May

10

As a previous member of the Catholic Church, and a Mormon now for more than half of my life, I can’t avoid being very intrigued with this announcement by the Catholic Church.

ABC news report:

Pope Benedict XVI has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday that says there were “serious” grounds to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven.

Although Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized are with original sin and thus excluded from heaven, the Church has no formal doctrine on the matter. Theologians, however, have long taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, a state commonly called limbo, but without being in communion with God….

(The document) stressed, however, that “these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge.”

I am so glad that in the Mormon Church we know for sure that children are saved thanks to the Atonement of Jesus Christ and that they don’t need to go to hell, or to the limbo, because they have not been baptized.

The Book of Mormon clearly explains that

repentance and baptism unto those who are accountable and capable of committing sin; yea, teach parents that they must repent and be baptized, and humble themselves as their little children, and they shall all be saved with their little children.

 

But little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundation of the world; if not so, God is a partial God, and also a changeable God, and a respecter to persons; for how many little children have died without baptism!

Behold I say unto you, that he that supposeth that little children need baptism is in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; for he hath neither faith, hope, nor charity; wherefore, should he be cut off while in the thought, he must go down to hell.


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