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1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1st thought, sanctified & saved are not the same thing, nor, are they interchangeable.
God sanctified (set apart) the whole Nation of Israel at Mt Sinai. This did not mean every person was automatically saved.
Context of 1 Cor 7:14 marriage, the children & their sanctification & not salvation.
Many of the Believers Paul is speaking to here were Jewish converts, deeply steeped in Mosaic Law.
OT covenant laws were clear. Don't intermarry with the heathen/gentiles. Else your offspring would be unclean/bastards outside covenant seals. (Deut 7:3-4)
The Apostle is explaining to the Jewish converts. Under the New Covenant, a believers Faith supersedes a unbelieving spouse lack there of.
Key context: "Else were your children unclean" (1 Cor 7:14 - C)
The unbelieving husband or wife isn't saved through the Believing partner's faith. However, the children are sanctified & covered by/through the Believing parents Faith.
The covering is dissolved when the child is old enough to understand & choose God for themselves. At this point the child like everyone else (including the unsaved spouse) are saved only by:
Placing their FAITH in the redemptive, sin atoning death, burial & resurrection of Jesus the Christ (also see 1Cor 15:1-4).
Unbelievers Are Condemned
Jn 3:18 But he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Believers Have Eternal Life
Jn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son "hath" everlasting life & he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. Amen
1st thought, sanctified & saved are not the same thing, nor, are they interchangeable.
God sanctified (set apart) the whole Nation of Israel at Mt Sinai. This did not mean every person was automatically saved.
Context of 1 Cor 7:14 marriage, the children & their sanctification & not salvation.
Many of the Believers Paul is speaking to here were Jewish converts, deeply steeped in Mosaic Law.
OT covenant laws were clear. Don't intermarry with the heathen/gentiles. Else your offspring would be unclean/bastards outside covenant seals. (Deut 7:3-4)
The Apostle is explaining to the Jewish converts. Under the New Covenant, a believers Faith supersedes a unbelieving spouse lack there of.
Key context: "Else were your children unclean" (1 Cor 7:14 - C)
The unbelieving husband or wife isn't saved through the Believing partner's faith. However, the children are sanctified & covered by/through the Believing parents Faith.
The covering is dissolved when the child is old enough to understand & choose God for themselves. At this point the child like everyone else (including the unsaved spouse) are saved only by:
Placing their FAITH in the redemptive, sin atoning death, burial & resurrection of Jesus the Christ (also see 1Cor 15:1-4).
Unbelievers Are Condemned
Jn 3:18 But he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Believers Have Eternal Life
Jn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son "hath" everlasting life & he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. Amen
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