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Originally Posted by GGG
In Acts though doesn’t he appear to Peter with all of the non/kosher food and say that it’s okay to eat and that essentially is saying that provided you believe in Jesus the Old Testament rules don’t matter?
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Yes. The quotes pseudo-reality posted all have to do with Christ being the fulfillment of the law. In the old Testament sin was covered only by sacrifice of an animal, whereas the New Testament teaches that Christ's death was the sacrifice for all. That is what it means when he says he came not to abolish the law but fulfill it. So sin still exists, and people will always do bad things. But forgiveness is available through mercy and belief in Jesus (vs the prescriptive sacrifices of the old testament).
There are lots of examples of Jesus saying that the Old Testament law was superceded. For example in Matthew chapter 12, he explains that working on the sabbath is permitted, and both his disciples gather food and he heals someone on the Sabbath.
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12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grainx and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”y
3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?z 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.a 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbathb and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.c 7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’a d you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus,f they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”g
11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?h 12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep!i Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.j
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