2. God interceded in Peter’s life by vision to tell him Gentiles are not unclean, but included in the Gospel. The Holy Spirit confirmed this.
Paragraph 1, Yes.
Paragraph 2, Yes.
You didn't intend #2 to somehow rebut #1, did you? (Or maybe I didn't understand your intention.)
God interceded in Peter's life by a vision, not for just Peter personally, but because Peter, as leader of the Council, would be he one to relay this to the rest. After he'd told them the message he'd received from Heaven, the Holy Spirit's message, they knew the right path to take.
” You didn’t intend #2 to somehow rebut #1, did you? (Or maybe I didn’t understand your intention.)”
It was a rebuttal of the argument that Peter led the Acts 15 Council. I quoted just a portion of the other poster’s argument.
Peter was categorically wrong about Gentiles and salvation. Paul had to confront him for his hypocrisy. God further had an object lesson with Peter via a vision to show him that Gentiles are not unclean.
As such, Paul was not “recognizing Peter’s authority”. Paul came to the council and brought witnesses to God’s Holy Spirit making clear that God was bringing Gentiles into salvation as he had done with Jews. In this way, the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Gentiles made evident that God didn’t want them to become Jews before trusting in the Savior.
All Peter did was relay his own experience. Paul and Barnabas testified to what God did. The advocates of keeping the law came to put everyone under bondage. The Council had to resolve this issue.
It was a typical article that uses a passage like some kind of springboard to teach ideas not in the article. We see a lot of that posted around here.