Non baptized babies just go to limbo?

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I didn’t say it wasn’t but it would be same if a thousand years from now the lion the witch and the wardrobe became unofficially official doctrine.

Lest to the masses.
 
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Divine Comedy strikes again.

This is like the fifth time I’ve said this on this board that a majority of ‘comon’ belief in the after life comes from those books.

Unbaptized good people including babies chill out in limbo. Its not a torture chamber like most of hell in the book but its a far cry from heaven. If anything it invokes the idea of a waiting room or auditorium where you hang out with cool people.

Just not cool enough to go heaven cause not catholic.

You also reinforce this imagery when you say “He descended into Hell, on the third day he rose again.”

The idea that no one was allowed into heaven and had to chill in limbo right up until Christ sacrificed himself. Ergo he had to go get everyone from the old testament who should have gone to heaven and hand out passes.

Limbo isn’t church doctrine, its a… way of explaining some spiritual discrepancies.

I wouldn’t dwell on it.
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A bit of an exaggeration. Limbo didn’t originate on the Divine Comedy. While it’s not a universal doctrine of the Catholic faith, a number of the Church Fathers (much prior to the Divine Comedy) did teach it.
 
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The idea that no one was allowed into heaven and had to chill in limbo right up until Christ sacrificed himself. Ergo he had to go get everyone from the old testament who should have gone to heaven and hand out passes.
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That seems a bit off but don’t worry, Mel Gibson is making a movie about this so we’ll have a better idea of what happened. Stay tuned.
 
Eh. I love C.S. Lewis but he technically was Anglican.
Maybe we can go with the Lord of the Rings or something by G.K. Chesterton instead? 😁
 
Theres different levels to hell, pretty sure this is accepted by the Church. The rich man suffered immensely while Lazarus resided peacefully in Abrahams bosom, yet both were in hell.
 
Really?
I always thought Lazarus was in heaven.
I thought this was just used in an allegorical sense in the story. I mean that is all it was. A story. Jesus told it to make a point. We don’t even know if either of these people in the story ever existed.
 
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No one was in heaven until after Christ’s death. Remember the Apostle’s Creed:

…born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
 
Hell here isn’t really a good translation at least in English.
Pope Francis should change this one before he messes with the Lords Prayer. Then again many say descended into the dead. The truth is the souls didn’t go to hell just for dying. The gates of heaven were closed but it was more of like an abyss.
 
We are not naturally going to Heaven. This is a supernatural goal. Hence we need supernatural help, which is commonly found in baptism.
The limbo of the infants, which I find compelling enough, is a place of utmost natural happiness.
We are not “owed” Heaven.

I should note that limbo isn’t strictly a teaching of the Church, but was a widely believed theological opinion; it’s belief has waned in the years.
 
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They weren’t baptized so why do they get to go to heaven but just because someone doesn’t baptize their kids they aren’t saved?
 
1 Peter 3: 21

Baptism is the normative means of Salvation. God may provide Salvation to infants in ways that are not revealed to us, this is why we simply trust God.
 
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