Did Peter's Vision of the Sheet Mean People & Food?

[YYZ Skinhead]

It is hard to tell which individual I am quoting from this post, so pardon my error in omitting their name.

Quote:While the rest of mankind had freedom to eat of any living creature on the earth, Israel was now limited to what God commanded in the Law through Moses. Not unlike, in a way, the difference God placed on Israel and the differences of the priests. I believe this is crucial because before they were chosen by God, Israel ate the same as the rest of mankind, just as God had determined to Noah for all mankind.
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I basically agree with what you are saying above, with the addition that they were forbidden to eat a "limb from an animal" as it says "the blood you shall not eat..." [Gen 9.4]. "Limb from an animal" is an expression, not necessarily just a literal concept. I have no clue why this expression is used, quite honestly.

I think it refers to the prohibition on eating live animals. Some sadistic people nowadays eat live donkey, live fish, live shellfish, et cetera (I will spare everyone the YouTube links). Genesis 9:4 says: But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Acts 15 and 21 reiterate the prohibition on eating animals with the blood still in them, which presumably includes eating living creatures, and adds "things strangled" because people back then were likely eating their own versions of modern dishes like pressed duck (a perverse dish involving strangling ducks to preserve the blood, which is used in the sauce). If people do it now, they were probably doing it back then. Nothing new under the sun.