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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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 Posted - 01/11/2008 : 17:43:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by dobryjr
I have stumbled upon an article couple months ago. It was dealing with the idea that babies that were born and didn't reach the age of maturity (7 or so) that they don't go to heaven or hell. Google search returned gibberish including many websites about babies going to heaven and how god is great and all. I am looking for some hard proof from the bible old/new testament that says babies don't go to heaven.
If there is no such thing then sorry to interrupt, but I swear I saw it around the internet. :/
Thanks for any replies.
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No such passage exists.
The dogma of the church discussed this at length. At one time, there was both Limbo and Purgatory. Vatican II ended Limbo and the souls of dead children were then transferred by Holy Writ to Purgatory. A few years ago, the Catholic church abolished Purgatory. No mention was made of where the Holy See deigned to transfer the souls of the children.
It's all just mental masturbation on this subject. No passage in the Bible supports nor denies the dogma. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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| Edited by - Valiant Dancer on 01/11/2008 17:45:55 |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/11/2008 : 20:27:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Vatican II ended Limbo and the souls of dead children were then transferred by Holy Writ to Purgatory. |
Not according to wiki:
| Pope Benedict XVI authorized publication of this document [concerning Limbo], which is not an official expression of the Church's teaching,[21] but only one of the opinions that the Catholic Church does not condemn, allowing them to be held by its members. Media reports that by the document "the Pope closed Limbo"[22] are thus without foundation. (emphasis mine) |
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 01/11/2008 20:27:31 |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/12/2008 : 12:46:42 [Permalink]
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God foiled by Vatican bureaucracy, its like Brazil. Sorry God this form requires a stamp from the Ministry of Information.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Christianity, heaven or hell or neither for babies
