Is it because he's too old to get under the limbo stick anymore?
2007-10-17 08:41:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hope: It keeps getting deleted.
2007-10-17 08:48:30 · update #1
Unrelated, but my theory is that Pope Benedict is actually the Emperor from Star Wars.
As for Limbo, there are some ideas that even the Catholic Church has had to admit are just too ridiculous to perpetuate. I don't think it was ever quite an official dogma, so they just decided to scuttle it.
2007-10-17 08:47:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 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.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Chruch section 1261: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.htm#1261
With love in Christ.
2007-10-17 16:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it truly is shameful that atheists such as you and Hitchens do no longer tell the reality. yet, nevertheless, what do you care; you haven't any longer have been given a ethical compass to stay by skill of. The Church has in no way infallibly declared a doctrine that there grew to become right into a Limbo. confident, it grew to become into reported and meditated for the time of numerous councils and a great style of Catholics have accompanied St. Augustine's inner maximum authority. although, the Church has constantly affirmed that God's mercy is unfathomable; that we as mere human beings can no longer say for confident how God could take care of the unbaptized. We do be attentive to that there is unique Sin and you may no longer see the beatific ingenious and prescient if one dies in the past baptism, yet we don't be attentive to what God has in save for them. Get your data in the present day. One genuine way is to truly be clinical (without bias) on your examine.
2016-10-12 23:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to the Limbo dance or the place 'Limbo'?
2007-10-17 08:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by hootie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wasn't it because limbo had been cooked up by medieval theologists and it was high time to get rid of it and think a bit further?
So it was past its redemption date.
2007-10-17 08:45:04 · answer #5 · answered by didi 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
...he just made it clearer that this doctrine was not something that everybody had to believe as we do not know what happens to little babies....
The catholic church admits that it does not know what happens to babies - but they DO know what happens to teenagers, adults and old people?
Thats a laugh!!!!!!!
2007-10-17 09:10:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He did not, he just made it clearer that this doctrine was not something that everybody had to believe as we do not know what happens to little babies. It was a theory and nothing more. It was never pronounced as Dogma
2007-10-17 08:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by Midge 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Age was a part of it, but he also has a disadvantage because of his giant hat.
2007-10-17 08:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a dirty dance that would make Patrick Swayze blush.
2007-10-17 08:45:15 · answer #9 · answered by UpChuck 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but that's the problem with the Catholic Church: they make up the rules as they go along.
2007-10-17 08:46:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