About Me
L.A. = Logikal Aspects (Mindstate a.k.a One-I & Optiks Kadatonik a.k.a Born Bazine) are a Toronto, Scarborough, Megacity based duo and are bloodbrothers which play all instruments, acoustic and digital pioneers. Own and recordn on high quality equipment and studios, use many modules and soundboard, also plug-ins. Optiks Kadatonik aka Yishai the EMpyrean aka Jessei J aka Born Bazine is especially great and professionaly advanced at drums and percussion while Mystic Mindstate aka Anemos Nawadaha aka One-1 aka Grant is astonishingly breathetaking at the bass, keys and sax, hence they have been playing (and owned) these instruments since 5 years of age and have been continuosly practicing since. Also there whole family is filled with musicians, some which are very well recognized in the classic rock, acoustic, bluegrass, country, blues, jazz and folk scene.
Logikal Aspectz make custom beats not only for Omega Empire Communication'z but for other artists as well, for they have sold a few thousand to many artists world-wide as well as soundtracks and advertisments. They're prices vary depending on situations and total packages.
Logikal Aspex have been producing (making instrumentals) since 2003 when Meda Men aka Farmaki of Omega EMpire, O.E.C. hooked them up with hudreds of progams and millions of sounds, showed them the ropes and signed them on Omega EMpyre Communication's aka OEC aka 2013 & Aftah Squadron!
L.A. is far from self-righteous, mislead, worldly, out for cash and fame, prideful, egoistic and ignorant. So lets talk about and show the important things in life to one another and display positive and accurate truth rather than personal text about self and OEC music.JUDE 1-4
1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
PHILLIPIANS
2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
YESHUA HAMASSIACH said:
John 15:12 - "This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you." words of Jesus Christ (NKJV)
“bless them that curse you,†and “pray for them which despitefully use you†(Luk.6:28)Remember: Stay-on-target! These will be perilous time. Do not give into hate or rioting, and DO NOT MURDER (Gen.9:5-6). The Rainbow Covenant still stands, always trust YHWH and HIS plan for Humanity.
Help your neighbor, DO NOT give into rioting. Our personal fate will be decided in our CREATOR'S Great White Throne Room according to ones individual actions.
Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.
His [Jesus] disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it." - The Gospel of Thomas.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. - 2nd Corinthians 13:8
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
OR
Cling to your comfort blanket your mommy, mainstream media (television, radio, magazine, books = man made, thus satan influenced and pagan in origin) gave you all you want. Hold on to your sci-fi influenced fantasy world and self-made agnostic (atheistic, self-god, alien) version of what you "think" truth as long as your on EARTH until your 1st death (physical death #1). FOR THESE THINGS will not allow you to enter the final kingdom of eternity.
•"Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. In this fast paced world of pagers, email, and cell phones, few can find the spiritual rest and peace of mind that they so desperately need. Unfortunately, even some churches are filled with politics and power struggles, as if we don’t get enough of that at work! "Be still and know that I am God". Psalm 46 Our spirit needs to be rested and recharged so we will be better able to cope with the day-to-day struggles of life.
Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up!
SPIRITUAL TRAINING:
Spiritual training (pneumatike gymnasia) is askesis for peity. It is most valuable, "having promise for the life that now is, and for that which is to come." The efforts made for the sake of piety bring spiritual gladness.
Theophylaktos says: "Train yourself for piety, that is, for pure faith and the right life. Training, then, and continual efforts are necessary; for he who trains exercises until he perspires, even when there is no contest."
Training accustoms one to be lenient, temperate, capable of controlling his anger, subduing his desires, doing works of charity, showing love for his fellow men, practicing virtue. Training is virtuous askesis, rendering one's way of life admirable.
Askesis is practice, meditation, training, self-control, love of labor.
