The "Bálsýn" debut is stylistically similar to In the Woods... - HEart of Ages, but similarities can also be found with more progressive black metal acts such as Enslaved or Weakling; with the intricate and deeply atmospheric guitar work. The vocals are not typical for black metal, but are more like a hoarse viking chant. The band also uses keyboards and other instruments for atmosphere and power.
They split at an undetermined time, Pálmason wanted to concentrate on Solstafir, Einar moved to Norway for Curse, and is now the new vocalist for Den Saakaldte. the rest of the band moved onto Kontinuum.
The official site can be found at:
http://www.potentiam.helviti.com/
Born Again
Potentiam Lyrics
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They walked towards the sun
Peaceful eyes awaiting grace
Speaking words never heard
Gathered as one in a single thought
They touched the sky which left them blind
The illusion of life was realized
Once silent sun,now spoke to them
This is the law they never saw
A prayer of despair
(will)Leave them dead
Now their faces turned to stone
Disbelief of circumstance
Carefully you should walk the narrow path of mystery
Watch them take their final breath
Forgiving faces of repend
Attacked by a vicious world
Fragile souls,that day were born again
The lyrics of Potentiam's song, Born Again, depicts a journey through the wilderness towards the sun, where a group of people are seeking peace and grace. The words they speak have never been heard before, and they are united in a single thought. As they touch the sky, they become blind, and the illusion of life becomes evident. The once-silent sun now speaks to them and evokes the energy that they once worshipped. The law they never saw is now revealed, but it is a prayer of despair that will leave them dead. Their faces turn to stone, and they find it hard to believe the circumstance. As they carefully walk the narrow path of mystery, they take their final breath, where forgiving faces of repentance greet them. Despite being attacked by a vicious world, they become fragile souls that day and are born again.
This song's lyrics depict the journey of a group of people seeking a higher purpose and meaning in life. The wilderness and the sun represent the challenges and the journey they need to undertake to achieve their goal. As they touch the sky, they become blinded by their newfound insights and realization of the illusion of life. The prayer of despair reveals the harsh truth of life, which will leave them dead. However, they choose to forgive and repent, which leads them to be born again with fragile souls.
Line by Line Meaning
In the solitude of wilderness
Amidst a quiet and lonely natural environment
They walked towards the sun
They aim to reach their highest potential
Peaceful eyes awaiting grace
Expectant and calm expressions, yearning for blessings
Speaking words never heard
Uttering original and unheard of phrases
Gathered as one in a single thought
United as a group, sharing the same viewpoint
They touched the sky which left them blind
Reaching the pinnacle of success resulted in them losing sight of what's truly important
The illusion of life was realized
They became aware that the reality they believed was just an illusion
Once silent sun,now spoke to them
Unexpectedly the sun, that was previously quiet, had something to say to them
Evoke the energy once adored
Revive the force that was once admired
This is the law they never saw
A rule they never before acknowledged
A prayer of despair
A hopeless plea
(will)Leave them dead
The future holds annihilation for them
Now their faces turned to stone
Their expressions hardened, devoid of emotion
Disbelief of circumstance
Distrust in their present state of affairs
Carefully you should walk the narrow path of mystery
Be cautious while trying to unravel complex puzzles
Watch them take their final breath
Observe their dying moments
Forgiving faces of repend
Facial expressions showing penance and readiness to pardon
Attacked by a vicious world
Faced hostilities from an unforgiving environment
Fragile souls,that day were born again
After facing and surviving a life-changing ordeal, they emerged as more resilient and stronger individuals
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
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Kevin Belgrove
I was born again this year February 19th. God is sooo Good.
He changed me completely. And transformed my thinking.
Your points are very true.
February 19th
The whole week after Feb 19th
Felt like a month.
Many things happened the holy spirit was manifesting. In me.
I have experienced the fruits of the spirit like never before in my life . I had a crazy amount of love, peace joy, etc.
I prayed and the spirit cried out abba father.
My son Got healed.
I sang in tounges differnet languages ( sounded like spanish i think) not sure tho.
I only speak german and english.
And i had 2 visions.
I had one vision where i woke up and shouted im born again.
Even tho i was in church all my life.
I know now 100% that im BORN AGAIN. AND THAT THE LORD HAS CHANGED ME COMPLETELY.
Damian Williams
I see what you are saying I pray that this helps...
We are not literally born again until the resurrection, that is when we have our incorruptible bodies..
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
1 John 3:9-10
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:3
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality. And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming.”
1 Corinthians 15:52-54
This is part of the new covenant...
In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Hebrews 8:13
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh. “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34
FaithOnceDelivered
JW Questions how can you be so bible ignorant as to not understand that the Holy Spirit is the seed?
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his SEED remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
What did Paul say concerning the seed that you have denied?
1 Corinthians 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Islamic Allah is Satan.
You are 90% correct.
