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To: FormerLib; Jean Chauvin
Illiterate, I believe you called me?

Indeed, I did. Illiterate - if you look at the thread AB & I were interacting on - in the limited definition I used on that thread. I suggest you peruse that discussion first. I used that term in the context that you might know the story, but don't know how it applies to other discussions. And it looks like I was right. Yes, you understand one of the primary meanings of this verse - but you failed to catch the secondary implications re the Mosaic Dietary Laws.

"and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And I heard a voice saying unto the, Arise, Peter; slay and eat....What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven." "

Now, why was there a human body included among the beasts on the sheet, once declared unclean to eat, and now is declared cleansed?

396 posted on 12/05/2003 7:05:25 AM PST by Alex Murphy (Athanasius contra mundum!)
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To: Alex Murphy
I used that term in the context that you might know the story, but don't know how it applies to other discussions. And it looks like I was right.

No, I am just unable to follow all the perverse logic that some apply to Scripture and prefer to stand with our traditional understanding of the verses. It has served us well for almost 2000 years, after all.

I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

Now, why was there a human body included among the beasts on the sheet...

I'm sorry, but the convolutions and deceit being used here are thankfully beyond me.

397 posted on 12/05/2003 7:13:48 AM PST by FormerLib
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