"No limbo? In the name of St. Bob Marley, say it isn't so, mon!"
Posted on 10/09/2006 8:53:29 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Edited on 10/09/2006 9:00:42 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
To Catholics of generations past, baptism wasn't something to be deferred until a convenient time, because the souls of infants who died without it were thought to be consigned to something other than heaven. Limbo.
Not quite heaven, not nearly hell, it was regarded as a place of eternal happiness that fell just short of paradise, reserved for unbaptized children and righteous souls who lived before Christ.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
My thoughts exactly.
Yes, indeed, Luther figured this out (more than) four centuries ago (I'm sure you didn't mean 'decades'), merely by reading the Holy Scriptures and having no cause to invent imaginary doctrines. What a concept!
**What exactly was Luther doing in 1966, anyway, and where was he doing it?!?**
LOL! Good catch!
They erase your hard drive, you're out ~ gone ~ hasta la vista baby ~ ain't home no mo'.
That's not exactly the popular concept of "Hell" ~ and to be quite frank about it, the popular concept of "Hell" is more than vaguely reminescent of "The Demon Realm" of Hindu belief.
It certainly does.
I saw people dancing it in our building lobby last week during FallFest.
Just some of the Scripture that supports the concept of Purgatory:
PURGATORY
Lk 12:58-59; 1 Cor 3:15; Mt 5:25-26 ... temporary agony.
Heb 12:6-11 ... God’s painful discipline.
Mt 12:32 ... no forgiveness ... nor in the age to come.
1 Pet 3:18-20 ... might be purgatory (limbo?).
1 Pet 4:6 ... preached to the dead.
Rev 21:27 ... nothing unclean shall enter heaven.
Heb 12:23 ... souls in heaven are perfect.
Col 1:24; 2 Sam 12:13-14 ... “extra” suffering.
2 Mac 12:43-46 ... sacrifice for the dead.
2 Tim 1:15-18 ... prayer for Onesiphorus for “that Day.”
1 Jn 5:14-17 ... mortal/venial sins
LOL
Perhaps he was in limbo...doing the limbo.
There have been congregations of believers since the days of the Apostles, almost 300 years before there was any Pope or Roman Catholic Church, who never were confused about this, and never had to figure this out. They knew what Paradise was in Luke ch. 16, and didn't need a sinner in a fancy robe on a fancy throne to tell them whether there was anything like "Limbo."
When will the pope ask his theologians to get around to discussing the relevance of a pope.
This journalist has not done his homework.
Pope to announce limbo does not exist
Vatican City: Pope Keeps Limbo in Limbo, for Now
Concept of Limbo "no longer to explain the eternal fate of unbaptized babies"
John 3:16 doesn't seem to mention baptism.
bump
And Luther was wrong. What the title of this article implies is not really what is happening.
Secular journalists ---- I'm sure you get the drift. Read the links above -- it's been in the religion forum for weeks!
"No limbo? In the name of St. Bob Marley, say it isn't so, mon!"
**Yes, indeed, Luther figured this out (more than) four centuries ago (I'm sure you didn't mean 'decades'), merely by reading the Holy Scriptures and having no cause to invent imaginary doctrines. What a concept!**
But it is supported in Holy Scripture. Think about the passages I referenced.
Actually it more than likely derives from Zoroastrian beliefs with a little Hellenic beliefs such as Tartarus thrown in.
Luther did invent imaginary doctrines:
1) Sola scriptura
2) Sola fide
Neither is found in scripture. He also cut books from the Bible (both Old Testament and New).
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