Many upon mankind do not understand what 'Born again' from JESUS CHRIST actually means.
Peace be unto you.
Only thru JESUS CHRIST can you walk the path towards the Kingdom of Heaven.
Amen
Verum
Baptism = Born again.
Not only baptism does involve water & spirit, but Jesus himself demonstrated how this works in John 1, not long before speaking to Nicodemus. He came to be baptized in the water, and the spirit descended upon him (which John saw as a dove). As if it wasn't clear enough, right after Jesus explained water & spirit, we have verse 22 saying, quote:
"After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized."
And for those who will claim water is a mere description of physical birth... Peter cleared it out for you, confirming the important role of baptism, comparing it to its old-testament prefiguration. Read attentively:
1 PETER 3: 20-21
(...) to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (...)
Baptism now saves you.
Because those who are baptized are thus united to Christ's own baptism & resurrection. No baptism, no salvation. This is exactly why Jesus said that unless you are born-again (baptized), you cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
It is a sacrament: God indeed make use of those, even if certain protestant pastors tried to claim the opposite in order to "distance" themselves from official Catholic doctrines. And for those who would still argue because of the fact that infants get baptized; understand also that the equivalent of baptism in the old covenant was circumcision, which was performed on infants -- even only after 8 days following their birth -- so that they would become God's children.
God bless.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
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@Kevin Belgrove
I was born again this year February 19th. God is sooo Good.
He changed me completely. And transformed my thinking.
Your points are very true.
February 19th
The whole week after Feb 19th
Felt like a month.
Many things happened the holy spirit was manifesting. In me.
I have experienced the fruits of the spirit like never before in my life . I had a crazy amount of love, peace joy, etc.
I prayed and the spirit cried out abba father.
My son Got healed.
I sang in tounges differnet languages ( sounded like spanish i think) not sure tho.
I only speak german and english.
And i had 2 visions.
I had one vision where i woke up and shouted im born again.
The vision that i had it was very interesting like i never had before it was like something opening my eyes and things just opened up like a flowing water inside of me and when i woke up i asked "God what was that?" and i got this very clear thought get your bible.
So i did
I opened it up and it brought me to
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:8 AMP
And in that moment i knew i was born again.
Even tho i was in church all my life.
I know now 100% that im BORN AGAIN. AND THAT THE LORD HAS CHANGED ME COMPLETELY.
Reborn Again
only for the disciples and is ok if you don't understand.
Matthew 13:10-13 King James Version
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
camerson1313
Oh man, I really wrote this 2 years ago? Wow, I was WAY off. It's almost sickening to re-read what I said above, because my beliefs have changed DRASTICALLY since then, and I now see all the nuances in the way I was wrong and deceived. Old me had no clue what he was talking about. Well then, time for some self-refuting:
1. Death is NOT the transferring of your spirit to another place; that is a completely false conclusion based on redefining what the term "death" means. Because death, by definition, is the loss of a life. If the transference of a spirit is what was really meant, then another term would be used, such as "relocation" or "migration." A life of pain and suffering would be exactly that: a LIFE of pain and suffering, not a "living death," as that nonsensical oxymoron is a logically impossible contradiction in terms.
2. Indeed, God is the source of all life. And he is the God of the living, not the God of the dead. That is why when one is fully separated from God, they are completely dead. They do not exist at all.
3. The phrase "in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" does not necessarily mean they died at the exact moment they consumed it. It just means that they are presently immortal, but if they do ever end up eating the fruit, THEN they would be demoted to a state of mortality, with an assurance of death sometime in their future. The moment Adam and Eve ate the fruit, the probability of them someday dying went from 0% to 100%. They did not "die" the moment they ate the fruit. The thing that DID happen was they "learned the difference between good and evil." Also, if the true meaning of "death" really was "separation from God," then how is it that immediately after eating the fruit, God came back and conversed with them detailing the new state of their existence? God appears to have still been very much with them for a state of existence called "separated from God." And he even remained to reprimand Cain for killing Abel, so he still wasn't completely gone even after exiling them from the garden.
4. "In order for something dead to be brought back to life, it must be reborn." This is what Lex's ENTIRE VIDEO is about proving, which he did very successfully if I would've just listened! My error was not comprehending the full extent of the physicality of the resurrection. It is ALL about being physically resurrected into a new physical body. Though the new one is called a "spiritual body," that just means it's a new type of physical body with extra spiritual features infused into it. It's NOTHING to do with "the spiritual state of one's soul." At least, not in terms of the meaning of "born again." Because being born again is something that is still yet to happen in the future. NOBODY has ever been truly "born again" except for Jesus, because he has already received his spiritual body. Born again is basically just a synonym for resurrection. Literally, "coming to life a 2nd time."
