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Offline epiphany

Re: Adults In Limbo
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2022, 01:31:20 AM »
I was taught limbo was only used before the the resurrection and ascension and is now closed. 
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Offline Nadir

Re: Adults In Limbo
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2022, 05:27:37 AM »
Quote from: epiphany on September 22, 2022, 01:31:20 AM
I was taught limbo was only used before the the resurrection and ascension and is now closed.
Wow! Where and by whom were you taught that?
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Adults In Limbo
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2022, 05:40:50 AM »
Quote from: epiphany on September 22, 2022, 01:31:20 AM
I was taught limbo was only used before the the resurrection and ascension and is now closed.
I can't remember any sources now...

But I do remember reading from solid sources that there is a Catholic traditional passed down that hell has various layers (probably where Dante got his idea to write his book).  The top layer of hell is a place where those go who were "just" in the sense that they never committed a mortal sin but who never received sanctifying grace.  In this layer of hell there is no pain of body but only the pain of the absence of the presence of God.

In my mind I have assumed that this would be the place where not only unbaptized babies but any naturally virtuous pagan or protestant would go who hadn't become Catholic before his death.

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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Adults In Limbo
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2022, 06:58:08 AM »
Quote from: epiphany on September 22, 2022, 01:31:20 AM
I was taught limbo was only used before the the resurrection and ascension and is now closed.

Well, certainly that was true of the so-called "Limbo of the Fathers".  We know that there still is a Limbo, however, as infants who die unbaptized go there.
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Offline epiphany

Re: Adults In Limbo
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2022, 07:00:05 AM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on September 22, 2022, 06:58:08 AM
We know that there still is a Limbo, however, as infants who die unbaptized go there.
How do we know that?
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