INNER ATTENTION:
ATTENTION is the first teacher of truth and consequently absolutely necessary. Attention rouses the soul to study itself and its longings, to learn their true character and repulse those that are unholy. Attention is the guardian angel of the intellect, always counseling it this : be attentive. Attention awakens the soul, rouses it from sleep... Attention examines every thought, every desire, every memory. Thoughts, desires, and memories are engendered by various causes, and often appear masked and with splendid garb, in order to deceive the inattentive intellect and enter into the soul and dominate it. Only attention can reveal their hidden form. Often their dissimulation is so perfect that the discerrnment of their true nature is very difficult and requires the greatest attention. One must remember the saving words of the Lord:
"Be wakeful and pray that ye enter not into temptation."
He who is wakeful does not enter into temptation, because he is vigilant and attentive.
Are you AWAKE and being watchful ? Or are you listening and believing what certain men are teaching. If not your work as an evangelist will be hindered and your ministries calling will suffer. that's what Paul said , its not my opinion.
Anyhow, I hope you are doing well and are in good health and I pray that you find the ONE TRUE WAY/NARROW PATH and saty ON IT for the time is NOW. I notice that you have not refuted anything that I/we have said. Instead you have compared humble yet powerful me (thanks to YHWH for the POWER is truly all YHWH's/ELOHIM/HASHEM) to dictators like Hitler, Osama, Lennon, Peter Hans Kolvenbach and Stalin. Nice try, ad hominine attacks will not work. I have not said an unkind/untruthful thing to you or anyone. If you are offended by the TRUTH then thats YOUR PROBLEM as a serveant of SATAN/EVIL/WORLDY NATURE & not my issue. I have merely pointed out the truth (something that you can't handle or accept or even take the time to look into as you prove with your generic ung-dly cloned out just another mortal man ways. I guess trying to insult me and beat around the bush is your way of avoiding a true challenge and question that you can;t beat or answer at this pathetic moment which you stand from.
Read the HOLY Scripture aka Holy Bible and written Prophetic Word of YHWH (Old & New Testament) in as many ancient languages as you can as well as modern and then the extra biblical or other religious books like the Quran for exmaple, with no pre-judgement, then travel, experience and talk to wise elders, scholars, disciples, rabbis, political leaders and scientists/philosophers then decide for yourself what is TRUTH!
If you haven't even completed half of these steps.. How could you even THINK of stepping up to the plate and acting like you know something or know it all? How could you deny something and have faith in somehting you haven't bothered to find and analyse? Thats Hollow faith and a life of lies.
"Truth can withstand scrutiny." No matter what you and I believe, if it is truth we should not be threaten when others questioning it.
Truth is NOT relative. Truth, by definition, is absolute. Opinion, however, IS relative. That is at the base of the discussion regarding the authoritativeness of Scripture.
The problem with these ecumenical discussions is that everyone is under the assumption that all positions are equally true - a false assumption. Another assumption is that all are there to learn. If so, who would teach?
How are we to KNOW which truth is reliable and which is faulty if all positions are equally valid?Faith is the issue, and it always will be. What (or better yet, Who) will you trust? You might be sincere in your faith, but you may also be sincerely wrong. Why not approach the Scriptures with a different tact - the "what if it's true" tact. What are the implications on our lives, our communities, our nations, and our world? What would be the destiny of the millions of people who arrive at a different conclusion?
Everyone must die at some point, and meet the truth. Opinions don't matter at that point. What then? What will be the cost of living a life in rejection of the Bible because you "don't like it" or disagree? If we approach it as "true" and live accordingly (I don't mean perfectly, but the Bible shares the means of dealing with our fallibility), rejecting the Lord's teachings has dire consequences. What are you willing to risk to have your own way rather than the Bible's?
I have faith not for the sake of having a faith, but because it is grounded in the reality of what I see around me, and in the experiences I have had. It is in no way a blind nor ill-informed truth that I claim and I welcome any challenges to it. For I am not perfect, nor have I 'arrived' - there is still much that I can learn. But when I talk to you, I seek the truth - not a truth.It would take very little time to compile a impressive list of little and big things we are in full agreement of. I have never found anybody for instance who disagrees that helping each other is good and that killing each other is not good.
