Theologians to ask Pope to suspend limbo

[PaleHorse]

I know you guys will find this news story interesting:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051130/od_nm/pope_limbo_dc

Here is how the news article starts:

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

According to Italian media reports on Tuesday, an international theological commission will advise Pope Benedict to eliminate the teaching about limbo from the Catholic catechism.

The Catholic Church teaches that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, whose name comes from the Latin for "border" or "edge," because they deserve neither heaven nor hell.

Thoughts?

 

[TrustAndObey]

If limbo equaled sleep then I guess they had it right the first time.

 

[SassySDA]

I know you guys will find this news story interesting:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051130/od_nm/pope_limbo_dc

Here is how the news article starts:

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

According to Italian media reports on Tuesday, an international theological commission will advise Pope Benedict to eliminate the teaching about limbo from the Catholic catechism.

The Catholic Church teaches that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, whose name comes from the Latin for "border" or "edge," because they deserve neither heaven nor hell.

Thoughts?

Yeah, I wonder how many days "hell" has left...

 

[Cliff2]

Yeah, I wonder how many days "hell" has left...

(Last night, John Haldane, a professor of philosophy at St Andrews University and a consulter to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture, said that the issue of limbo was "something of a medieval curiosity" that no longer preoccupies people. He said that the reason the Catholic Church was clarifying its position was that people still wrongly perceived heaven as a place and not as a state of being.

"The idea of limbo conjures up the image of God as some kind of government bureaucrat who says to people, not just babies, 'Sorry, you don't have your passport stamped with baptism, you'll have to wait over there'.

"Instead, God's powers are such that He can overcome the issue of Original Sin as He chooses, according to special circumstances." http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2324222005)

This guy thinks that heaven is not a place. Limbo has gone, heaven is not real but a state of being, where does it leave hell?

It has to be on the way out as well.

 

[Windmill]

Yeah, limbo always seemed strange.

 

[reddogs]

Does anyone know how the state of 'Limbo' came into the Catholic catechism in the first place.....

 

[Windmill]

It was probably made up during the dark ages to answer the masses when they asked where the heck their baby has gone.

It was also the place where the good folk of the OT apparently went.

Now that Limbo has been abolished, where do they account for the good people in the OT going? I might ask in their subforum.

 

[GrimLife]

If something is realy there, how can one suspend the teaching of it. sounds like a "I dont believe in the devil so he dosent exist" thing to me.

 

[Adventist Dissident]

so they want to put limbo in limbo. he he he

 

[catlover]

I know you guys will find this news story interesting:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051130/od_nm/pope_limbo_dc

Here is how the news article starts:

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

According to Italian media reports on Tuesday, an international theological commission will advise Pope Benedict to eliminate the teaching about limbo from the Catholic catechism.

The Catholic Church teaches that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, whose name comes from the Latin for "border" or "edge," because they deserve neither heaven nor hell.

Thoughts?

My thoughts are: what's this stuff, I have heard all over CF, "...THE CHURCH has not changed for 2000 years..."

 

[Windmill]

Well, the thing is Limbo was never an official teaching as such. It wasn't heresy, but it wasn't considered scriptual either. It was a theory, a metaphorical place where babies went... but if that is true, then how can the teaching be "suspended"? This Limbo thing is one big mystery to me.

 

[catlover]

Well, the thing is Limbo was never an official teaching as such. It wasn't heresy, but it wasn't considered scriptual either. It was a theory, a metaphorical place where babies went... but if that is true, then how can the teaching be "suspended"? This Limbo thing is one big mystery to me.

If it were in the Catholic catechism it was an official teaching.

 

[Windmill]

Apparently it wasn't, or so the Catholics on here say

 

[GrimLife]

Windmill: its easy! limbo aint real ... why get rid of a teaching if its important and real ? i mean its why no one has distroyed the idea of heaven ... because everyone believes heaven or at least a place of God is real.

Seventh day adventists do not believe in a hell (Edit!!), there for they removed all teachings of this. so basicly i am guessing limbo was similar to hell, it was a quick and easy solution and has now been realised as such and they have decided to correct this "mistake".

Besides i am sure! limbo is not only for babies, i read somewhere that there are many other people that go to limbo.

(Purgatory is where Ghosts come from BOO!)

 

[catlover]

Apparently it wasn't, or so the Catholics on here say

I am confused...I thought the Catachism was the end all be all to RC.

 

[OntheDL]

I am confused...I thought the Catachism was the end all be all to RC.

The pope apparently apologized for the past atrocites during the dark ages. But it still holds the title of corrector of heretics and claim of infallability.

The RC church made many statements to cover her ground, but her core doctrines never change especially the secrete doctrines for the initiated.

 

[Sophia7]

Seventh day adventists do not believe in a hell (Edit!!), there for they removed all teachings of this.

Seventh-day Adventists do believe in hell. We just don't believe that it will be a place of everlasting torture, and we don't believe that it's going on right now. We believe that it will take place at the final judgment and end in the complete destruction of the wicked.