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jaywill
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03-26-2011 11:15 AM

It seems that God told Peter in a symbol of the Gentiles that He had made all foods clean.


"But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything common and unclean.

And a voice came to him again a second time: The things that God has cleansed, do not make common.

And this occured three times; and immediatley the vessel was taken up into heaven." (See Acts 10:10-16)

The vessel had been filled with "all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of heaven." (v.12)

I have no doubt that the foods, in God's progressive revelation of His salvation, were symbolic of peoples even from Leviticus.

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05-03-2011 12:30 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Jon
03-26-2011 2:36 PM

What does this have to do with whether or not Jesus declared all foods clean?

Jesus is God incarnate. He who has seen Him has seen the Father. He spoke the words of the Father and did the word of the Father and thoroughly expressed the Father.

And in this passage God told Peter to get over his past reluctance to eat "unclean" foods. (Acts 10:10-16)

Three times He (the Lord) told Peter.

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05-03-2011 5:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Jon
05-03-2011 2:37 PM

Re: Peter, Jesus, and God
It requires an extreme amount of interpretive liberty to conclude that this 'vision' records an act of God declaring all creatures clean to eat. It could certainly be interpreted in the same way that Jesus' words are interpreted, when he tells the crowd not to treat human traditions like commandments from God:

I will have to read the response latter in detail.

But sure, if someone is trying to deduce from this that the Lord was wanting Peter to eat Cocaine or guzzle down whiskey from sun up to sun down, sure, that might be a stretch.

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