So they're stuck there for all eternity?
As far as I know, but Limbo is described as a pretty decent place. There's fields and a castle, and, um, other things....
(It's been a while since I read The Divine Comedy, I should re-read it.)
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
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juliana - Jan 29, 2009 10:39:10 am PST #9523 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 11:00:20 am PST #9524 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As far as I know, but Limbo is described as a pretty decent place. There's fields and a castle, and, um, other things....
Huh. Although that means when you die, you could end up in Heaven, Hell, or the place that's pretty decent.
So what do you have to do to be a Righteous Pagan? If you're exposed to the Gospel but reject Jesus anyway, do you lose the Righteous Pagan option?
Emily - Jan 29, 2009 11:00:33 am PST #9525 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Yeah, it's only technically Hell. I mean, Buffalo and NYC are both parts of New York, right?
Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2009 11:06:17 am PST #9526 of 10000
brillig
If you're exposed to the Gospel but reject Jesus anyway, do you lose the Righteous Pagan option?
Yeah, rejection of Jesus pretty much ruins your Limbo qualifications. And no amount of dancing will save you.
brenda m - Jan 29, 2009 11:08:58 am PST #9527 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
How low can you go? Lower than that, apparently.
Emily - Jan 29, 2009 11:10:06 am PST #9528 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, last class of the day, how I have grown to loathe and fear you. Every initiative falls apart under the weight of your apathy and anarchy.
Curses.
Trudy Booth - Jan 29, 2009 11:22:55 am PST #9529 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Trudy, that link took me to "Stars Ups and Downs"
Agh! It woulnd't link directly.
Up and Down star #22 is his missus. And he thinks she looks lovely both ways.
Gris - Jan 29, 2009 12:42:17 pm PST #9530 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Gris, please know that didn't intend to be a lecture, though it sounded like one.
Never thought you were. If I came off defensive, not intended. I appreciate getting wake-up calls, even when I'm all like "Yeah, cool, now I'm gonna go back to sleep for another while, k?" And it forces me to really analyze whether it makes sense, which is nice since I keep coming up "yes."
I'm glad Shir's sister is home!
The religion discussion is interesting, but my brain is WAY too much in the off mode to contribute or even boggle. I spent my day trying to work out our new class schedule for next semester.
Most math isn't so bad. 4-d logic puzzles with an uncertain number of constraints (which this basically boils down to) are hard. I'll give Barbie that one.
Shir - Jan 29, 2009 1:11:12 pm PST #9531 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh, sis is back in the army by now. But she was at *my* place, where I could really make her feel comfortable. And we talked for about 90 minutes before she collapsed to sleep, and she even let me hug her and pet her hair few time. Big win, by our book.
And now, really, I'm off to bed.
billytea - Jan 29, 2009 1:59:04 pm PST #9532 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
While I obviously don't know if it's existentially true, I love what C.S. Lewis said on this topic: "Is it not frightfully unfair that this new life should be confined to people who have heard of Christ and been able to believe in Him? But the truth is God has not told us what His arrangements about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him."
Yeah. The Bible says a lot about salvation. Peter said repent and be baptised, Paul said it was about faith in Jesus, James said faith without works is dead, Matthew 25 mentions only works and rejects faith, John says no one comes to Jesus except God draws them.
Pretty much any church trying to parse the Bible's position on salvation does much the same thing: assume the passage(s) they find most congenial are clear and simple and really mean what they say, and interpret the other passages to fit that framework.
C. S. Lewis, I think, is quite sensibly cautious in treating the matter as neither clear nor simple.