Peter's Vision

[Vickilynn]

All I know is what the Lord tells me. You can choose whatever you want. I don't have the luxury of being able to pick and choose what God tells me. I believe HIM and His Word over those people in here who believe their own thing.

Shalom FA,

And that's exactly what I'm saying to you.

You cannot hear G-d telling you something that contradicts Scripture. G-d does not go against His Word.

So, if you are hearing that Peter's vision has anything to do with food, it's not from G-d because that's not what the Scriptures say.

I believe HIM and His Word over people who want to add things to the Scriptures that just aren't there.

I won't pick and choose what I obey, I obey G-d and His Word.

[Floatingaxe]

shiloh357

I believe you want to stand right before God in all that you do. God made the things, the law and regulations, the animals, the human being, but none of them will exist without Him. I myself can sometimes get so intangled with the things of God that I sometimes forget the God of all these things. Remember when did the law came? Why wasn't there law before that time? When Kain killed Abel there was no written law, yet Kain knew that murder was wrong. How did he know?

I'm not trying to put you down here, but to build up. After all, that's what God wants from His children. To live in love and unity.

The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

FloatingAxe.

I just sense a loving simple spirit from you. not simple as in common, but... you know what I mean.

May you also follow in the footsteps of your Rabbi, our only Rabbi - Jesus Christ!

And may you find and keep in that place near God's heart.

May we edify each other in word and spirit that we may boast of each other before God.

Oh my goodness! What a wonderfully blessed encouragement! Thank you so much!

Jesus Christ is everything to me. I love Him and He loves me. Serving Him is where it's at! He gives much joy---it is an unquenchable fire!

Amen, Juan, amen...

[apothanein kerdos]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

[Floatingaxe]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

Duh...your tongue-in-cheek was not serious, and so I won't answer that further.

[apothanein kerdos]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

Duh...your tongue-in-cheek was not serious, and so I won't answer that further.

Okay, then let's make it serious.

God has revealed to me that this passage is not doing away with the dietary laws at all - that we are still supposed to keep them.

So which one of us is right? One of us is claiming to listen to God, but only one of us really is. Which one is it?

[Floatingaxe]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

Duh...your tongue-in-cheek was not serious, and so I won't answer that further.

Okay, then let's make it serious.

God has revealed to me that this passage is not doing away with the dietary laws at all - that we are still supposed to keep them.

So which one of us is right? One of us is claiming to listen to God, but only one of us really is. Which one is it?

Obviously you have decided to toy with me, and I won't bite.

[Giaour]

Although I do not believe that Pauls dream meant anything other than what it explains, I do know that God reveals things to us through scripture.

For example, I may be struggling with a decision so I will turn to the Bible. I will read something that will strike me and answer my decision question. Now, I know that passage was not addressing my decision directly but rather indirectly.

I dont mean to be confusing so let me try it this way.

Lets say that I am contemplating on whether to take a different job or not and I ask God to help me know His will. Then I read this passage. 39. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

Now, I know that this passage is not talking about my job delemma but it answers my question none the less.

Does that make sense?

[apothanein kerdos]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

Duh...your tongue-in-cheek was not serious, and so I won't answer that further.

Okay, then let's make it serious.

God has revealed to me that this passage is not doing away with the dietary laws at all - that we are still supposed to keep them.

So which one of us is right? One of us is claiming to listen to God, but only one of us really is. Which one is it?

Obviously you have decided to toy with me, and I won't bite.

You're trying to dodge the argument. You made the claim that God had revealed this truth to you. I'm making the same claim...so is Shiloh and Vickylynn...yet all of us disagree with you. So are you listening to God better or are we?

If you're going to say God told you the interpretation, you better be prepared to back it up. Stop accusing me and dodging the question.

[Guest shiloh357]

The vision does speak to the issue of food, as it is stated that Peter was hungering, and God told Peter three times to eat of the animals. It is not a major emphasis, but neither is it NOT there.

No, the vision does not "speak to the issue" of food. Visions do not work that way.

You are trying derive a doctrine from a vision, and that is completely out of sync with how visions in the Bible are meant to be understood.

Again, You are having to supply the interpretation of abrogating dietary laws on your own with absolutely nothing from the Bible to substantiate that interpretation. Doesn't it bother you that you have no biblical support for that? Your "defense" amounts to, "It's right because so and so said so, and because I want to believe it, 'cause that is they way it was alwasy taught." You have to rely on sources outside the Bible to justify that interpretation. You cannot point to ONE verse that says, Peter's vision means that all unclean animals are now clean." You have nothing.

Again, it is nothing but a sacred cow. It is nothing more than a tradition.

[Floatingaxe]

Starting out with a loving post today are we? Of course you would not be right.

Why? Is God wrong?

Duh...your tongue-in-cheek was not serious, and so I won't answer that further.

Okay, then let's make it serious.

God has revealed to me that this passage is not doing away with the dietary laws at all - that we are still supposed to keep them.

So which one of us is right? One of us is claiming to listen to God, but only one of us really is. Which one is it?

Obviously you have decided to toy with me, and I won't bite.

You're trying to dodge the argument. You made the claim that God had revealed this truth to you. I'm making the same claim...so is Shiloh and Vickylynn...yet all of us disagree with you. So are you listening to God better or are we?

If you're going to say God told you the interpretation, you better be prepared to back it up. Stop accusing me and dodging the question.

I don't dodge anything, my dear. I told you all I would pray and meditate on it, and ask God to show me something about the passage in question. He showed me today the meaning of it. So, three people disagree with me. That is no majority, and does not mean you people have the market on truth in all things...whatsoever.

My passion is to teach the teachable. That is the Lord's passion as well.