Limbo the Law
Dec. 8th, 2005 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningI heard the other day that the Catholic church has changed its teaching about limbo.
Limbo was where for centuries they had said that souls of those who hadn’t had the opportunity to be baptised – but who hadn’t been condemned to hell – would go.
So babies who died at birth; good people who had died before Christ; maybe even unbelievers – they would all go to limbo.
The Vatican has decided that limbo may not exist: that it was a human construct to deal with the somewhat tricky problem of what to do with all these good – but unbaptised – souls. They have said that it is down to God to decide these things, not man, and hence limbo is no longer recognised.
So I am glad they cleared that one up. Limbo is a human construct.
Not like heaven or hell, then.
Limbo was where for centuries they had said that souls of those who hadn’t had the opportunity to be baptised – but who hadn’t been condemned to hell – would go.
So babies who died at birth; good people who had died before Christ; maybe even unbelievers – they would all go to limbo.
The Vatican has decided that limbo may not exist: that it was a human construct to deal with the somewhat tricky problem of what to do with all these good – but unbaptised – souls. They have said that it is down to God to decide these things, not man, and hence limbo is no longer recognised.
So I am glad they cleared that one up. Limbo is a human construct.
Not like heaven or hell, then.