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Old 06-25-2008, 10:36 PM
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I observe that in the one clear example of female baptism -- Lydia -- the representative principle is still operative in the baptism of her household. In keeping with the fulness of New Testament administration, this demonstrates that federalism has not been curtailed, but rather expanded so as to include women where there is no believing male presence.
Please correct if wrong here...so does this mean that if the wife is believing but not the husband, then the wife is the federal head of the household?
Not socially, 1 Pet. 3:1, but ceremonially, 1 Cor. 7:14.
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