Uhh no? Non-baptized souls go to limbo according to Christian theology.
Except clearly any aborted fetus would immediately go to heaven based on what’s written in the bible. In fact, heaven should be absolutely completely full of dead babies based on miscarriages, stillbirths, etc. if you believe that they get a soul at the moment of conception.
So that logic doesn’t really make sense either. Which is par for the course.
vzq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That depends on which flavor of Christianity you’re looking at, but even the Catholics don’t think they go to Limbo, the pope had an entire study done on it, and the result was “we hope they go to heaven but we don’t know”
A lot of the other denominations don’t subscribe to the original sin shtick, and therefore babies would go to heaven even without being baptized.
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I always loved the “do uncontacted remote tribes that haven’t heard of God or Jesus go to heaven?” question. So far everyone has answered yes. And then you realize that Christians could save everyone, everywhere, forever, just by destroying all their literature, not teaching religion, and letting it die with them. One sacrificial generation and everyone is saved forever.
But they won’t do it because of greed and pride, the core aspects of their belief system.
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Lots of them believe it is written on our hearts and uncontacted tribes have rejected Jesus.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Catholics
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I was juuuuuuust about to explain how making sense isn’t a requirement to them, until I saw your last sentence. Then I knew you already get it.
slickgoat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Actually, nobody goes to heaven when they die (according to the bible). Everyone must wait until judgement day when all the graves, etc, open and we all face judgement at that point. This surprised me when I first learned it because it goes against all the Christian culture I’ve ever been taught and experienced.
So grandma isn’t currently in heaven no matter how good she was.
barsquid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s a huge relief that perhaps my grandparents haven’t seen my embarrassing moments after all.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
and judgement is not “brought back to life just to be sent back immediately”… no, it will be a good span of time to live without evil on the earth…