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Kevin_Williams
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I need a good Catholic explanation of what St. Paul means in the passage when he states that one non-believer is made holy by another believer.
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DaveD
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Kevin Williams:
Likewise the children would be baptized and entered into the new covenant if the believing spouse followed the teachings of the Church. So if all convictions from the Holy Spirit were followed the entire family would be made holy through the prayers, supplications, example, and deeds of the believing spouse who is on the road to salvation by grace through faith woking in love.
The unbeliever has been given the grace of having a believing spouse who through example and prayer will make the unbeliever a regular subject of Divine intervention on behalf of His/her soul. Therefore the unbelieving spouse has a better chance of salvation than an unbelieving spouse who lives in an unelieving home. When the unbeliever does finally believe one of their first prayer would probably be in thanksgiving for the spouse who was holy enough to keep him/her from losing their soul.I need a good Catholic explanation of what St. Paul means in the passage when he states that one non-believer is made holy by another believer.
Likewise the children would be baptized and entered into the new covenant if the believing spouse followed the teachings of the Church. So if all convictions from the Holy Spirit were followed the entire family would be made holy through the prayers, supplications, example, and deeds of the believing spouse who is on the road to salvation by grace through faith woking in love.
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Todd_Easton
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Here is what two Catholic commentaries say…
The 1859 Haydock Catholic Family Bible and Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:14 says:
*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. (Challoner) — 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 [the children] are truly sanctified.
A Commentary on the New Testament, prepared by The Catholic Biblical Association in 1942 on this verse says:The sanctity is an external sanctity. The Christians are the new Chosen People, set apart especially from pagan unbelievers who because of idolatry and sin were considered unclean as a class. The Christian party, one body with the unbeliever, effects by the union that external sanctity of the spouse and and their children. Infant baptism was at this time exceptional.
The 1859 Haydock Catholic Family Bible and Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:14 says:
*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. (Challoner) — 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 [the children] are truly sanctified.
A Commentary on the New Testament, prepared by The Catholic Biblical Association in 1942 on this verse says:The sanctity is an external sanctity. The Christians are the new Chosen People, set apart especially from pagan unbelievers who because of idolatry and sin were considered unclean as a class. The Christian party, one body with the unbeliever, effects by the union that external sanctity of the spouse and and their children. Infant baptism was at this time exceptional.
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Kevin_Williams
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Many thanks to everyone for your great replies!
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