Where will unbaptized children (and aborted babies) go on the day of the Last Judgment?
Well the reason why I ask is because everyone is born with original sin. Since the babies haven't committed actual sin, they still have original sin on their soul. The Bible clearly states that only the pure and clean can enter heaven.
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It is not a doctrine of Faith that children dying with original sin only on their soul go to a special place or state called the children’s Limbo. However, it is the common opinion of the theologians. This is based upon the teaching of Pope Innocent III (and the Fathers of the Church) on the effects of baptism, in which he has this to say:
The punishment of original sin is deprivation of the vision of God, but the punishment of actual sin is the torments of everlasting hell. (Maiores Ecclesiae causas, Dz 780).
The state of Limbo is consequently a suffering from the pain of loss, or separation from God, but not of the pain of the senses. As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches (De malo 5, 3), such a pain of loss is compatible with a certain natural happiness. At the last judgment, when the bodies will rise to share in the punishment or reward of heaven or hell, the bodies of those who are in Limbo will also rise. Although separated from God, in which way they share the punishment of the damned in hell, they will not be tormented by remorse nor will they suffer the pain of the sense which the damned suffer forever in hell.
The denial of this common teaching by the heretical council of Pistoia was condemned by Pope Pius VI as "false, rash, injurious to Catholic schools." Here is his description of the erroneous doctrine:
The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable that place of the lower regions (which the faithful generally designate by the name of the limbo of children) in which the souls of those departing with the sole guilt of original sin, are punished with the punishment of the condemned, exclusive of the punishment of fire... (Auctorem Fidei, Dz 1526).
Archangel
I wish I could say all babies and aborted children go to heaven but the Bible does not say that.
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,And in sin my mother conceived me.
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb;They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
It really depends on whether or not they were saved.
A baby in a womb has as much chance for salvation as an adult.
Faith and salvation is a spiritual gift that God gives to anyone He wishes and at any time in their life. A baby has as much a chance for salvation as an adult who may not have the mental capacity to understand the Bible. God is not biased toward anyone and salvation is a gift that comes through God's grace alone.
The Carmelite
Aborted babies are already in heaven.
Unbaptized babies may be baptized by other means than water. there is certainly the baptism of blood (martyrdom) which no babies are capable of since they cannot knowingly offer their lives. But baptism of desire -- born of a parent's anguish at losing a child surely can spiritually baptize the child. In churches where children must wait until they are older but die before going through the actual experience are spiritually baptized by desire. So, too, are those who desire to do good in all things nd simply have not heard the gospel proclaimed -- like those who lived long before Jesus or those who for whatever reasons have not yet heard the Good News. I can also offer all of my pains, joys, sufferings to God to apply to the soul of an unbaptized person as well.
Anonymous
1. Babies are not aborted. That would be murder. A fetus has no ability to sustain life, it is therefore not alive.
2. Unbaptised children go to the exact same place every other soul goes to when thier bodies die and their higher consienceness seperates. The only difference is they spend a lot less time in hell because they have caused no dis-ease.
3. The last day of judgement and I emphasise this is self judgement will take place at Ragonrak. When Earth can no longer sustain life.
Anonymous
Water baptism is a requirement of Israel, not of the Body of Christ, which is God's program in operation today. Water baptism only gets people wet. It does not save anyone. Sorry.
Paul wrote that Christ did not send him to baptize, but to preach the Gospel of the Grace of God. He actually said that he "thanked God" that he did not baptize anyone, save for two men.
Ephesians 4:5 says that there is ONE baptism. 1 Corinthians 12:13 describes this baptism as being when the Holy Ghost baptizes you into the Body of Christ, at the moment that you believe in Christ's finished work on the cross.
As I said, water baptism does not do anything, but get you wet.