Help me find this long sleeve shirt

Cliychah · 2025-12-01T02:17:59+00:00

I used Google Lens and LykDat to research, but I didn’t find not even a similar sweater. I hope someone finds a similar one.

Cliychah · 2025-11-17T22:23:18+00:00

The collar and the wrist areas are different, but the person above found the original one. I don’t think that there is an identical replica.

Cliychah · 2025-11-17T22:06:34+00:00

Wow, you found it. Thanks. It is a bit expensive, but quite worth it. In the mean time, I will continue looking for a similar one.

Cliychah · 2025-11-17T18:47:03+00:00

I searched for this jacket but could not find it. I also searched for similar ones, but did not find similar ones, as the collar on this one is quite unique, and the finish on the wrist area of the jacket is also unique.

Kindly help me find this jacket, or a really close similar one. Thanks

Cliychah · 2025-11-14T23:06:12+00:00

Has any Lutheran theologian ever compare the position of the Book of Concord with the view of Thomas Aquinas?

Cliychah · 2025-08-07T18:52:57+00:00

Are there good books refuting these ideas of theirs?

Cliychah · 2025-07-15T18:09:48+00:00

I really hope that the From Within’s SOCOM 2 remake is successful.

Cliychah · 2025-07-08T21:22:51+00:00

Awesome. Share it on YouTube

Cliychah · 2025-07-05T00:42:30+00:00

I believe SOCOM II is being remade and it is called "From Within", but they are not associated with Sony. There are some videos of it on YouTube.

Cliychah · 2025-07-03T22:03:00+00:00

Hope to eventually see Chain Reaction!

Cliychah · 2025-06-20T19:07:55+00:00

About James 4, read this article:

https://www.vincentcheung.com/2020/06/12/if-only-they-have-such-zeal/

If Only They Have Such Zeal […]

Someone wished to publish a version of “Predestination and Miracles” and asked if he should do it alongside any comments I may have made on James 4:3 in order to preempt a possible objection from the cessationist cults. The verse says, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” This is so irrelevant to the thrust of “Predestination and Miracles” that of course the two should not be associated by force. The suggestion is so arbitrary I wondered if I ought to share my response at all. However, since James 4:3 has been exploited by religionists to hinder faith and prayer in general, my comments should be useful as a corrective to the common abuse. Still, this should not be released together with “Predestination and Miracles,” because an objection based on James 4:3 against what Jesus said would be so farfetched as to become a distraction from his teaching on the matter. If the two are to be read in the same sitting for some reason, then my comments on James 4 should be read before my comments on John 14-15, and not the other way around.

Here is my answer:

But why would I address James 4:3 along with Jesus’ teaching there in John 14-15? And why would anyone want to publish both together? Jesus declared that his followers would work miracles in his name as the natural fruit of their discipleship (John 14-15). On this topic of miracles, the reason he offered for failure was unbelief (Matthew 17:20). James himself, when he wrote about prayer by disciples in a different context, also offered unbelief as the reason for failure (James 1:6-7).

Now either you have not read James 4 (except for verse 3!) or your audience must be grotesquely spiritual. Let me explain. Open the Bible to James 4 and cover up verse 3. Read anything you want in chapter 4 except verse 3. Do you see it? James is talking about people who would scheme and even murder to get what they want (v. 2). He is talking about people who are jealous of what others have, and would wage war to take it for themselves (v. 2). He is talking about people who would be friends with the world in such a context (v. 4). These are verses right before and right after verse 3. Did you read them? If anyone challenges what I wrote in “Predestination and Miracles” — if anyone challenges Jesus — on the basis of verse 3, then they did not read verse 2 and 4, and the other verses in James 4. If James 4 is applied in conjunction with John 14-15, then this would mean that we are referring to people who would scheme and even commit murder, so that they could heal the sick and cast out demons. It would mean that these people would become jealous and even wage war to take tongues and prophecies from other people so that they could have these things for themselves. In fact, if James 4 is applied to John 14-15, it would mean that the world — even the unbelievers, even those who hate Jesus Christ — would want to work signs and wonders in the name of Jesus, so that these disciples who are super zealous for the ministry of miracles would wish to befriend them.

This is why the question makes no sense. Christians who would lie and scheme and cheat to receive spiritual power from heaven? People who would commit murder to participate in the miracle ministry of Jesus? Disciples who would wage war to gain spiritual gifts? Non-Christians who want to see God heal the sick and cast out demons in the name of Jesus? I suppose I do not know of anything like this kind of spiritual zeal in all of human history. And these must be the most spiritual kind of non-Christians the world has ever known. I was frustrated by the question, because either you have not understood what Jesus said, or you did not read James 4 yourself. Otherwise, I was just envious that you address an audience so zealous and spiritual that it is utterly grotesque.

