Psalm 8:4
What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Gen 2
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. 5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
Gen 9
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
James 3:7
For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race*
*applied to things belonging to men
SO this adds another dynamic to what was happening in Peters vision.
When Peter was being carried away with the Rabbis who regarded Gentiles as unclean and we see through many rabbinical writings that the rabbis state that that gentiles are beneath them...
Peter regarding gentiles as a lesser group that way would be denying gentile believers their true created purpose of Dominion in walking as reflectors of God's image and glory being the SAME as Jews who were elevating themselves- and not regarding gentiles the same as the native born according to the Torah - but like animals, gentiles being regarded as something to have dominion over , a still separate lesser body than the "people of faith"
God starts in Acts 10 with remarking that Cornelius' offerings and italian generosity are a perpetual memorial before Him.
Who are Peter and the rabbis to deny that Cornelius was less of a reflection of God's call to Dominion than they?
To say that because he was a gentile that he was somehow less, would be contrary to what was established before there was ever "Jews"