Unfortunately I find many people who think that killing the "infidel" is good. A few very quick examples:
1. Jihadist muslims such as Osama bin Ladin or Abu_Hamza_al-Masri who is considered by most the new Imam Mahdi and I recently saw on TV saying that a non-Muslim in a Muslim country may be sold or killed just as cattle may be sold or killed. These are just some of the latest in a list of murderous Muslims going back to the time of Muhammed.
2. On the Christian side there is the Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church who says "Thank God for IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) and that God hates America because it doesn't execute homosexuals as required by the Bible. He is just the most notorious current example of Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists who would like to replace the Constitution with the Bible.
3. The pagan Adolf Hitler who presided over the mass murders of millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and anyone who didn't follow the Nazi ideology. 4. Murderous Atheists such as Stalin of the Soviet Union, Mao of China and Pol Pot of Cambodia who may have the world champion title for mass murder both in absolute numbers and on a percent of population basis.
We humans are often not nice people whether you want to blame it on original sin/utter depravity of man or being the descendants of killer apes.
Try to find common ground but remember that your fellow human may be a liar, fanatic and monster. Keep your weapon handy. The conclussion drawn is that most everyone seem to be looking for truth by interacting with other humans.
If we are truly seeking the truth, whether there is a God and why we are here and what our purpose is, then we must seek the truth from God Himself. By what we know ourselves, this universe was created with order. God did not create it such and then leave us to wander around aimlessly. I was living in denial at one time in my life and seeking pleasure and my own way of life as I wanted to live it, believing there was a God somewhere out there but with no concern of what my purpose was in this world. I believe that most people believe in a God but have never opened themselves up to know Him. As circumstances occured in my life, I began to pray that the God of this entire universe out there somewhere would allow me to know about Him. I found tht if we abandon ourselves and allow God to show Himself, He is certainly ready and willing to do so. I found that God will reveal Himself thru His Son Iesus Christos.
Much of our problem, is, we don't want to yield our life to anything or anyone else. One must come to Him, and open oneself to the truth.
God worked in my heart to know Him but I had to be willing to accept His plan and not my own.
He sent His Only Begotten Perfect Son Yesus Christos of Nazareth to die for our sins and when we are willing to accept that truth, we are in a position to know God Himself.
Before accepting Christ into my heart I didn't concern myself with others, but one thing I can testify to is that when Christ comes in He changes hearts and I saw others in a different way. God had put a genuine love in my heart for people. Once a person knows God on a personal basis, He will dwell within them for all eternity. How many of you out there are up to the challenge?
John 3:16
Most words R an intellectual exercise and not a spiritual one, and it brings to the fore visceral anti-Judeo-Christian bigotry that Christ warned His followers they would face. Only proves His Word.
Any person BAPTISED in the Judeo-Christian faith cannot become unbaptized. Their soul is marked. They ignore or reject the faith at the peril of their eternal soul. The Judeo-Christian faith has much that can be proven and some that cannot, but is accepted by Christians on the BASIS OF FAITH. We believe there is an omnicient, omnipotent, omnipresent G-d and that man is NOT the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-present being.
This is something that is inexhaustible and not for the selfish. Christ is about SACRIFICE, something that our secularists here do not seem to be able to fathom. There are many testimonies of atheists and people of other faiths who are or become open to grace because of the stirrings of their souls. This could still happen to you, too. It is a profound and liberating things
the Bible's truth is the basic truth. That is, my belief in God *follows* my belief in the Bible. I'm not an evangelical, but I guess my thinking follows the same line.
Our beliefs end up less gray because of this presupposition. If anyone wants to know what I believe, he or she can read the all inerrant and accurate Divine Revelating and Moral self explanatory Holy Scriptures aka Holy Bible.
However, I have to always be cautious to put myself under the Bible, so that it's word molds my beliefs and not the other way around. I can misunderstand the Bible, and thus show myself to be a hypocrite. So I have to constantly read and study the Bible to be sure that my thinking follows what it actually says, and not what I think it says or what I make it out to say. I want to purge myself of my misunderstandings and presuppositions other than the first one I mentioned.
