[DouglasKC]

unless of course He tells you that the previously unclean animals are now clean, but He wasn't really saying that now was He???

Seems hypocritical to me.

Are you saying that Peter was so dense that he didn't understand the message either? Because he only thought that God was telling him that gentiles were now clean:

Act 10:28 And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.

Again, Peter tells them and us the interpetation of the vision. He didn't start running around saying that now all meats were clean. He didn't say that God showed him that all foods were now clean. Reading anything else into his vision is adding on to his interpetation.

[JohnnyM]

"Again, Peter tells them and us the interpetation of the vision. "

You dont seem to be getting the parallel here. God used the vision to explain the spiritual truth, which you agree with, but you dont take the vision as truth. Now Jesus used the act of washing the feet to explain the Spiritual truth of uplifting and "washing" one another, yet you take the act as truth. There is a disconnect here. You are being hypocritical. God told Peter that these animals are clean and can now be eaten. This is inarguable. This is what God said, yet you say God didn't say it, but on the otherhand you fight vehemently for a ritual of washing of the feet and demand that others do the same. This is simply confusing to me. On the hand you say you obey what Jesus and God say and I cannot fault you for that, but then you renig on it and say God wasn't really saying what He said. This is confusion and hypocrisy. Do you see what I mean???

JM