I understand you and enjoy the peaceful convo. I love Jesus and even just talking through it. We can leave it at where it is just was looking for understanding.
it specifically states nothing outside of a man/woman going into them can defile them. So dirty hands, food or anything. It says it goes to the stomach and out of a man/woman. Their dirty hands didn’t go to their stomach so if it was only about them not washing hands the scriptures wouldn’t have...
I agree and know it’s a vision. The Jew is clean the gentile is unclean. At the same time Cornelius was receiving a parallel vision to get Peter and bring him to his house. The Jew and Gentiles became one under God. The levitical law was laid out to sort out the specific animals to separate Jews...
Ok so trying to follow… so if I’m understanding you the law regarding food in this situation would need to be upheld to receive Christ and enter into the kingdom of heaven?
I feel like if I’m taking directly from scripture and using it as it as spoken it isn’t being misused. We would also have to agree we are on the same level of Christianity. Meaning we agree on theology ect… I say that because I would never use the Bible in a secular argument or if someone was...
You are also free to eat as you wish I believe it was said the things that come out of someone is what defiles a man and what goes into man goes into the belly. Mathew 15ish without looking it up.