Is this a conversation-stopper? I don't think so. Whenever I engage people of my own or other faiths, they present a challenge to my presoppositions and misunderstandings. I have to listen to these people in order to learn. I don't think my basic presupposition is wrong, but I believe I'm not as faithful to it as I ought to be.
So why are we Judeo-Christian in the Church of Yahweh?
For Heaven's sake, I could have picked any old book to believe in, right? And why would the HOLY SCRIPTURES be the most popular, best selling, many times FREE and accurate, inerrant GOOD BOOK for the last 6,000 years of MANS WHOLE EXISTENCE?
We found that what the Bible teaches about humility, peace, and salvation before God (i.e., the God of the Bible) works in my life. We know the Bible would probably work in other people's lives, but some have their reasons for not following the Bible, so their decision is between them and God.
The many people who seek to write a history of Christianity by means of the history of hypocritical Christian governments ignore a large portion. What about those Christians who gave to their neighbor joyfully in order to fulfill Christ's commands? What about those Christians who prayed for the forgiveness of those who were about to murder them? What about those Christians who fought against slavery, persecution, and poverty because they wanted to fulfill the precepts of the Bible? They didn't usually run governments, but they shouldn't be excluded from a history of Christianity!
No mature Christian would ever expect a person who has had no personal experience with God ( through Christ, the Holy Spirit) to understand the Truth of the Bible. Until that bridge of experience is crossed - it will always be a debate of morals, values and personal convictions to something absolute. The arguments can never be settled. Christians are motivated to present the Truth in Love - leaving the reponse to that persons own free will. Influenced or not, by God. I am grieved to watch North America and the rest of the world turn her face from YHWH, as evidenced by much of the commentary.
At first I was overwhelmed at the many comments, and even frightened by the diversity of ideas which weren't based on any standard, other than personal opinion of one's own thought. Even Postmodern thought at least identifies it's sources, or maybe I've not understood it fully.
I am however encouraged that a conversation is happening, and that ideas and thoughts are being shared, though I'm wondering just how they are being interpreted by others; and I'm wondering how the originator of the conversation is viewing all of this. Having read Dr. Mohler often, I know that his opinions are realy brought forward with humbleness, which merely asks that one look at what he calls truth, and to ask the question if conversation is really posible. If we think about all the conversations that we've had in the last week, did we set a standard of truth before we engaged in them...
Probably not, that's what allows conversation to develop, but if during that time we weren't honest to those we had conversations with, what does that say about us. So I ask why it is so offensive if one states the basis of their belief system.WE know that the Cross of Christ is an offesnse to many, Scripture says this, but yet each one of us has the common denominator of being human. Based on that we need to allow conversations with all that hold to that identity, and unless there are some form of alliens here, everyone has that one thing in common. The truths that we hold to should not keep us from having conversations with those who do not agree with them, yet we who hold to certain truths need to hold them otherwise we are being deceivers.
Interesting conversations going on, it's a reality check on who we bump into as we work, play, and live life with our neighbors. And yes, I beleive that we can have conversations, even if our absolutes in Truth are different, those truths merely identify who we are, and how our actions in living out those truths are perceived by others.
We Christians are stating truths we believe absolutely. You and many others are telling us, absolutely, that we should not advance such convictions upon you. Your absolutes are thus threatening our absolutes. You are preaching against our absolutes by the use of your own.
You said: "My intention is not to advocate anything but the validity of my own opinions and my own emotions."
But in advocating your own, you run up against what we all do: you are declaring my absolute truth invalid. So you are preaching or evangelizing just as I am.
You said: "If someone has a negative opinion about me, whether it's religious or secular, I have a right to feel hurt and invaded." You have a negative opinion toward me as well, because you think that I am hatefully declaring you wrong (which itself is hateful). You are doing the very same thing to me. Do you see this? We true Judeo-Christians don't want to convince you of ideas but simply ask you to becareful and study the TRUE facts which will happen wetehr or not you, I or the world ignores it or not. There is NO escaping prophecies INCLUDING the one's of the end-time. We are living in the 6th Seal and the 7th will be opening approximately in 2008-2010
Has God revealed His truth through the Bible." There are many good reasons that Christians hold this belief, though it is often misunderstood as a product of dogmatics.ANTI BIBLICAL
Your humble wish not to claim a monopoly on truth is to be admired, but your stated intent to hold your view of the Bible as God's "unique... absolute, universal, and timeless revelation" beyond contention and above debate is troublesome.
