Now that the Catholic church has officially done away with the "Limbo" doctrine....?

Question

Wouldn't that mean that infant baptism is unnecessary?

Answer 1

That is an excellent question and is certainly a logical extension of the its elimination.

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=200

Answer 2

No.

+ Limbo +

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.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.htm#1261

+ Infant Baptism +

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called."

Infant baptism is not a new thing. There are non-biblical documented sources starting in the second century telling of infant Baptism.

There are even several passages in the Bible where whole households were baptized. This would include everyone who lived there, men, women, children, and infants.

Acts 16:15, "After she and her household had been baptized"

Acts 16:33, "then he and all his family were baptized at once."

Acts 18:8, "came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized."

1 Corinthians 1:16, "I baptized the household of Stephanas"

St. Paul wrote that baptism has replaced circumcision (Col 2:11-12), and in Judaism circumcision was performed primarily on infants.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.htm#1250

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Pastor Billy says: find me the official Catholic document that lists limbo as a dogmatic doctrine. Limbo was never an official doctrine it was only a theory. Secondly doing away with it doesn't mean anyones baptism is unnecessary regardless of age. I mean look at your logic why stop at infants?

Answer 4

um i dont know anything about the limbo doctrine, but i never figured out what was necessary about infant baptism in the first place

Answer 5

infant baptism is more so a promise to the parents and the church community to raise the child "properly" (for lack of a better word). It really has very little to do with the child's own personal salvation.

Answer 6

>>Now that the Catholic church has officially done away with the "Limbo" doctrine....?<<

Limbo was never a doctrine. It was, and remains, theological speculation. You can order a copy of the document here:
https://secure.catholicnews.com/originsdocs/order.php

Answer 7

No. Christ Said in the Gospels, "Suffer the little children to come unto me."

Although the Church did away with Limbo, the Church still teaches Purgatory which is pretty much the same as Limbo.

Answer 8

The thing is you have to question if even the higher ups don't know what the bible means then maybe there is something wrong. And the answer is that King Constantine changed so many thing in the original New Testament, added Paul's teachings who never even met Christ and omitted everything to do with reincarnation, karma, vegetarianism. He made added hell being eternal and took out so many years of Christs life. IT is all in the original New Testament The Gospel OF the Nazirenes. Google gospelofthenazirenes.co For the original teachings of Jesus (Yesuah)

Answer 9

Oops I missed that. What document did away with limbo? P.S I don't believe in it, but I work for the Catholic Church and wondered.

Answer 10

Infant baptism is not found in the Bible anyway.