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The biblical pattern is clearly laid out in Acts 16:25ff. The jailor is saved, he brings Paul and Silas back to his house where they preach the Gospel to his 'oikos' who also come to faith (v34).

No, I don't think the passage requires your interpretation. Please show how it does, and how this one passage is the norm for all OIKOS?

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These things do happen in times of revival.

I asked for something evidential for that being the case for that passage? Or for that being the "norm" for the passages using OIKOS?

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Now suppose that this man had had a 16 year-old son who was a devout follower of the god, Mithras and refused to become a Christian. Are you suggesting that he would have been held down, kicking and screaming, while Paul baptized him, and that the jailor would then have, 'rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household'? I don't think so.

Ant scripture? How about something from the customs of the time? I think you are seeing the passage through modern family practices, where kids have 'rights'. Could you offer something more than a possibility?

Now, I want to know how you defend your definition of OIKOS, meaning, "only believers in the household? Please do not give me only the NT referencse, Iam a whole Bible Christian.


God bless,

william