Suikoden Unlocking True Runes

For those who don't want to wait to unlock the True Rune magic here is solution. I didn't like waiting, So I set out to create the codes for it a while ago. Here you go! (Also, special thanks to Pyriel for helping me convert the raw code data into hex)

Suikoden I

Souleater Unlock

3016E724 0004

Suikoden II

Bright Shield Unlock***

3006AF58 003F

Suikoden IV

Punishment Unlock

0053B471 00000004

No Self-Damage from Rune of Punishment (God I love this code, makes the rune not suck!)

0053B479 00000001

Suikoden V****

Dawn Unlock

006E0ED8 00000004

***Suikoden 2 Glitch for using the unlock code***

Problem: A glitch that comes from using the Forgiver's Sign unlock code. It comes right before you're suppose to get the rune attack unlocked for real in the normal way. Right after you fight the golden wolf in Muse and finish collecting the other 108, your suppose to have a small scene in the main room, next to the tablet of promise and the scene with Kiba entering Shu's room to talk about the next battle. Apparently, those 2 scenes will NOT show up if the code had been enabled earlier in the game. So your basically you're stuck without the storyline advancing.

Solution: After Golden Wolf fights in Muse, finish collecting the last 108 characters, go to your inn and talk to Hilda save your game. Open your cheat device (gameshark, codebreaker, pec) and change the 3006AF58 003F to 3006AF58 0000. Load the saved game from the memory card way (NO savestates for this part). Check Riou's Bright Shield rune it should be back to 3 magic attacks. Save the game once again. Restart once more, this time with no codes enables, you should still have the 3 rune attacks. Go to the tablet of stars, and watch the scene (the background will be a strange black) unfold with Shu, Apple, etc.. Dont go forward when it's over, but rather go back to the tavern. Now everything is cool, you can go see Kiba and Shu in his room and do whatever. When you're ready advance the story to the next scene and get the Forgiver Sign the natural way. SO really you've missed out on nothing. NO probs!

****Suikoden V Item to note****

With the other games, you use the codes once and they are unlocked. Suikoden V is different in that if you want to keep using the all 4 of the dawn rune attacks, the code needs to remain active. In otherwords, you can't load the code, quit the game, restart, and still expect the attacks to be there. You'll need to upload the code each time you play in order have access to the full power of the dawn rune. The attacks will still unlock normally through out the storyline game like normally, but seeing as how you dont get the 3rd level until like 70% of the way finished and the 4th level attack until like the final segment 98% of the game, I think it is worth it.

Good gaming!!!

What's In A Name?

What's In A Name?

Are names really important?

1. Often we'll read or see long genealogies in the bible and gloss over them or skip them entirely

2. Today does the meaning of name always reflect that person character or attitude? No. (IE brad means broad meadow)

3. In Ancient times, people names did have an important, though sometimes subtle, clue about their nature.

4. Do names have importance to God? Yes and No. No, in that a name doesn't totally define a man, but yes, in that by naming something does some value, power, and authority get tied into it?

5. In the Beginning of Gen, we see God the Father excising to 2 aspects of paternal authority, which were creator and author. He made the universe and everything in it and then gave it a name (except the animals). Just as today, this tradition continues, parents make a child, and then when it’s born they name it.

6. In Genesis 2:19-20, We see God, sharing this authority with his newest and greatest creation: man, which he called Adam. He then invites Adam, this unique creature, made in the image of God to share in the divine process to give names to the animals and other living creature, who though made by God, lacked the spirit (breathe nooma/ruha), God had only put it into Adam. Furthermore when God makes Adam a helper, it is he who names her 'woman' (G 2:23) and again after the fall, Adam specifically names her "Eve" G 3:20. Later on though, we see Eve partaking in this naming process. She names her 3 sons (Cain, Abel, Seth)

7. Going back to what's in a name, For the ancients again names where small clues about the person or some circumstance surrounding that person life.

Bible is chalk full of Examples:

Cain- bring forth- first time a human was ever brought forth in the "conventional" way

Abel- means temporary- he didn't last very long did he.?

