Kalled2Preach,

The notion of "individual salvation" began with Adam! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Nowhere in Scripture will you find "corporate salvation", although those embracing NPP/Auburnitism, would disagree.

As for 1Cor 7:13-14, you evidently have wrongly understood the passage to be saying that if there is a believing spouse in a family, then by consequence of that person's faith, the unbelieving spouse and all their children are "saved"? But the passage doesn't teach any such thing. What Paul says is that they are "holy", i.e., they are "set apart, different", which BTW is the predominant meaning of the word "holy" in Scripture. They are "different" in that they have been given the privilege, due to the presence of the believing spouse, of being exposed to a godly life, hearing of the Gospel, possibly the preaching of the Word in corporate worship, the fellowship of the saints, etc., which are the means by which salvation comes. (cf. Rom 3:1; 9:3-5)

In His Grace,

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