Household Salvation

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It would be very helpful if someone can explain the Church’s teachingbon household salvation. Bible and ccc
citation is very much appreciated. 🙂
 
It would be very helpful if someone can explain the Church’s teachingbon household salvation. Bible and ccc
citation is very much appreciated. 🙂
1 Corinthians 7:16
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17 But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk: and so in all churches I teach.
Haydock Commentary 1 Corinthians 7:16
Verr. 14-16. Is sanctified. The meaning is not that the faith of the husband, or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation: but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith. Ch.

— Sanctification which has different significations, cannot here signify that an infidel is truly and properly sanctified, or justified, by being married to a faithful believer; therefore we can only understand an improper sanctification, so that such an infidel, though not yet converted, need not be looked upon as unclean, but in the dispositions of being converted, especially living peaceably together, and consenting that their children be baptized, by which they are truly sanctified.

— How knowest thou, O wife? &c. These words seem to give the reason, why they may part, when they cannot live peaceably, and when there is little prospect that the party that is an infidel will be converted. Wi.
 
John 4:46-54 (royal official from Cana, and his household)

Acts 16:25-34 (to the jailer in Philippi, Paul and Silas say “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you and your household will be saved.”)

Acts 10 (Cornelius and his household)

Acts 18:5-11 (Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household)
 
Do you have a more specific question, for example, concerning the Catholic practice of infant baptism? What is on your mind?

The CCC probably has something about family members building one other’s faith or otherwise helping each other toward salvation, but I haven’t found a passage yet.
 
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