Peter's Vision in Acts 10, food or people? #biblestudy #acts #apologetics

“You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me (in a vision) that I should not call any person common or unclean” (Acts 10:28). So wait a second. There was nothing in the vision about people. The vision was about eating unclean foods. And yet, without being told, Peter knew that the command Jesus repeated three times—“What God has made clean do not call common”—was talking about more than just the food in the vision. It was also about people. So how did Peter make that connection? Because he had been raised a good Torah-observant Jew, and he knew how interconnected food and people are in the law, as we looked at in part one. Peter understood that this vision about food signaled a change in the status of people as well. The clean and unclean laws that Peter and his ancestors had lived under for the past 1,500 years had changed under the New Covenant.

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[qwps]

Acts 10:28 tells the reader that this has to do with the disdain jews had for commoners, and that peter was not to think of them as unclean.

God uses unclean food to describe the commoners because thats how peter saw them.

This passage isnt about food, rather its about redemption for mankind, some thing the jews were supposed to share with the world, but they failed!

[indo]

I think u are right rich. I always felt when being on the yard at stevens that they were taking advantage of all the folks that have nothing, especially the minority hoods.

[swebb]

LOL Rob... 'also' about people'? It was ONLY about people... goodness, preconceived ideas stump the layman, should never stump the prof...

[donaldmonzon]

Acts 11: 1-18 ...🤯...further addresses this topic very clearly

[makenoimage]

and that's why we read that during the 40 days He spent with them after the resurrection He passed out Easter Ham sandwhiches...

[ancientegyptcivilization]

Since he was raised a well Torah observant Jew he knew not to eat unclean foods

[XZGH]

This understanding is kinda stupid. I am sorry to say this but the verse that you yourself gave clearly says the complete opposite of what you say. Verse 28, the interpretation of the vision by Peter according to what God has revealed to him specifically says " I should not call any person unclean or common." It doesn't say any person and any animal.

[tannerfrancisco]

Judaizers also forget that Jesus Himself declared all foods clean during His earthly ministry.

[marybadovinac]

The Food was the METHOD of Comparing, NOT about Literal Food LOL

[JesustheLivingTorah]

The blind lead the blind and they both fall into the ditch.

[qwps]

Anyone who thinks acts 10 is about eatimg unclean foods after reading verse 28 is lost!

[reanmouton]

The main problem with most (if not all) of your interpretation of Scripture, is the incorrect understanding that the Father's changed His mind (or you can call it progression, evolution, "the Law pointing to Jesus", whatever floats your boat) when it comes to Old and New Covenant Law.

NOWHERE in the prophesies about the New Covenant does it mention anything about changing the Law - it will (AS IS) be written on our hearts.
And by the way, if we are in the New Covenant already (like most in this channel believes), then it's a sad state of affairs, cause most believers would be a terrible advertisement for the New Covenant.

And no, a change in priesthood that requires a change in the Law, as Hebrews says, does not mean a change in the law as is taught in churches today. Who decides which laws change and which stays the same? Just because you like your bacon, you decide that the food laws need to go. But somehow the murder laws stay? Makes zero sense.

[tbishop]

People who eat together, grow together

[indo]

I have a suspicion that this is the new norm

[achristianconvertedtochris]

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” (John 5:30, KJVA)

[achristianconvertedtochris]

We are missing the whole point. He understood that God was not talking about food. But about what he says is good or bad. Truth is measured by God. If he says it is clean, it is clean.