Subject of Acts Chapter 10?

Question

Food?
or
People?

There is only one subject. In the Greek, once the subject is set it stays set.

Matthew Chapter 5:17-18

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Giggles is on the right path here. Wish she'd give more details.

Answer 1

The food that Peter was being told to eat here were considered unclean according to the Mosaic Law. Such was also the case with gentiles. By three times being told to slaughter and eat these previously unclean things, along with the words "You stop calling defiled the things God has cleansed."(vs 15), God was here telling Peter that non-Jews were no longer to be considered unclean. This vision was given just at the right time, since Cornelius' servant arrived immediately thereafter, asking Peter to come and minister to Cornelius' family.

Particularly was Peter encouraged to go by the words of the spirit in verses 19 and 20: "Look! Three men are seeking you. However, rise, go downstairs and be on your way with them, not doubting at all, because I have dispatched them."

It was at this point that God opened the way for the preaching of His kingdom to all gentiles. This culminates in one of the most important passages in the book of Acts, that being verses 34, 35 "At this Peter opened his mouth and said: “For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him."

Is God prejudiced against people from other places, races or backgrounds? No. This scripture particularly points out the fallacy of racist so-called Christian organizations such as the KKK.

Answer 2

People.
It is a good example of what we say when we tell people that Jesus came to fulfill the law. It shows how God considers all people to be equal, and that if God has cleansed you of your sins, then let no man call you unclean. Because in the times of the law, gentiles were considered to be unclean and not able to receive Gods gift of grace. But through peter, God was telling them that now that Jesus has fulfill the law that they were not to think of any body, even the gentiles as unclean and unable to receive thee gift of th Holy Spirit. And it also show that God will guide us if we just have faith, as Peter did.
There is a lot more, but that is all I will go into now.

Answer 3

Peter, being a Jew, was taught never to eat unclean animals. Why were they unclean? Because God had declared them so.

Now Peter, a Christ-following Jew, was asked to take the Gospel to the Gentile world, a world that, to the Jew, was essentially "unclean."

God, by using an "unclean food" analogy that Peter would understand, wanted Peter to see for himself that Jesus was the Messiah, not just of the Jews (as the Jews of that time would have believed) but of the entire world. The OT has always taught this, but it would be very important and difficult for a Jew of that time to see that God has proclaimed Jesus as Messiah of the whole world, Jew and Gentile alike; "chosen decendents of Abraham" and "unclean heathen" alike.

And how does an God proclaim a Jew or Gentile to be clean?

Only when we are washed in the blood of His Son, the Lamb, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 9:13-14: For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 15:3-4 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Answer 4

God was showing Peter that he could bring the Gospel to Gentiles, even though they ate "unclean" foods.

Answer 5

Both

Answer 6

The purpose of THIS fable was to teach that people should be judged as individuals , not members of groups .

Answer 7

State the verse
so then I will know what you are saying

Answer 8

Eradication's of prejudices.

Answer 9

both

Answer 10

More details please!