Limbo? Too Complex, so says the Church

Mr. Clutch · Dec 1, 2005

glynch said:

One of my fond memories of Catholic school in the 50's is one tenet with regard to limbo. Currently many Evangelicals question whether Cahtolics are "Christian" because they haven't been so-called "born again".

I always get a laugh out of this by remembering how we were taught that the Catholic Church was the one true Church and the best a Protestant could hope for was limbo, not heaven as they had not accepted the one true church. This was in the days before the Vatican II Council and Ecumenicalism.

Funny story. One of my old neighbors. Nicest family guy you could meet. For years he helped the old lady next door do errands, take out the trash etc.
One day she started to cry that she was so sad that he was going to Hell, since he hadn't accepted Jesus Christ. Mike is Jewish.
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Of course, the Church no longer teaches those things.

Mr. Clutch · Dec 1, 2005

Cesar^Geronimo said:

The fact that you could even have these legalistic conversations about Catholic doctrine is what led me away from the Catholic church to one that gets it's truth solely from the Bible. It took me many years and many time through the Bible to "sift out" the things in Catholic doctrine that just did not seem to reflect what the Bible says.
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To me it is something that attracts me to the Church. I have had debates with fundamentalists and I feel they are just too simplistic. They just come out with "It's in the Bible!" sometimes.

twhy77 · Dec 1, 2005

Mr. Clutch said:

To me it is something that attracts me to the Church. I have had debates with fundamentalists and I feel they are just too simplistic. They just come out with "It's in the Bible!" sometimes.
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Any religion is going to have to interpret words from scripture....Why not take the interpretation that has been through the proverbial ringer?

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