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41 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207726 | ||
Doc I read a lot through the hats issue, but if you have it could you please provide a branch number for this issue of hats as "Yes, it is easier to discuss the practice of gender dependent hat wearing than it is to deal with the whole question of submission in chapter 11". I read a lot about hats before posting beja with an intention to reply to him for the first time on his issue here. I could not seem to find a discussion centering on what you mention here. Could you help me out?:-) John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give another Helper, that He may be with you forever. blessings abound, bowler |
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42 | pray to the Holy Spirit | John 16:23 | bowler | 207725 | ||
sureshtv In many places we see in the New Testament this model; To pray to the Father God in the name of Jesus. I have yet to see a model for prayer in the New Testament that has Jesus or anyone else praying to the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. We do have that you can pray directly to Jesus in Jesus name in John 14:14. Now, in all fairness this is the sorvereign Godhead we are talking about. God is God, and God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth, the right way that is. So even though the Holy Spirit is in the sovereign Godhead, if we don't see a model in the New Testament of anyone praying directly to Him, is it right to do? HHHMMM. I myself would err on the side of caution and stick to what Jesus said to do and the models for prayer we find all over the New Testament. I would therefore say no, it is not Biblical to pray to the Holy Spirt, soley based on the record of the New Testament. John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. blessings abound, bowler |
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43 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207721 | ||
Beja, I have read about half this branch and will take the time to reply to you tommorrow sometime first after church. I will address you regarding the criteria in your original question and how you broke that down again and again later through the thread. I promise to read the whole thread first. I plan to give you two scenarios, perhaps, most likely in different posts; one of how it means to some that you can lose your salvation, and a second one giving you a new alternative the the IF/THEN "problem". I promise to take the time to be careful to address your concerns as best I can, as I can see everyone most diligently did also do. I would like to add my two cents. Hebrews 5:11 Concering him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. blessings abound, bowler |
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44 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207524 | ||
Flintyjoe Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Acts 2:23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. Jesus was definitely a "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" - as in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, "foreknew" from the foundation of the world that He would be slain. That is the concept that Mathew Henry is talking about, it is not a twisting or mis-representation of Revelation 13:8, it is correct because there is not one thing that can happen that is not foreknown by God "from the foundation of the world" as definitely going to happen. As someone pointed out to you before, you have no way of knowing if Adam made it to heaven or not because the Bible does not say that he did or did not make it, like say in the case of Enoch, or Elijah, or Abraham. We cannot assume things the Bible does not say, and just because it does not say Adam made into heaven, that does not mean he didn't. The only one who knows, even of the so called saints, who makes it into heaven is God Himself. The logic of your first statement is a little wanting. The first time you spank a child does he know just because you tell him you will do it if he is bad what a spanking means? I have to wonder how Adam could know what death meant since there was none to observe as a way to understand what that was? I am not saying he did not know, but the Bible does not tell us how he knew what it meant. What bothers me about trying to figure that part out is that wouldn't knowing what death is be part of "the knowledge of good and evil", as death is part of evil? I realize my reasoning here creates a big problem because God is indeed just and he told Adam he would die to warn him not to get in the position to have to die. But, the Bible does not give us a clue how Adam could know what that mean in any capacity as he could not know the difference between good and evil - as that the knowledge of good and evil would be necessary to understand what it means? Just a thought there to complicate the whole she-bang for you.:-) Genesis 2:16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die." blessings abound, bowler |
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45 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207521 | ||
Doc By uiversalism do you mean the concept that "everyone, absolutely everyone" will be saved whether they repented to Jesus or not and took Him as savior? I am trying to see how Flintyjoe could be into "unversalism" after posting sometime up above that "those who never repent and get bad hearts don't go to heaven"? I have heard of universalism, I think before, but am not quite sure what you mean exactly by the term. 1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become wise in this age, he must become foolish. blessings abound, bowler |
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46 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207520 | ||