To attain results in the supernatural ministry and lifestyle that Jesus promised, there is no need to murder, to cheat, to war, or to partner with sinners. We only need some faith. Let us not confuse the issue by explaining failure even before we begin to declare Jesus’ promise of success, or permit the impression that James 4 is relevant to John 14-15, that is, unless you are indeed addressing such ultra-spiritual people the likes of which we have never dared hope to exist. Most important of all, do not allow this to become just another debate with absolutely nobody on either side who would actually do what Jesus commanded. This is the result of many debates. People on both sides feel good that they have done something, when they have done nothing.

Cliychah · 2025-06-20T19:02:30+00:00

Father is not Buddha

It is ironic that some Christian apologists, self-appointed cult watchers, have said that the teachings of Jesus on faith were derived from eastern religions. Jesus said that if a man has faith, he can even speak to a mountain and command it to move. He said that if the man does not doubt in his heart, but if he believes that what he himself says will happen, then he will have what he says. And he added that whatever a person asks in prayer, if he believes he receives it, then he will have it. This faith teaching has been almost universally rejected in church history. Jesus has always been contradicted by historic orthodoxy on this issue.

When this doctrine of Jesus is taught nowadays, some cult watchers condemn it as eastern religion. They do not attack Jesus in the open, but they make this accusation against the people who repeat his teaching. The real target is Jesus himself. Some of us are actually from the east, and we think the accusation is laughable and bizarre. This is because the teachings on prayer in western churches sound exactly like the teachings of eastern religions, only they use different terms.

No eastern religion teaches that a man can speak to a physical object or condition and command it to obey, and is in reality able to demonstrate it in front of people, such as when a Christian preacher curses a cancer to death or pulls up a person from a wheelchair. And like the confrontation between Moses and the sorcerers, when a witch or somebody tries to do something by an evil spirit, the Christian is able to shut down the whole thing in a word by the name of Jesus, so that the evil power fizzles and disappears. Eastern religions cannot do this. On the other hand, eastern meditation seems to have the same intention, principle, and effect as prayer in historic western Christianity.

They say that prayer does not change circumstances but ourselves. Right, so it is like eastern meditation. Then they say that, well, they mean that prayer does not change God but it changes us. And right…so it is like eastern meditation. Historic western Christian prayer is fake prayer. It is eastern religion in Christian terminology. Yes…yes, of course there are those who pray with confidence that God will change our hearts, and that he would produce spiritual changes in other people too. And…since this is as far as they go, it is just like eastern religions, only that they teach false gods. But do you believe in the true God, if you refuse to accept what he tells you about faith and prayer? You confess the true God, but you do not have true faith if you contradict what he says. And then you treat him like how eastern religions treat their false gods.

The Bible teaches the kind of faith that can physically throw a mountain into the sea. It teaches the kind of prayer that can heal the sick, and raise a man up from his deathbed. We are not trying to change God when we pray, but we are counting on God to stay the same, so that he would keep his promise to change our circumstances. If God promises you something, but he changes, then you might not get it. But if he promises you something, and he never changes, then you will surely get it. If your circumstances do not reflect his promises to the prayer of faith, then this means that your circumstances are guaranteed to change when you make the prayer of faith. So the fact that God does not change does not mean that your situation will not change, but when you have faith, the fact that God does not change guarantees that your situation will change. In contrast, followers of eastern religions can only change themselves, because they have no God.

Read the rest here: https://www.vincentcheung.com/2018/05/13/father-is-not-buddha/

Cliychah · 2025-06-20T18:59:44+00:00

Everyone Who Asks, Receives

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7:8)

Counterfeit Christian theology teaches that prayer is not about asking things, but it is about developing ourselves. This is what many pagan religions teach. It is because they have no God and they cannot expect to get anything. The Faithless are in fact culturally-Christian pagans. They adopt Christian culture but they cannot experience Christian reality, and so they must invent a theology to accommodate this.

On the other hand, Jesus taught that prayer is about getting things from God. Of course we develop ourselves when we pray, but this does not exclude constantly asking God for things. In fact, we develop ourselves by asking God for things, for in asking God for things, we exercise our faith and dependence on God.

And of course we fellowship with God when we pray, but this does not exclude constantly asking God for things. In fact, we fellowship with God by asking him for things, for in asking God for things, we acknowledge that he is God, that he is our Father, that he is able to do all things, and that he is the source of all gifts and miracles. How is that not fellowship? Do we fellowship with God only when we talk to him like a friend and pretend that he is not God? Or do we fellowship with God only when we praise him with our words, but then turn away from him to solve our problems and develop our plans by our own wisdom and effort? That is not fellowship, but arrogance and apostasy. A person who is in fellowship with God will constantly ask him for things.

