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To: JeepInMazar; LiteKeeper
ACT 10:13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" ACT 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean." ACT 10:15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

Peter didn't understand the vision he had in Acts 10 to mean that all meats were now clean. God sent that vision to teach that gentiles were not to be considered unclean.

Act 10:17 Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;

Peter couldn't understand why God in a vision would tell him that unclean animals were now clean. That was not a teaching of Jesus, or at least Peter didn't recognize it as such because Acts 10 takes place nearly 25 or 30 years after the death of Christ and:

Act 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."

But Peter did eventually figure out what the vision meant, and he tells us:

Act 10:28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

10 posted on 12/21/2003 7:58:41 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
How do you make the leap from 10:13 & 14 where Peter is told to "kill and eat" to verse 28 where he is talking about the Gentiles? That is quite a stretch...and especially not a justification for vegetarianism!
13 posted on 12/21/2003 10:19:10 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: DouglasKC
Acts 10 is probably not 25-30 years after Jesus' resurrection.

That would make it ca 55 AD. From Cornelius we have to have all the ministry of Paul and Paul killed by Nero ca. 65 AD in a mere 10 years.

Not very likely at all.



20 posted on 12/22/2003 7:08:23 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of It!)
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