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Paul is a different situation. Peter and James said the Kosher laws apply to all Christians. Paul said the Kosher laws only apply to Jewish Christians. But Paul had no divine directive on this point. [/quote]

Peter’s vision is pretty clear about there being [b]no[/b] unclean animals. Here’s Acts 10-16: “In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.”

While Peter goes on to make a metaphor about clean and unclean men (Jews and Gentiles), [b]Peter takes the fact of no unclean animals as a given. [/b]

James had opinions about strangled animals and meat that was sacrificed to idols, and possibly about vegetarianism, but he’s silent about pigs, shrimp, mixing milk and meat, and so on.

Also, if Paul didn’t have a divine directive, then neither did Peter or James, so it’s strange that you bring them up to (try to) counter Paul.

Finally, Jesus invited his followers to consider sanctified wine the same as drinking his blood, which was abhorrent under Mosaic law.[/quote]

The Jewish belief is that Leviticus applies only to Jews, not anyone else. Paul was evangelizing only entirely to Gentiles. Paul did not believe Gentiles needed to become Jews in order to become Christians. 
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Darn spellcheck. “almost entirely”. [/quote]

So if (1) there’s Biblical support for gentiles not keeping kosher, and (2) the vast majority of Christians today are gentiles (celts, Africans, francs or so many other non-Semitic peoples), then (3) you must agree there’s biblical support for Christians not needing to keep kosher.

Have you undermined your own argument, and we’re done here? You can keep trying to pretend Matthew 15 doesn’t say what it actually says about “it doesn’t matter what goes in your mouth” and you can keep arguing that Peter’s metaphor isn’t founded on god saying there are no unclean animals. But you do agree there’s biblical support for the idea that gentiles, like the vast majority of Christians today, don’t need to keep kosher, and we seem to be done. [/quote]

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