5. "Not being born again = being permanently dead for all eternity = an eternal life of suffering, hopelessness, and despair." Again, this is all WAY OFF. And not just off, but sickeningly corrupted, brainwashed, foolish, illogical, and Biblically illiterate. This is the saying of one who believes in eternal conscious torment and immortal soul theory, neither of which are supported by the Bible. As someone who now knows the TRUTH, that the Bible does, in fact, teach conditional immortality and soul sleep, I now not only understand everything about why you believe what you do, but also all the ways in which you are wrong, and the pieces which were missing in your understanding. Go listen to more UNLEARN, and UNLEARN all those lies you believe!
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@Kevin Belgrove
I was born again this year February 19th. God is sooo Good.
He changed me completely. And transformed my thinking.
February 19th
The whole week after Feb 19th
Felt like a month.
Many things happened the holy spirit was manifesting. In me.
I have experienced the fruits of the spirit like never before in my life . I had a crazy amount of love, peace joy, etc.
I prayed and the spirit cried out abba father.
My son Got healed.
I sang in tounges differnet languages ( sounded like spanish i think) not sure tho.
I only speak german and english.
And i had 2 visions.
I had one vision where i woke up and shouted im born again.
The vision that i had it was very interesting like i never had before it was like something opening my eyes and things just opened up like a flowing water inside of me and when i woke up i asked "God what was that?" and i got this very clear thought get your bible.
So i did
I opened it up and it brought me to
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:8 AMP
And in that moment i knew i was born again.
Even tho i was in church all my life.
I know now 100% that im BORN AGAIN. AND THAT THE LORD HAS CHANGED ME COMPLETELY.
The Garment of Esau - שׁאוּל
PSALM 71:20
You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, Shall revive me again, And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
PSALMS 30:3
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
PSALMS 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
JOB 33:24-26
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
‘Spare them from going down to the pit;
I have found a ransom for them—
25 let their flesh be renewed like a child’s;
let them be restored as in the days of their youth’—
26 then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,
they will see God’s face and shout for joy;
he will restore them to full well-being.
The Garment of Esau - שׁאוּל
Soul you die, then face THE JUDGMENT. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN, YHVH is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Mathew 27:50-52
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD HAS COME AND IS COMING.
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@Kevin Belgrove
I was born again this year February 19th. God is sooo Good.
He changed me completely. And transformed my thinking.
February 19th
The whole week after Feb 19th
Felt like a month.
Many things happened the holy spirit was manifesting. In me.
I have experienced the fruits of the spirit like never before in my life . I had a crazy amount of love, peace joy, etc.
I prayed and the spirit cried out abba father.
My son Got healed.
I sang in tounges differnet languages ( sounded like spanish i think) not sure tho.
I only speak german and english.
And i had 2 visions.
I had one vision where i woke up and shouted im born again.
The vision that i had it was very interesting like i never had before it was like something opening my eyes and things just opened up like a flowing water inside of me and when i woke up i asked "God what was that?" and i got this very clear thought get your bible.
So i did
I opened it up and it brought me to
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:8 AMP
And in that moment i knew i was born again.
Even tho i was in church all my life.
I know now 100% that im BORN AGAIN. AND THAT THE LORD HAS CHANGED ME COMPLETELY.
Mere Bear
Here is how I understand it. Justification and Sanctification are two separate things. You are justified by grace through faith in Jesus alone. Salvation is a sovereign act of God. God will send his spirit to indwell us. When that happens, we are then born again. Sanctification happens AFTER this. Regeneration of the mind and heart to be able to walk in faith. God bless.
God Warrior
Amen 🙏 we are blessed
God Warrior
I was born again. My soul left the dark and I went to the kingdom of light I felt the love and Christ and everything was explained to me at the revaluation He wanted for me to see. My old self died my ego died and he made me new of Spirit. Now I’m in the kingdom of light every day on earth as it is in heaven.
God Warrior
@power of God Romans 7:16 no longer sins
Once born again you are a new self as in spirit and He dwells within. As I am now no longer my old self I am created new in His image. Amen 🙏
power of God
@God Warrior Kingdom of light?You are aware that this religion has got everything confused right?
power of God
@God Warrior So you compare to Jesus since you don't sin?Seems to me this religion is not correct in some terms.We all sin we are all unworthy till judged.
power of God
@God Warrior He forgives and removes but you sin again so you must confess.See how you try to find a loop hole around everything?You are a sinner by lying right now you said you don't sin which you do.
God Warrior
@power of God no God removed all sin and I’m born again in the kingdom of light. By His grace! 🙏
Benjamin Thomas
This was Very informative, and inspiring. God bless
Vahid M
Hey! Thank you brother Lex! This was a really interesting video and I love seeing different sides and angles of something of such a tall topic! Shared! 🧡
Shalom and blessings to your beautiful wife and wonderful children! (And your new Blue baby too!)