Limbo and Rainbow Bridge

[Teeliumtrozzle]

I know that Heaven is where those who love and serve God go, hell is where the evil go, and Purgatory is where sinners who need time to repent go.But I cannot decide weather to believe in Limbo and Rainbow Bridge.

I sort of believe in Limbo, and I think it is a nice, peaceful place, like a meadow, where atheists, heathens, and Pagans are sent.I certainly cannot accept the idea that they go to hell, just for not believing, and I therefore think Limbo makes perfect sense, and believe they go to Limbo.Please tell me, DOES Limbo exist, and if it doesnt, give evidence why not, and tell me where they go.

Untill recently, I believed animals also went to Limbo, but then I heard something about Rainbow Bridge.I don’t really know anything about this place, and there doesnt seem to be evidence it exists, except maybe the animals would like a special place to themselves?..I have developed a theory- maybe its a bridge between Heaven and Limbo, that can be used by people in Heaven to visit the animals and atheists?Please tell me about Rainbow Bridge and Limbo, and weather they exist.

 

[water]

Please tell me, DOES Limbo exist, and if it doesnt, give evidence why not, and tell me where they go.

Please tell me about Rainbow Bridge and Limbo, and weather they exist.

Recently, there was some topic on Limbo, and we would like to think that God is mercy and in fact, Jesus loves kids. We hope that with God’s great mercy toward unborn child, they would go to Heaven.

“Rainbow Bridge” - this thing came out of a poem.

Whether both exists or not, we don’t know, but “Rainbow Bridge” is not what I want to think about and don’t want to develop any theory about it.

 

[Mirdath]

Who’s to say we heathen won’t end up for a spin in Purgatory and thence to paradise, if we are sincerely trying to do the best we can and merely lack the correct belief? Limbo isn’t really necessary.

The only rainbow bridge I’ve heard of is Bifrost, the bridge to Asgard.

 

[mary_bobo]

The Rainbow Bridge is a story about pets who die. If you look on the web, I am sure you will find it. Crux of the story is that when a pet dies, it crosses the rainbow bridge where there is a field to play in and all sorts of good things. But he/she misses the human who was left behind. One day, the pet sees someone coming to the rainbow bridge, and lo and behold, it is their human. The pet runs to the human and helps him/her across the bridge. Sweet story.

 

[Andruschak]

II sort of believe in Limbo, and I think it is a nice, peaceful place, like a meadow, where atheists, heathens, and Pagans are sent.I certainly cannot accept the idea that they go to hell, just for not believing, and I therefore think Limbo makes perfect sense, and believe they go to Limbo.Please tell me, DOES Limbo exist, and if it doesnt, give evidence why not, and tell me where they go.
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Here is an excellent document on the current status of Limbo. Please read carefully

penitents.org/limbo.htm

And here is one of THOUSANDS of web sites concerning The Rainbow Bridge Poem

indigo.org/rainbowbridge_ver2.html

 

[jmm08]

Here is an excellent document on the current status of Limbo. Please read carefully

penitents.org/limbo.htm

Very similar language at the vatican web site
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html

It is clear that the traditional teaching on this topic has concentrated on the theory of limbo, understood as a state which includes the souls of infants who die subject to original sin and without baptism, and who, therefore, neither merit the beatific vision, nor yet are subjected to any punishment, because they are not guilty of any personal sin. This theory, elaborated by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the dogmatic definitions of the Magisterium, even if that same Magisterium did at times mention the theory in its ordinary teaching up until the Second Vatican Council. It remains therefore a possible theological hypothesis. However, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), the theory of limbo is not mentioned. Rather, the Catechism teaches that infants who die without baptism are entrusted by the Church to the mercy of God, as is shown in the specific funeral rite for such children. The principle that God desires the salvation of all people gives rise to the hope that there is a path to salvation for infants who die without baptism (cf. CCC, 1261), and therefore also to the theological desire to find a coherent and logical connection between the diverse affirmations of the Catholic faith: the universal salvific will of God; the unicity of the mediation of Christ; the necessity of baptism for salvation; the universal action of grace in relation to the sacraments; the link between original sin and the deprivation of the beatific vision; the creation of man “in Christ”.