Peter’s vision was actually representative of three “unclean” men who were coming to visit him and whom he would have ordinarily not associated with (as a devout Jew), so the sheet was lowered three times in his dream to represent these three men.
Getting back under the Jewish law (which didn’t apply to Gentiles anyway) is not for me and any time I feel any compunction about that, I read Hebrews again.
Having said that, just from a common sense approach, there ARE animals that aren’t so good for us to be eating just from a health perspective, and I guess that’s why God told his people those meats weren’t good for food. In Jordan Rubin’s book, “The Maker’s Diet”, he explains the nitty gritty about the hog that will give you pause as well as on the scavenger shellfish and fish. We don’t eat much pork at all as it causes my husband to have gout. I do like a well-cooked slice of bacon once in a great while, though. Having been raised on bacon (cooked to a burned crisp), it would be very hard for me to NEVER have any of it again.
Remember, if you’re going to undertake to keep the LAW about this or that, then you better from that day forth and forever keep the WHOLE LAW because if you break one slight one of them, you are then guilty of breaking the whole thing (a considerable lot of them). Hint: You can’t do it; that’s why Christ had to die for us.
Nicely stated. Thank you.
“Peter’s vision was actually representative of three “unclean” men who were coming to visit him and whom he would have ordinarily not associated with (as a devout Jew), so the sheet was lowered three times in his dream to represent these three men.”
I understand that - but it is also an analogy and a statement that God can make the unclean - clean.