Peter's Vision in Acts 10

We have often been told that unclean animals such as pork and shell fish have now been made clean and are now permissible to eat in this age we live in, citing that Jesus has now declared unclean food clean or that the whole law has some how been done away by means of the cross. But what is the truth on the matter.

After Peters vision (Acts 10) of the sheet coming down from heaven three times with unclean animals in it (which represented the Jewish opinion that all gentiles were unclean) and God telling him to kill and eat, Peter was in doubt of what this vision meant (10:17) for he knew that scripture (or our old testament which we are to judge and correct all things - 2 Tim 3:16) had not sanctified unclean animals to be eaten (1 Tim 4:4-"5"), nor did Jesus while on earth. Peter said to Cornelius and the other two that were with him: "You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me [in a vision] and now reveled to me that I should not call any "MAN" impure or unclean. - Acts 10:28 I like this picture below, because you can see the angel pointing out the gentiles as to say that this vision is pertaining to them, not to unclean animals, which would contradict his word. When reading further some like out point to Acts 11:9, when Peter was retelling his story to the believers in Jerusalem about how God now accepts gentiles into the fold as they should. Most translations will read that Peter said something like, "But the voice answered me again from heaven, do not call "ANYTHING" unclean if God has made it clean." Note when studying this passage in the Greek, the text will not have the word "anything" in it, which may lead one away from the textual context or subject of this vision - being "man", thus falsely assuming the placed word "anything" could refers to pork or any other unclean animal now being clean, which it do not. What Acts 11:9 actually reads is, " What God has cleansed, no longer call unholy." Whereas Acts 10:28 reads, "...do not call any "MAN" impure or unclean.

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