What Gentile food did Peter eat? Acts 11:3

[Passionknight]

I read somewhere in Acts of the Apostles that Peter visited with the Gentiles(Act 10), after the vision for his mission to Cornelius, ( together with 6 of his followers) and was chastised for eating with them (Acts 11:3). Can we assume that he actually ate the food of the Gentiles including meat which was included in the " sheet " in the vision? He was told by the voice that those animals were made clean by God and therefore the gentiles who ate of these could no longer be considered unclean because they ate these animals. Did Peter’s understanding lead him to eat of of these animals which the Gentiles had as part of their diet?

 

[Della]

The incident in which Peter was rebuked was not for eating what the Gentiles did with them but rather for the exact opposite fault:

Gal 2:11-14: But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Peter ought to have known he should not live one way among the Jews and another among the Gentiles, so Paul called him on it. It was a personal fault of Peter’s that has nothing to do with the charism of infallibility Christ promised to him and his successors. The Church does not claim impeccability for the popes but rather infallibility when pronouncing on matters of faith and morals. I hope that is helpful to you.

 

[Fidelis]

Passionknight:

I read somewhere in Acts of the Apostles that Peter visited with the Gentiles(Act 10), after the vision for his mission to Cornelius, ( together with 6 of his followers) and was chastised for eating with them (Acts 11:3). Can we assume that he actually ate the food of the Gentiles including meat which was included in the " sheet " in the vision? He was told by the voice that those animals were made clean by God and therefore the gentiles who ate of these could no longer be considered unclean because they ate these animals. Did Peter’s understanding lead him to eat of of these animals which the Gentiles had as part of their diet?

We have no way of knowing since the Scripture does not specifically say.

The point of the vision wasn’t so much about food, as it was that, the Gentiles, who formerly had been considered “unclean” and not worthy to be part of God’s people, were now to be considered clean, with no distinction between them and the Jews.