Brad,
I do believe that food restrictions were eliminated as well.  After
all, Jesus said, "Go in to all the world."  If the disciples had to
take there dietary restrictions with them where ever they went, how
could Paul then be all things to all people?  Don't forget, church
tradition says that  Andrew ended up in India.  If that is true, in
India, then he wouldn't have been able to eat cow meat.  He would
have had to eat something else!
Kathy



At 03:06 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote:
>According to Leviticus, God gave his people some very simple but easy to
>determine guidelines for food they ought eat. Fish that have scales and not
>those without, not to eat scavengers, but to eat hooved animals that chew
>their cud and etc.
>
>How then does the New Testament' scriptures  that speak of unclean being
>clean apply? Granted I know Peter's trance or dream or whatever was
>netaphorically speaking of the visitors he was about to get who were
>gentiles and not Jews, but is there a food related application to it as
>well? Curious of your thoghts. Has the New Testament made the Leviticus
>rules obsolete in any way.
>
>Rom 14:19-21
>19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of
>one another.
>20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed
>are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
>
>Acts 10:11-16
>11 and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming
>down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
>12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling
>creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
>13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
>14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything
>unholy and unclean."
>15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no
>longer consider unholy."