My parents sure believed in Limbo, and they said they both hoped to go there. They felt they were not good enough to go to Heaven, but hoped they were good enough to go to Limbo. Not one person ever keeps the commandments. Not one, so I am still left wondering how I am going to bluff my way past God, into Heaven. I think I will have to make it some other way.
Not one person ever keeps the commandments.
That is so true. We all sin. No one can bluff their way past God. But if we are truly sorry when we break any of God’s commandments, we have the assurance that he is a loving and forgiving God. Our Lord is kind and merciful, and will eagerly take us back into His loving arms if we repent and ask for His forgiveness.
I find great consolation in Romans 7.
In verse 15, even Paul admits to doing what he hates. But he ends the chapter with those wonderful words of hope. (By hope, I mean the virtue in which we have confident assurance of the saving grace of God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.)
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 7:24-25
If your parents said that, they misunderstood the meaning of the term "Limbo."
If--IF--the theory of Limbo were true, no baptized person would ever go to Limbo. All baptized people would go to 1) Hell; 2) Heaven; 3) Purgatory, followed by Heaven.