[Silentgypsy]

Limbo is part of the Roman Catholic belief system. I don’t know if other religious groups hold the belief that an unbaptized person’s soul is barred from entering heaven.

[21twelve]

Oh - got it. That makes sense then from a Catholic view point. Thanks! I know that for many mothers that have aborted a child - it comes back to “haunt” them as well.

[zerosix]

As a professing Baptist, I accept our command from the Lord himself, once you/we have repented of our sins to God and prayed to be forgiven, asking Jesus to come in and be Lord of your life, you/we are to be baptized as our public confession of faith.

Our Salvation and entrance into heaven, is not conditioned upon that baptism, however, but upon our repentance and prayer for Jesus to be Lord of our life.

We are given a glimpse of that baptism as not being our ticket into heaven to reside for all eternity with God, by the thief on the cross beside the dying Christ, who proclaimed that surely Jesus was the Son of God himself. Our Lord then telling the forgiven thief that, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.”

So yes, we are commanded to be baptized but we know that isn’t always possible as in death bed conversions and I might also add, foxhole conversions.