Editing Limbo (section)

==In other denominations and religions==

[[File:Comparison of Other Worlds.png|thumb|Comparison of Other-wordly places in Christianity and Islam]]
[[File:Follower of Jheronimus Bosch Christ in Limbo.jpg|thumb|''Christ in Limbo'' ({{circa}} 1575) by an anonymous follower of [[Hieronymus Bosch]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christ in Limbo |url=http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/79340/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection |language=en}}</ref>]]

=== Judaism ===
While Jewish sources are conflicted about what happens to individuals after they die, the concept of limbo does not arise. Furthermore, even the conception of Hell in Judaism is presented as a temporary stage, typically transpiring over a short period of time.<ref>[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/heaven-and-hell-in-jewish-tradition/ Rose, O. N. (n.d.). "Heaven and Hell in Jewish Tradition". ''My Jewish Learning''. Accessed 23 January 2024.]</ref> According to [[Talmud]], the judgment of the wicked in [[Gehenna]] lasts for twelve months.<ref>[https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.33b.7?ven=William_Davidson_Edition_-_English&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en BT Shab. 33b].</ref> This teaching is attributed to [[Rabbi Akiva]] (50-135 AD).<ref>[https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Eduyot.2.10?lang=bi Mishnah Eduyot 2:10.]</ref>

===Christianity===

====Protestant and Eastern Orthodox====

Neither the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] nor [[Protestantism]] accepts the concept of a limbo of infants;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/limbo3.htm |title=Limbo: Recent statements by the Catholic Church, and Protestant views |website=Religioustolerance.org}}</ref> but, while not using the expression "Limbo of the Patriarchs", the Eastern Orthodox Church lays much stress on the resurrected Christ's action of liberating [[Adam and Eve]] and other righteous figures of the [[Old Testament]], such as [[Abraham]] and [[David]], from Hades (see [[Harrowing of Hell]]).

Some Protestants have a similar understanding of those who died as believers prior to the crucifixion of Jesus residing in a place that is not Heaven, but not Hell. The doctrine holds that Hades has two "compartments", one an unnamed place of torment, the other named "Abraham's bosom". [[Luke 16]]:19–16:26 speaks of a chasm fixed between the two which cannot be crossed. Those in the unnamed "compartment" have no hope, and will ultimately be consigned to hell. Those in Abraham's bosom are those of whom it is written of Jesus, "When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives" ([[Ephesians 4]]:8), quoting [[Psalm 68]]:18). These individuals, the captives, now reside with God in Heaven. Both "Compartments" still exist, but Abraham's bosom is now empty, while the other chamber is not, according to this doctrine.

====Nontrinitarian====

[[Latter-day Saints]] teach that "there is a space between death and the resurrection of the body{{nbsp}}[...] a state of the soul in happiness or in misery until the time{{nbsp}}[...] that the dead shall come forth, and be reunited, both soul and body, and be brought to stand before God, and be judged according to their works."<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/40?id=p21#p21 Alma 40:21] See [[Spirit world (Latter Day Saints)]]</ref> It is also taught that "all who have died without a knowledge of [the] gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God.".<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/137.7?lang=eng D&C 137:7] See [[Baptism for the Dead]]</ref>

[[Jehovah's Witnesses]], [[Christadelphians]], and others have taught that the [[soul sleep|dead are unconscious]] (or even nonexistent), awaiting their destiny on [[Judgment Day]].

===Zoroastrianism===

The [[Zoroastrian]] concept of ''[[hamistagan]]'' is similar to Limbo. Hamistagan is a neutral state in which a soul that was neither good nor evil awaits [[Judgment Day]].

===Islam===
In [[Islam]], which denies the existence of original sin in totality, the concept of Limbo exists as {{transliteration|ar|[[Barzakh]]}}, the state that exists after death, prior to the day of resurrection. During this period, sinners are punished and the adequately purified rest in comfort. Children, however, are exempt from this stage, as they are regarded as innocent and are automatically classed as Muslims (despite religious upbringing). After death, they go directly to Heaven, where they are cared for by Abraham.<ref>[http://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_9_88.php Al-Bukhary, Volume 9, Book 88, Number 171]</ref> According to [[Christian Louis Lange]], Islam also possesses a {{transliteration|ar|al-aʿrāf}} (cf. Q.7:46) "a residual place or limbo" situated between heaven and hell where there is "neither punishment nor reward".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lange|first1=Christian|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.7|title=Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions|publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]]|year=2016|isbn=978-90-04-30121-4|editor=Christian Lange|page=14|language=en|chapter=Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies|jstor=10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.7 |ref=CLLHiIT}}</ref>

===Greek mythology===

In Classical [[Greek mythology]], the section of [[Hades]] known as the [[Fields of Asphodel]] were a realm much resembling Limbo, to which the vast majority of people who were held to have deserved neither the [[Elysium|Elysian Fields]] (Heaven) nor [[Tartarus]] (Hell) were consigned for eternity.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

===Buddhism===

In [[Buddhism]], ''[[Bardo]]'' ([[Sanskrit]]: {{transliteration|sa|antarabhāva}}) is sometimes described as similar to limbo. It is an intermediate state in which the recently deceased experiences various phenomena before being reborn in another state, including heaven or hell. According to [[Mahāyāna Buddhism]], the [[arhat]] must ultimately embrace the path of the [[bodhisattva]], despite having reached [[Enlightenment in Buddhism|enlightenment]]. The [[Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra]] states that an arhat obtains a {{transliteration|sa|samādhikāya}} ({{gloss|rapture-body}}) and is reborn in a lotus in a transitory state of existence, unable to awaken for a whole eon. This is likened to a person intoxicated who must spend a certain period of time before becoming sober.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Verrill |first1=Wayne |title=The Yogini's Eye: Comprehensive Introduction to Buddhist Tantra |date=2012 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781477150443 |page=68}}</ref>