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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Where will unbaptized children (and aborted babies) go on the day of the Last Judgment?

Where will unbaptized children (and aborted babies) go on the day of the Last Judgment?

Update:

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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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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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).

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    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 decade ago

    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.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    Heaven. Jesus said, let the children come to me and do not hamper them. The greatest in the kingdom of heaven is the children. Matt. 18:1-6

    Source(s): Matthew 18
  • 5 years ago

    Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 shows a deceased infant's physique returns to the dirt, and its spirit returns to God who gave it. you attempt to "decide" God with the aid of flimsy humanistic reasoning. God is in simple terms .. and He is standard with of greater beneficial than any human beings that toddlers and youthful little ones have not reached an age of accountability for something. That applies no count number no count number if a toddler is "baptized" or no longer, and it is a silly custom that imagines any infant believes it has advance right into a born back Christian convert. they are meant to be below the non secular conceal of their mom and dad until they attain self-accountability, yet there is too many mom and dad who've deserted that accountability.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I must supplement Jed S or be racked with guilt :

    1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,"64 allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.

    Catechism of the Catholic Church

    http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c1a1.htm#1261

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Baptism does not save a person. All children under the age of understanding are with the Lord.

  • 1 decade ago

    There is an age of accountability, to be condemned in sin one has to be aware of what sin is...

    An aborted child hasn't commited any sins..

    We are not condemned by Adam and Eve's sin, but by our own commited sins.

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