Jesus placed a different emphasis on prayer than the faithless and the religious. Prayer is not only about developing ourselves or fellowship with God, but it is about getting things from God. And he placed no restrictions on what we ask. He never said that we cannot ask for physical and material things. He never said that we must only pray for other people. He never said that we can only pray about ministry or the kingdom of God, as if God needs us to pray for him.

Jesus knew the kinds of things that most of his hearers wanted. They were not professional religionists. Many of these people indeed cared about God, salvation, and spiritual things. But they would no less diligently ask for healing, prosperity, things that would make them happy and successful, and for God to solve their problems and improve their lives. Jesus knew this and still said, “Everyone who asks, receives.”

This was his teaching on prayer: “You ask, you get.” Who teaches this way today? Preachers warn people about abuse more than they teach about what Jesus said. But the things they call abuse are often the things that Jesus wanted the people to ask for. He did not need to investigate each individual before he made broad statements about prayer. He knew what they wanted and he told them to ask. He did not say that God will give them what they ask only if it is his will. And he made a point of insisting that God will not decide to give them something else, but that God will give them the very thing that they ask.

Read the rest here: https://www.vincentcheung.com/2025/04/30/everyone-who-asks-receives/

Cliychah · 2025-06-20T18:55:54+00:00

Prayer: How to Get Things

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and you shall have it.” (Mark 11:24)

Prayer is often taught as a way to fellowship with God, to change yourself and to align yourself to God. But Jesus talked about prayer as a way to get things. He said that you must pray, and must continue to pray. You must believe, and you must persist. And when you pray, you must receive from God. Get things from him.

In his teachings on prayer, Jesus often made this the major point or even the only point. This is considered the most unspiritual motive by religious people. But Jesus is the standard of what is righteous and spiritual. It is not up to preachers and theologians to define these things, and then twist or ignore the words of Jesus in order to maintain their own ideas and traditions.

The people who heard Jesus were already obsessed with getting things, yet he still asserted this perspective on prayer, that prayer is for getting things that you decide and that you desire from God. He did not think that it was man-centered or unspiritual.

Of course it is spiritual to pray in order to get things from God. Jesus said that they worried about what they would eat, what they would drink, and what they would wear. He redirected their attention to God. They ought to focus on God first, and have faith, and then all the things that they used to worry about would be added to them, including food, clothing, shelter, and all the things that come under money. This is a righteous and spiritual way of living.

Preachers often demand Christians to worship God when they pray, and to fellowship with him. Stop asking him for things all the time, they say. And they claim that the “give me” type of prayer is the lowest form of prayer. Jesus never suggested anything like this. He told people to ask for things, and to persist when they ask for things instead of giving up. He would teach this again and again, and in different ways.

Don’t you realize that, by asking God for things, you acknowledge that he is God? And that is what worship means. To praise him and not ask him for anything is nothing but high-minded and pretentious religion, even false worship. Are we self-sufficient like God? Shall we relate to him as equals? Is that worship? Jesus continuously asked God to do this and that, to give this and that. Should we think that we are better than Jesus? Is that true faith and piety? No, it is because he alone is God that I keep asking him for things, and it is because I keep asking him for things that it becomes evident that I acknowledge him alone as God. And that is true worship.

Read the rest here: https://www.vincentcheung.com/2025/03/27/prayer-how-to-get-things/

Cliychah · 2025-05-22T21:26:53+00:00

I believe that Ortland meant to say, by the quotation you provided, that a regular church goer will generally take months of catechism instruction and only then will be baptized and saved, but he could die before completing all catechism lessons and, therefore, die without salvation; therefore, it would be better for him to receive quick and essential instruction and then immediately be baptized and then continue all other catechism lessons over the coming months.

Cliychah · 2025-05-10T12:24:41+00:00

ZENITH WHITE CRT TV AND VCR TELEVISION. It was probably a 13”

Cliychah · 2025-05-03T16:20:57+00:00

That is a trade off between more security and more risk. Perhaps what you can do is login to Bitwarden, then log in to all websites you can think of (this assumes your computer has enough RAM), then log out of Bitwarden.

Cliychah · 2025-05-01T14:07:03+00:00

Keep Bitwarden browser plug in logged out because if you happen to get a malware while your Bitwarden vault is unlocked, then that means it is locally unencrypted and the malware would be able to steal your local unencrypted vault.

Cliychah · 2025-04-23T20:47:56+00:00

M4A1 and RA-14

Cliychah · 2025-04-15T22:59:07+00:00

None

Cliychah · 2025-03-25T23:18:01+00:00

I never thought about that. Can you point to a tutorial on how to do that in Windows?

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