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Side-note:
Limbo
The concept begins with St. Augustine's (354-430) statement that
unbaptised infants go to Hell. Scholastics and later
theologians speculated that these were not damned but eternally deprived of the Beatific
Vision. No council has define Limbo. The most generally acceptable theory regarding unbaptised infants today stems from the notion of a final fundamental option. This makes God's salvific will truly and
effectively universal and it makes Christ's death for all truly operative for everyone.