blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
1Co 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.
I was just wondering what everybody thought about this passage. What exactly do the words sanctified and holy mean? Are they the same thing? Do they have anything to do with moral holiness, or is it something different.
Here's a hypothetical, that seems to happen fairly often. Let's say a father gets saved, but God doesn't see fit to save the wife or the children. The wife and children want nothing to do with the father's God and, because of the father's growing relationship with God, a wedge on some levels is put between the father and the rest of the family. At times, mostly with the wife, there's a jeolousy and almost an antagonistic attitude that develops.
How does 1 Corinthians 7:14 relate to this hypothetical? Is being holy and being sanctified different from moral holiness and Christian sanctification? Is the holiness here different from the holiness spoken of later in the chapter?
1Co 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit:
I was just wondering what everybody thought about this passage. What exactly do the words sanctified and holy mean? Are they the same thing? Do they have anything to do with moral holiness, or is it something different.
Here's a hypothetical, that seems to happen fairly often. Let's say a father gets saved, but God doesn't see fit to save the wife or the children. The wife and children want nothing to do with the father's God and, because of the father's growing relationship with God, a wedge on some levels is put between the father and the rest of the family. At times, mostly with the wife, there's a jeolousy and almost an antagonistic attitude that develops.
How does 1 Corinthians 7:14 relate to this hypothetical? Is being holy and being sanctified different from moral holiness and Christian sanctification? Is the holiness here different from the holiness spoken of later in the chapter?
1Co 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: