Category: Sidewalk
Cross of Saint Peter / Petrine Cross
I know many of you already know this, but I believe God would like everyone to know it, so today I’m writting about it.
This is the Cross. The Cross is the greatest and most profound symbol of LOVE and HOPE that will ever be. Jesus suffered and died on the Cross for you. Jesus suffered and died on the Cross for me.
When the Cross is displayed upside down (inverted), it remains the greatest and most profound symbol of LOVE and HOPE that will ever be, and it gains additional meaning.
After the crucifixion of Jesus, when Peter the Apostle was sentenced to death by crucifixion, he requested that the crucifix on which he was to be hanged be turned upside down because he did not feel worthy to die in the same manner as Jesus. Thus, Peter the Apostle was crucified upside down on an inverted cross.
The inverted Cross is often called the Cross of Saint Peter or the Petrine Cross.
If you display the Cross upside down, you are making a very, very strong statement which expresses ultimate humility before Christ.
The following is commentary about my own personal experience. I do not think God is concerned that people know any of this which follows, but I wanted to share with you, a little about my experience.
Personally, I have some work to do toward correcting my emotional understanding on this subject. I have been quite adversely affected by my past exposure to misapplication of the Cross of Saint Peter (A.K.A. the Petrine Cross), with the majority of it occurring in Pop Culture media (e.g. “Satanic” album cover art, horror movies, etc.)
I do well if I see it displayed atop a church or other similar and correct context. I see it for the beautiful symbol that it is and I feel appropriately about it. But if I see it in an incorrect context, I cringe. I feel momentarily that I am seeing something bad. I know intellectually that I am seeing something good and that it is possibly just misplaced, but initially I feel differently until I take a few seconds to remind myself of what I am really seeing.
Moving forward, I intend to work on this personal issue. My plan is: after some self-talk about what I am about to see, is to spend a few minutes per day viewing images that depict misapplication of the Cross of Saint Peter (A.K.A. the Petrine Cross). Then, each day when I have done that; more self-talk about what I have just seen.
Voila! …issue resolved soon!
God bless you all!
🎵 “Listen for the Playback” 🎵
I realize you are all probably wondering where the most interesting content is. Some of that is coming soon on this website. However, most of it will come later, after you’ve all returned home.
I’m pretty sure that Leader-Guy has been audio recording me for many years now, and that there will be a playback event later which will be inclusive of nearly every on-topic thing I’ve said over the past ten years or so. There will be a lot, a lot, A LOT of amazing content. If Leader-Guy has not been recording, then we can simply talk.
Here is a small sampling of some questions which will be answered later:
- Is God real, and is God really God? (hint: Yes! & Yes!)
- What is God doing? (hint: Many things. All of them good. None are bad!)
- Is the Devil real? (hint: No, but there is an amazing story which you’ve not heard yet.)
- What is the Small Place? Who else is there?
- What is the cause of Tourette Syndrome? (Of course I can’t promise this, but I am VERY confident that there will be enough helpful information in the Playback that, fairly soon afterward a cure will be found for Tourette’s and a multitude of other ailments.)
- What is the purpose and utility of the Common Cold?
- How did Michael Jordan (#23) with his parents make the difficult choice of what Michael would do directly after high school? (college?, MLB Baseball?, NBA Basketball?)
- Why does Planet Earth exist? What is its purpose? Who are the meek that shall inherit the Earth? (not me) …and why will they inherit it?
- Will Pete Rose (#14) ever play Major League Baseball again?
- Have I ever been, or will I ever be anyone other than who I am now? (hint: No)
- Will Jesus be homebound when his mission is complete in the Small Place? (hint: Yes! …and you will have the opportunity to see him with your own eyes.)
- Why am I called “The Unforgiven”? (hint: the reason is something good, not something bad.)
- Am I, or was I ever one of those not-real people that existed here on Earth before your arrival? (holograms? …I call them “Facados”) (hint: No, but I almost may as well have been one. God did something quite interesting and amazing with me which will be detailed later.)
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God bless you all!
Sharing some of my beliefs
There is something I’d like to share about my own spiritual belief, but I’d like to preface it, so that hopefully people can see why this choice to share is not an easy one for me. I want to be sensitive to others’ beliefs and I do not want to impose my own beliefs. If I knew with certainty whether or not the suggestion of the Holy Trinity is new to you, perhaps it would be easier for me to know if sharing my personal belief is a good idea or not.
I have never seen or visited the world you’ve all come from. I know very little about it and your experiences there. I do not know if you’ve ever even heard of the Holy Trinity prior to coming here. I suspect you have not, although I have no way of being certain.
Here is what I want to share. My belief in God is strictly monotheistic. I believe in God, and I believe in Jesus, but I do not believe Jesus is God. I know Jesus to be the one and only begotten Son of God. Jesus is Christ.
I believe I know why God is teaching us about the Holy Trinity. I believe God has a story to share with us. It is a story which is very personal and emotional for God. It is a story of how things would have been in a different circumstance.
God has shared some of the story with me and I think there are others who know different parts of the story. I am hopeful and optimistic that they and I will eventually be able to work together to assemble the pieces and share what we discover.
God bless you, everyone.
Green Heart.
Not Self-Tricking!
July 16, 2023, 8:00 pm
Sidewalk
Santi
Today, I would like to share some about my journey from agnosticism to eventual belief in God. I tend to think of myself as having had some pretty extreme agnostic views before I came to believe in God.
First off, for anyone who doesn’t know, to be agnostic is to neither believe in God, nor disbelieve in God.
I was agnostic from late 2006 to mid 2011. During that time, I believed that only God could convince me of his existence, but that he would never do that. I believed that if God ever did reveal himself to anyone, it was in the distant past and is not something he does anymore. I thought God’s expectation (if he were real) was that we believe in him without any solid evidence. I felt this to be entirely unfair and not something I could possibly do, even if I wanted to.
Furthermore, I thought that everyone who believed in God was “self-tricking”; that they were in fact believing in God without sufficient evidence. I’m not saying that I thought they were incorrect about the existence of God. I was, after all agnostic, not atheist (Atheist is to disbelieve in God). I just thought that they were somehow believing in God without any real evidence because they wanted to.
Anyhow, self-tricking is not what I’m doing. God made sure that I absolutely know that he is real and he is good.
In 2008, God began to reveal himself to me with great intention. God proceeded very slowly though and I didn’t even become suspicious that God might be revealing himself to me until early 2011. Once I became suspicious, I went on to waffle back and forth time and time again between agnosticism and belief for about six months. I spent the entirety of nearly every day during that time period cooped up in my house alone (or so I thought anyway. I didn’t know about David or Peace-Guys yet), trying, trying, trying to determine once-and-for-all the truth of the existence or non-existence of God.
During those six months, I cried out to God on many occasions, begging and pleading that he please be quick and please be clear with me if he were in fact revealing himself. Still God moved slowly.
Those six months were the most difficult of my life. I was in agony. I was suffering. My hours, days, weeks, months were wrought with intense emotional pain. I needed the pieces to fit together. I needed to know the truth. My need to know the truth grew and grew until It reached a fever pitch, and still God continued to move slowly.
Something I didn’t yet have was even an inkling of understanding about God’s unfathomably great wisdom. It seemed that God was taking a painfully long time to do something that he could just as easily and effectively do in an instant. It seemed as if God were torturing me without any good reason.
Of course, God wasn’t torturing me. What he was doing, was laying a very strong foundation to build upon later. Beginning all the way back in 2006, without me even knowing he was doing it, God was teaching me volumes about himself and a multitude of other spiritual topics.
As God continued laying that strong foundation, the evidence grew from a tiny molehill into a giant mountain and eventually there was enough that I came to know the truth: God is real and God is good.
Years later, I know that I am blessed that God revealed himself in the way he wanted to instead of how I wanted him to do it. It has yielded tremendous benefit for me. I’m not yet detailing the exact events of those six months, but I will later (it may be in the playback too).
God bless you all!
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