| You have answered "TRUE" |
| The answer is "FALSE". This is a partically egregious example of the error of Christian teachers concerning the New Testament. Acts 10 with Peter's vision to "rise, kill, and eat" unclean animals is most often cited as the New Testament teaching that the Torah's teaching of clean and unclean is now null and void. The problem is that Peter gives the interpretation of the vision and it has nothing to do with changing the Torah's instruction about clean and unclean foods. It was a vision to show Peter that he can no longer consider Gentiles who come to the Lord as unclean or unholy. "And opening his mouth, Peter said, ""I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right, is welcome to Him."" Acts 10:34-35 Acts 11:1-18 gives Peter's entire account of the event in sequence explaining that the vision was about the gospel being delivered to the Gentiles. It has nothing to do with nullifying anything in the Torah. "...because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated? (Thus He declared all foods clean.)" Mark 7:19 The words "thus he declared all foods clean" is not in the original Greek manuscripts. This may come as a shock to you, but some ancient Christian scholar inserted these words so he could eat the flesh of swine. Before I leave this subject, let me say in the defense of most Christians that Christians do eat kosher; they just have a different list than the Lord has. |