[LiteKeeper]

You have still not answered the question I asked - what is the meaning of "kill and eat?" If it is as you say, isn't it rather an odd way of getting Peter to that point. Why did God tell Peter to "kill and eat?"

[DouglasKC]

You have still not answered the question I asked - what is the meaning of "kill and eat?" If it is as you say, isn't it rather an odd way of getting Peter to that point. Why did God tell Peter to "kill and eat?"

I don't think it was odd...it certainly worked because Peter understood what the vision was about as soon as the gentiles showed up. And it didn't make any sense to him until they showed up.

As for "kill and eat", Peter apparently comprehended that it had something to do with gentiles. Scripture doesn't indicate what exactly he thought of "klll and eat", but he knew he wasn't supposed to actually do it and that it symbolized something else.