It places at a disadvantage views that others legitimately hold, if they are not as readily conformed to sciptural dogma as your own.
I believe that in some ways this is a "conversation stopper". To settle so simple an ethical question (and I do say this somewhat tongue in cheek, knowing that the question in modern cultural context seems rather complex) - to settle so simple an ethical question as whether gay partnerships should be given the same status under the law as heterosexual ones, one of three things must happen:
1) a person must convince you of something of which you have absolutely denied the possibility: that the Bible is something other than or less than what you claim;
2) a person must convince you that the near-unanimous understanding of the Bible's teachings (and the one most plainly supported by the text itself) is incorrect;
3) you must convince the non-believer that the Bible is everything you claim.
Otherwise, the non-believer applies the universal ethical rule of "do unto others..." (to which I'm sure you would yourself assent), and will not be dissuaded by theological claims to which they do not assent, while you will continue with your theological views which make the Golden Rule somehow beside the point.
This all can be gotten around, if the non-believer can argue persuasively to you that your faith in the Bible is misplaced, or if you can argue persuasively to the believer that they should join you in your faith. However your unwillingness to be convinced that the Bible does not, in fact, contain God's revelation together with the skeptic's unwillingness to take on faith that it does, makes this a practically insurmountable obstacle to achievement, effectively postponing the ethical question surrounding gay marriage forever.
But there are tons of good reasons to forget all that & go ahead with the interfaith dialogue, especially with such a diverse board of contributors... Because there are a number of ethical and political issues that need addressed by wider audiences, and can be addressed without *necessarily* running up against the theological barriers erected by various factions.
Just a short list that comes to the top of my mind:
Capital punishment
Incarceration (and incarceration and race)
Racism
Environment/Climate change
International peacekeeping/Agressive war
Genocide (in particular the ongoing problems in the Sudan)
The ethics around tax and economic policy
Labor ethics
Teen pregnancy
STDs and AIDS
The list could go on and on. I've prepared a list in my mind of issues that are of equal weight, but which are more likely to suffer from religious factiousness in their discussion. It may be a trivial question when there are so many on the former list, but I'm not certain which list is longer.
I do have a question for those who approach those more contentious questions from a perspective of faith. It need not be answered aloud, but I think it would be worthwhile for all to give it an answer: are you comfortable adopting answers to all those important questions by the necessities imposed by faith, when faith itself (manifested in the variety of religions and religious viewpoints) yields answers that differ from culture to culture and from historical era to historical era?
I feel we should be able to share, in a kind way, what we believe, even if it includes the idea that one believes the Bible to be the revealed Word of God and Jesus Christ the pathway to personal revelation and salvation . There should be no condemnation in one stating what one believes; it is when you start demanding that your way is the only way and you have some exclusive link to God that others do not. Besides, to me, the value of discussions on religion is for me to come to a better understanding of what people of other faiths believe so that I can hopefully gain a better understanding of their perspective on life. We all approach the world with different pairs of glasses on, so to speak. Those glasses can represent our faith, and what we believe in our hearts tints how we see the world and how we react to our environment. It's not so much whether we accept someone else's religious beliefs or not - I'm not here on this website to convert anyone- the idea is to better understand why people of other religions act they way they do and why they feel they way they feel.Eternal life is not only duration of life but quality of life now and for the rest of eternity.
5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Jesus himself said: The evidence of belief of a true follower is to produce much fruit, John 15:8,
The fruit of the Spirit is love, peace, joy, self-control, kindness, faith, goodness, and gentleness.
This involves ridding yourself of the sinful nature which includes sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; greed, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Gal 5:24
