Person should trump Letter

Peter's vision. Kill and eat 3 times God tells Him. What's Peter's "righteous" excuse? "God's word says the opposite..." What we see here is the seeming confrontation between God's word and God the Person. We know that there is no confrontation at all IN REALITY, because the law was temporal, it was never meant to be placed on man when the promise (Christ) had come.

But this is an interesting illustration. Do we take what was past to be the template, model, the full constraint of what is to be done in the future, or better yet, what God is doing right now?

Hmmm when [our interpretation of] the letter trumps the Person, we find ourselves in abject and total disobedience. No excuse, just the reality.