-Abraham- father of many nations (how many nations trace back to him today)

- Jacob- grasp the heal or deceiver, he was both in his story

-Ruth - friend, -Noami- delight, Maria-bitter, 2 sons Mahlon, "sick" Chilion, "weakening" Boaz str in him

-Moses - to draw forth - Who drew Israel out of bondage?

-Emmanuel- God with us, That was literal wasnt it..lol

Classic Gospel example of Names Meaning:

Adam -Man

Seth - Appointed

Enosh -Mortal

Kenan Sorrow;

Mahalalel The Blessed God

Jared -Shall come down

Enoch- Teaching

Methuselah -His death shall bring

Lamech -The Despairing

Noah -Rest, or comfort.

(Side note of Methuselah (his death shall bring) died the same year of the flood

The first 10 name genealogy in the Bible gives us a code, which summarizes the gospel

Man appointed mortal sorrow, the Blessed God shall come down preaching his death shall being the despairing comfort.

7. Adam was the first man, and gave the animals names and his wife and by extension his family and got the process started, and here we are 1000s of years later we still walk in the precedent he got from God by again, naming those which were are responsible for namely our children. However Adam is not the only 'man'. The Bible calls Christ the 2nd Adam, and this Adam comes to finish and repair the work of the 1st Adam who allowed sin and death to enter the world (Romans 5).

8. The interesting thing is that is that this new Adam , Jesus also had a habit of giving new names to things. The classic example being Simon to Peter. However, the Bible tells us that those who are saved and in the Lord will one day not only get a new Body (1 cor 15), but a new name (rev 2:15).

9. I can't help but wonder if the Lambs Book of life (rev 20), which has the names of all the righteous written in it, has our earthly name, or perhaps our heavenly names, maybe both...who knows..its only conjectures, but it is interesting to think about.

10. What is really important is that right now God has given us a name. When Moses said to God, who shall I say sent me, in other words what is your name God so i can tell those guys what God to praise or be anger at. God response was not a noun like we'd would expected, My name is "Baal" "Zesus" "Apollo" "Isis" etc.... God answer was a verb: "To be" or "I Am" or Yahweh or I AM what I AM . However you phrase it. When God did that world, the world changed forever, ripples were started. 1400 years later, the World changed again with even bigger ripples were made. When God himself put on a robe of humanity and paid the price for our sins on a cross. That time he gave us a new name to be saved (and it was a noun..yay) This name literally means to save. That name was Jesus Christ, and as Peter declared: Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other NAME given under heaven by which we must be saved.” So will your trust in that Name today, so you can have yourself a New Name, a better Name, one that is forever...

My Creator King (Timelapse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQt99OnCmW0

My Testimony of Jesus Christ

With October around the corner, I realized it’s been nearly seven years since the Lord called me His own. I wasn’t looking for him, but he found me anyways. As I reflect on the radical changes that have come about in my life since that faithful decision, I mirth at all the ways He has used one as unusual as I. He saved me once, he saves me still…

My Testimony (abridged version)

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, my eternal destiny and earthly purpose would change this night after a class with only one sincere question and one simple prayer in ways I am only now beginning to understand. When at 9:25pm that evening, I was standing at the bottom steps of the Student Union building of my University with two seemingly mundane choices before me. The first was to go outside to my car, drive 5 minute to my apartment, and sleep. The second was to walk up those set of stairs as I had done a few times before to an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship function, which had already ended but people still love to hang around and talk afterward.

Like a fool arguing aloud with myself about what I should do, go home or visit; a little voice inside me said “just go up what do you have to lose”. So I did. Once there I started talking with a really good friend named Tim, who asked me in the sincerest tone I have heard in my life, “Brad, what is keeping you from having a personal relationship with Christ?” Dumbstruck by this sincerity in voice, and not wanting to give a cheap answer, I thought about it silently to myself for many moments and then quietly replied more so to answer myself, then Tim, I said …”nothing”. So I went into another room and with Tim’s help, I prayed and accepted Christ.

