On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > Well one of the initial chapters of Acts has Peter seeing a dream with > > flowing animals from God who says if I made them they are all Clean. > > > Oh, so someone has a dream, and that invalidates the Old Testament? > Couldn't it be that Peter was jonesing for some pork or lobster, and > made up this dream so that he could change the rules? >
-------------------------------------------- Bacon! No I think it was really to get into Peters head that Gentiles could be allowed into the church, or at that time, "believe in Christ". You had the disciples going out and spreading the word and some when out and spoke to non Jewish people who believed. So this was Gods way of telling Peter that a newer set of rules were to be followed. Jesus is the Messiah and he brings a new world order to all who will listen and believe. This must have been a huge hurdle for them to cross. Their whole life the teachings of the Jewish traditions were all about them, the chosen people and the lineages to the familys before them. Why you could not marry someone out of your clan because that brought shame unto Israel and its people were enslaved. But now it's fine to bring in the pagans and eat the foods that a couple of years ago were forbidden? Those must have been very interesting conversations. Heck just taking in Saul and he is now calling himself a disciple "Paul"? That must have caused a lot of friction. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
