I don’t believe God to be the author of confusion.
So everything in scripture is perfectly clear to you?
In the post I replied to your presumably credo-baptist presuppositions led you to assume something that the text does not say. Covenantal paedobaptists also have a perfectly consistent way of interpreting family baptisms.
Now, your guilty of same thing you have accused me of!
I said "I don’t believe God to be the author of confusion.
But, just because God is not the author of confusion, doesn't mean that He has revealed everything that has happened or is going to happen, in exact detail, making everything perfectly clear to me, or to anyone else for that matter.. One day it's true we will be perfected, and know all things, but that won't be untill we enter eternity.
In regards to the post you replied to, I do believe that Scripture interprets Scripture. So in this particular case Acts Chap 16, the events surrounding the arrest of Paul and Silas, the way they responded to suffering, and the mighty acts of God brought the jailer to his knees. He finally knew he needed God's salvation. But how could he be reconciled to God? Paul and Silas's answer was simple-just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ No other work was needed.
Acts 16:29-34As I read it, everyone in the jailer's whole household believed. Without reading anything into the text that is expressly there... what are the ages of the people in his household? Is his whole household family only, i.e. wife, children, etc... (which may lend to the I Cor. 7 argument)? Or, did the household consist of slaves, bond servants, brothers, cousins, etc...? Can either immediate family or others be understood without "reading things into the text that aren't there?" If the household did consist of others, did the belief of the jailer sanctify the slaves? Or does it matter... verse 34 saying "having believed in God with his whole household."
And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.