What did the Lord tell Peter to do in the vision of the sheet with animals?
In the vision, the Lord commanded Peter to kill and eat the animals shown to him. Peter objected, saying he had never eaten anything unclean, but the Lord was teaching that freedom in grace means not worrying about kosher distinctions.
Les explains that in Acts, Peter saw a sheet come down filled with all manner of four-footed animals and creeping things. The Lord told him to kill one of them and eat it. This was a shock to a good kosher Jew, and Peter protested, 'No way Lord, I've never eaten anything unclean.' Les points out that the Lord was teaching Peter something totally different—the freedom that grace brings even to the Jew. You don't worry about whether it's kosher or not; the Lord has created it, thank the Lord for it and eat it. And that's where we are today.
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How did Peter respond when the Lord told him to eat unclean animals?
Peter, as a kosher Jew, was shocked at the Lord's command to eat unclean animals and objected that he had never eaten anything unclean.
How does Peter's vision of the sheet of unclean animals in Acts connect to Paul's teaching about eating meat?
In Acts, the sheet of animals and the command to kill and eat was the Lord teaching Peter something totally different, yet it was the same analogy as Paul's point about food.