Later, I got home at 11pm-ish, after having spent a few hours more talking with Tim, as I settled in for the night, I turned on the news to hear about a report of a car accident right beside my apartment, in fact the very intersection I just drove through moments before, one which had no debris or road flares or anything to suggest that an accident had happened recently. The next morning as I read the paper looking for more info about this wreck, I found an article that said the time of the accident was 9:30pm. As I stated before, it takes me 5 minutes to drive home and at 9:25 I looked at my watch deciding to go up those stairs and have life and soul forever changed, as my jaw dropped in disbelief, that same small voice I heard before, spoke to me again saying “I saved you twice last night, once from the accident as well as eternally. Brad, I am real, and I love you”.

Jesus is real and he does love you, so much that he died to save you, even when you weren't looking or asking to be saved. So, I ask you just as sincerely as it was asked of me, What is keeping YOU from having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ today?

Recognizing Counterfeits Week 1: Identity Theft: God vs Satan

These are the notes from the 3 week counterfeit series, I taught on Wed night. Some of it may not make complete sense because they're notes...lol But most of the information is pretty good; I hope.

Theme Verse: "In order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.” ~2 Corinthians 2:11

How do we identify counterfeits? We Identify something false by putting it next to the truth. CS Lewis said, we know a crooked line by a straight line.

Thus, as is pertains to God. What is Truth according to the Bible.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the Truth, and the life. ~John 14:6

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is Truth. ~John 17:17

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is Truth. ~Psalm 119:142

Sometimes recognizing fakes is EASY...

Other times its Harder Unless someone shows you..

Again we Identify fakes by the standard of the Original. So how has Satan tried to ID theft God? The Bible actually give several examples.

The Character of God and the Copy

God =

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ~ Genesis 1:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth – Ecc. 12:1

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ~ Isaiah 40:28

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. ~ Romans 1:25

Satan =

You said in your heart,
"I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.“ ~ Isaiah 14: 13-14

Conclusion God is Creator and Satan wants to be "like the Most High". However Satan CAN'T create nor can man. ONLY God can create. To make something from nothing; only God can do that. Satan, angels, and Men can copy, manipulate, modify, change existing materials, but no one but God can Truly Create Something from nothing.

Creator vs. Counterfeit

Holy Trinity

God the Father

Jesus Christ

Holy Spirit

1 John 5:7, Matt 28:19

“Unholy trinity”

Satan, the Dragon

Antichrist , The Beast

False Prophet

Rev 12:9, Rev 16:13, Rev 20:10

Jesus vs the Antichrist. Remember the word "Anti" doesnt not always mean against or opposed to something. The word can also mean "like", a substitute for, in place of. So the Antichrist isnt just someone who is apparently and oppositional opposed to Christ, but rather is like him, pretending or masquerading as him. That is how the Bible portrays him as false would-be savior, not an obvious big bad evil hell-bent on global rule or destruction.

20 examples of counterfeits in the Bible

Conclusions:

The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders ~ 2 Thess. 2:9

If we know the Truth and are familiar with it, just like the dollars, we'll be able to easily identify the fakes. So let us press into our mighty Creator God Jesus Christ.

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me ~ Jon 14:6

Recognizing Counterfeits Week 2: The Biblical Gospel and false gospels

These are the notes from the 3 week counterfeit series, I taught on Wed night. Some of it may not make complete sense because they're notes...lol But most of the information is pretty good; I hope.

Theme Verse: "In order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.” ~2 Corinthians 2:11

How do we identify counterfeits? We Identify something false by putting it next to the truth. CS Lewis said, we know a crooked line by a straight line.

Thus, as is pertains to God. What is Truth according to the Bible.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the Truth, and the life. ~John 14:6

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is Truth. ~John 17:17

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is Truth. ~Psalm 119:142

God warns many times in Scripture:

Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. ~ Acts 20:30

The greatest threats and harm to the Christian Gospel have never been from without, but from within as the Bible and History both attest too.

After Reading Paul letter to Galatians one can see the problems of what happens when a false gospel sneaks into the community. In Gal 1:6-12. Paul lays certain contrasts and facts about both kinds of Gospels:

Characteristics of a False Gospel

1.Confusion and Perversion

2.They will be accursed or condemned

3.Tries to please or win the approval of men

4.Preached to others

5.Man-made: received by teaching from man

Characteristics of the Gospel

1.Calling to Grace in Christ

2.Of God, and pleasing to him

3.Servant of Christ

4.Preached to others

5.Received by Revelation from Christ

Quick Bios of some of the Counterfeits we'll be looking at:

Jehovah's Witnesses (or Watch Tower)- Founded in 1879 by C.T. Russell for the original purposes of preparing people for the coming of Christ, the Kingdom and end of the world.

