Scott Bushey
Puritanboard Commissioner
Originally posted by WrittenFromUtopia
It's quite simple Gabriel; The scriptures do not state that sex is the seal of the marriage covenant. You have been presented with a number of examples of people whom were married and had not consumated that relationship physically.
Yes, it is simple, but you are making it complicated. Just because they are married does not necessarily entail that there marriage has been sealed or consummated. Just because one is baptized, it does not necessarily entail that they are saved or forgiven of their sins; the seal of the Holy Spirit and regeneration is required before it is fully consummated.
Thats not what your WCF states:
Ch 28
I. Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,[1] not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church;[2] but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,[3] of his ingrafting into Christ,[4] of regeneration,[5] of remission of sins,[6] and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life.[7] Which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his church until the end of the world.[8]
1. Matt. 28:19
2. I Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27-28
3. Rom. 4:11; Col. 2:11-12
4. Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:5
5. John 3:5; Titus 3:5
6. Mark 1:4; Acts 2:38; 22:16
7. Rom. 6:3-4
8. Matt. 28:19-20