when "all those in the memorial tombs" would "come out" to renewed life on a paradise earth.—John 5:28, 29; Luke 23:43.

Answer 3

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 4

He didn't end it. Limbo was NEVER an official teaching of the church. There were many who believed in it and theologians who believed in it...but it was not dogma. The Pope only reiterated this and basically said that the souls of the unborn or those that die as unbaptized infants may be in heaven. The reality is...we just don't know. We can only know that God is loving and that where ever these souls are would be where a loving God would have them.

Answer 5

Old news.

Answer 6

800 years with your knees bent backwards like that?

That must be some kind of World's Record!

Answer 7

about time I do not see how any one every believed in it to start with.

Answer 8

I'm in limbo on this one.

Answer 9

One down, three more to go.

Answer 10

the rent must of cost to mutch