Mormonism (or Latter Day Saints)- Founded in the 1830s by Joseph Smith and later Brigham Young, for the purpose of revealing the existence of an ancient record containing the fullness of the Gospel of Christ that had been written on 2 gold tablets and revealed to Smith by the “angel” Moroni.

Christian Science (Church of Christ, Science)- Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 for the purposes of providing healing, without medicine, by using Jesus’ teaching, prayer, and faith.

Who is Jesus Christ?

Biblical Gospel:

Jesus is the King, Lord, and Messiah (Christ). He is the First and the Last. He is the Only Begotten Son of God, the Radiance of God’s Glory, the Exact Representation of His Being, the Image of the Invisible God, the Word, and the Word was God. The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us. From the patriarchs is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised Amen.

(John 3:16, Rev 22:13, 1 Tim 6:15, Heb 1:3, Col 1:15, John 1:1,15, Rom 9:5)

Jehovah's Witnesses: Jesus was the 1st creation, Before and After the 1st Coming he was Michael the Archangel. He was sinless and virgin born, but human only, became Christ at his Baptism. (http://www.religionfacts.com/jehovahs_witnesses/beliefs.htm)

Mormonism: Jesus is the son of God, but Jesus was the firstborn spirit child of many other spirit children. Lucifer was also as a son. Both contended for the privilege of taking a body of flesh in order to become the redeemer. (Doctrine &Covenant 93:21, Book Moses 4:1-4)

Christ was begotten by an immortal father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal father." (Mormon Doctrine p.547)

Christian Science: Jesus was the promised Messiah, however Jesus only “embodied the divinity of God but that he himself was not Deity” (http://christianscience.com/questions/questions-christian-science-faq/)

The Issues of Sin and Evil in the World

Biblical Gospel:

God said, "Cursed is the ground because of you [Adam]. Creation groans because its subjected to the bondage of decay and sin. Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin. One day, Jesus will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.

(Gen 3:17, Rom 8:20-22, Rom 5:12, Rev 21:4)

Jehovah's Witnesses: The disobedience of the first couple caused death to enter the world, and as a result, all human beings get sick, age, and die. This is against God's plan, which was to make the entire Earth a paradise. ("What is God's Purpose for the Earth?” www.watchtower.org)

Mormonism: Adam/Eve became mortal—just as we are—subject to sin, disease, all types of suffering, and ultimately death. But it wasn’t all bad because they could now feel great joy. “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” If they hadn’t eaten the fruit, Mankind never would have been born or the world populated. (http://www.mormon.org/plan-of-happiness/ and 2 Nephi 2:25)

Christian Science: Baker said “Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, or thing, but simply a belief, an illusion of the material sense.” (pg. 71, Science and Health with Keys to the Scriptures)

State of Humanity

Biblical Gospel:

Jesus said, “out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.” There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. Evil desires give birth to sin, sin when matured gives birth to death. The wages of sin is death. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

(Mark 7:20-23, Rom 3:10,James 1:15, Rom 6:23; 3:23)

Jehovah's Witnesses: Do not emphasize the spiritual consequences of Adam's sin on humanity nor they teach that human free will has been damaged. Rather, they expect members to strive to do God's will and remain pure in his eyes. (“God’s Servants must be Clean.” www.watchtower.org)

Mormonism: Adam’s sin had no impact on man’s ability to choose, people have complete free will to choose good or evil, to follow God or not. Children are incapable of sinning until the age of 8, when they become accountable. (http://www.mormon.org/plan-of-happiness and "Core Beliefs and Doctrines." LDS.org.)

Christian Science: Man is sick, sinful, and dying and in need of divine healing. This sin-sickness, however, is in the mind, and not material. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. (S&H 468, http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm)

Crucified, Dead, Raised, and Ascension

Biblical Gospel:

They put Jesus to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. He didn’t let his Holy One see decay. God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen by…us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. When God raised Jesus from the dead, he seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.

