A State of Limbo

What was our state of existence while in our mother’s womb? Were we “alive”? Great political & theological battles have been fought down through the ages trying to answer such questions. Undoubtedly they will continue to be fought till the end of time, for each generation must decide for itself after having lived a complete existence in this world.

But what of that other world in which we were conceived and our future body was being formed? Where were we, and what was actually occurring? We certainly were alive in some sense, but surely not in the same sense as we were alive when we ceased to be a fetus and became a human baby (and just when does that change occur? At what instant can we declare that one has become the other?). Perhaps “limbo” is the most accurate description for a place between two worlds, but not really of one or the other.