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Originally Posted by armourbearer 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. | In the case of a marriage where the wife is a believer and the husband is not, is the covenant husband baptized provided he is not an outright scoffer?
__________________ Dan Member, Soaring Oaks Presbyterian (PCA) www.soaringoaks.org Northern California The duty of a theologian is, not to please the ear with empty sounds, but to confirm the conscience by teaching things which are true, certain and profitable.
John Calvin, 1559
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