(Acts 2:30; Acts 10:30, Eph 1:21)

Jehovah's Witnesses: Jesus was crucified on a stake, not a cross. While dead God destroyed his physical body. When he returned to heaven, he didn’t receive all power and authority until 1914. ("Who is Jesus Christ?“ www.watchtower.org)

Mormonism: Jesus died on a cross and rose 3 days later, ascended to heaven, but later returned to earth, this time coming to the Americas to preach the Gospel to the Indians, who were decedents of the Israelites. ("Who is Jesus Christ?" Mormon.org. Book of Mormon).

Christian Science: acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures p. 496)

Salvation: The Atonement of Sin

Biblical Gospel:

You have been set free from sin, because he knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. He reconciled all things to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. This Priest offered for all time one sacrifice for sins. “It is Finished!” Now we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Rom 6:18, 2 Cor 5:21, Col 1:20, Heb 10:12, John 19:30, Rom 5:1, Eph 2:8, Rom 6:23b)

Jehovah's Witnesses: Christ's death covers the sin of Adam. But eternal life comes not simply from faith in Jesus but from "learning about Jehovah and obeying his requirements," proving oneself to be God's loyal subject, and listening to the Kingdom message and acting on it. (http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_00.htm)

Mormonism: Jesus paid for sins on the cross, but some sins were not atoned for, and can only be atoned for by your own blood only (Journal of Discourses: Vol 4. p.53)

"One of the most pernicious doctrines ever advocated by man, is the doctrine of 'justification by faith alone”(Joseph F. Smith, pg. 192 of The Restoration of All Things)

“One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan...that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation.“ (Spencer W. Kimball, pg 206, Faith and Works).

Christian Science: Salvation is achieved through progressive spiritual understanding. A person is not saved from hell – but from his or her belief in materiality; sin, sickness and death are destroyed(Science and Health, 593:20-22.)

Afterlife: (Judgment/Heaven/Hell)

Biblical Gospel:

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. They will have to give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's only begotten Son. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

(Heb 4:13, 1 Peter 4:5, John 3:18, Dan 12:3)

Jehovah's Witnesses: Dead are raised and judged, with one last chance to gain eternal life. There is no Hell, the wicked are annihilated. 144,000 of JW will rule in Heaven with Jesus, and the other righteous will go to a restored paradise (Eden) on Earth. ("Beliefs: God, Man, and the Future” Watchtower, July 15, 2002.)

Mormonism: Final Judgment all stand before God, Jesus, and Joseph Smith to give an account. Unrighteous who were previously in hell, get 1 last chance to repent, or face eternal damnation. Righteous go to Heaven and those took part in a special sealing ritual on earth get be come to gods too. ("What is heaven like?“"Death is another beginning”."What does the Church teach about hell?" Mormon.org)

Christian Science: There is No Final Judgment. Heaven and Hell are a state of mind. Each must choose their own path. (http://christianscience.com/questions/questions-christian-science-faq/)

My Personal Conclusions:

The Jw are nothing but False Prophets and have Failed Predictions: Examples:

1874- Coming of Christ

1878- Resurrection of Dead

1881- Time of the Gentiles was fulfilled

1914- Armageddon

1918- Christendom would be destroyed

1925- Est. of the Kingdom

1975- End of the World

Joseph Smith, Young, and other founders were either deceived spiritually or were just complete fakes who wanted to satisfy their sexual lusts; or both.

Smith: “. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet . . . " (History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409).

Young: “And he that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is Antichrist," (Journal of Discourses, vol. 9, p. 312).

Christian Science is a "Doctrine of Demons” posing as New Age Gnosticism using Christian Themes

•Threefold nature of God, defining it as a trinity of "Life, Truth, and Love," or "God the Father-Mother, Christ the spiritual idea of sonship, and divine Science or the Holy Comforter" (Science and Health 331:26-332:3).

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•Creation is entirely spiritual and perfect and matter does not exist. Sin, sickness and death also do not exist; we only think they do. (Science and Health, 472:27-29).

You can watch the video I gave while giving this particular talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0hna8QQyL0