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To: DouglasKC

read the story in Acts 10. peter going into the house of cornelius, about going into places that are “unclean.”
what’s your opinion of that?


266 posted on 10/28/2008 4:44:41 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: absolootezer0
read the story in Acts 10. peter going into the house of cornelius, about going into places that are “unclean.” what’s your opinion of that?

There is/was no scriptural prohibition about gentiles being "unclean". Scripture taught just the opposite:

Lev 19:33 'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Lev 19:34 'The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

There was to be no "separation" of strangers, non-Israelites, gentiles, from Israelites. Yet by the time of Christ Judasim had taken on a myriad of man made rules, regulations and traditions that had led to an artificial wall of separation between Jews and gentiles. The purpose of this vision was to show once and for that this separation was artificial and that God was giving his holy spirit to gentiles.

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.

268 posted on 10/28/2008 7:11:42 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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