Doc I actually have reviewed what I said and agree with your statement here that to say what God had foreknowledge of and allowed to happen "was not in God's plan" is problematic. I also strongly agree that there was never a plan "B". But somewhere here there needs to be a disticntion between what God allows to happen, as in God allows evil and death, but is not the author of them (is God the author of death?) - and that God foreknows "what" will happen. I agree God is sovereign, not one thing happens to a sparrow without His consent - which point I did make, that nothing happens without His allowing it to happen. I think this blunders into the area of God fore-ordaining things to happen, if I am correct, which is a "problematic" area altogether anyway. If you would care to comment on that aspect some illumination might be had here? 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness. - in regards to worldly knowledge in the face of the mind and purpose of God. blessings abound, bowler |
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47 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207519 | ||
Doc I never meant to imply that those rules should be applied to this forum. Also a lot of those debates between individuals were quite public. As well, I never meant to imply that the rules of the forum should be changed (you did not say that). The one thing that those "debates" had in common with our present responsibilities is that we should indeed defend what we believe as they most certainly did, without worrying that our beliefs will offend someone, which they most certainly never worried about. That is the main reason I posted what I did, because I agree with you about your point here regarding being dogs who bark when our master is attacked. 1 Corinthians 1:22, 23 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ cricified, to Jews a stumbling block, adn to Gentiles foolishness. blessings abound, bowler |
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48 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207512 | ||
Immanuelsown I do believe the concept of God having foreknowledge of all things happening may qualify as Him "allowing all things to happen", which thing is different than what He wills to happen. God foreknew that we would sin and death would come, but He did not authorize Satan to go an introduce the concept of sin to Adam and Eve - that would be evil on the part of God. God does not will evil to happen. As death will be thrown into the Lake of Fire, we can assume death is evil. Therefore death could not possibly be part of God's "plan". God allows plenty of things to happen that are not "His plan and purpose for mankind". Jesus says this "Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, etc.". Jesus foreknew as God what would happen, not just because Daniel said it, but because He as God was saying it. Jesus knew that this event would happen, the event must happen, is allowed to happen, but it is an evil thing. It is not Jesus' will for it to happen, it is Satan's will for it to happen. Satan cannot decide if what he wills can happen, he can only attempt things. God can and does decide what to allow to happen, but evil happening is not "the will of God", it is the allowance of God that whoever should rebel against Him should be free to do so and pay the consequences. Death is a consequence of Adam and Eve's choice to sin, God allowed them to sin, but not as His will, only as His allowing something to be able to happen. Revelation 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. blessings abound, bowler |
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49 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207511 | ||
Doc There was once the concept of "the gentlemen's debate" for many centuries in which divers individuals would sit and discuss at length matters of the day and matters of depth. And in these debates there were certain rules of conduct and deportment fitting of gentlemen; The debates were polite, all veiws were to be discussed without reservation. Support for a position was to be provided using reason and logic as a means of dissembling information. The word argument referred strictly to the art of building and presenting a case of evidence for a position and had nothing whatsoever to do with being "argumentative with a disposition towards the use of words to inflict injury or insult". Men presented their arguments point by point or in sections and their opponents either agreed or refuted these arguments point by point. It was assumed that freedom of thought was to be expressed, but, no one was called upon or expected to agree, or to give creednce to, or to tolerate, the thoughts of those they disagreed with. This would have abrogated a man's right to believe as he pleased and to fully express his belief. The thoughts of others were never censured but were roundly debated. The debates often became heated over important matters but no one took it personaly per se but rather respected the right of others to express their thoughts with a certain fervor. Gentlemen would part to continue debates or arguments another day, ammicably and often resolved issues by agreeing to disagree. Hands were shook in the spirit of commararderie amongst gentlemen regarding the art of debate. Debate was not viewed as a dirty word, and was considered to be an accademic pursuit. The spirit of debate was an effort to arrive at a conclusion to a question posed, or a theory, or an hypothesis posited, in a reasonable and acceptable fashion as described here. This practice was applied to all things academic, and religion and philosophy were considered to be matters of highest accademia. The entire concept of the gentlemen's debate has been lost in a quest for "tolerance of the belief's of others" in modern society, which grew out of the secular movement, the liberation theology movement, feminism, "gay pride", and other movements both political and philosphic in nature. This is a deplorable situation in society today. And as D.A. Carson says, "Exclusiveness is the one religious idea that cannot be tolerated. Correspondingly, proselytism is a dirty word.". Well I seem to have gotton off on a bit of a tangent here, but I was very interested in everything you had to say. I think all Christians should stand by what they believe, whatever it is, and be ready to defend it. That should not be viewed as "debating" in the sense that modern society now views that word. The way that is viewed today is completely skewed and is slanted towards the use of insult and injury to persons. But if anyone were to look the meaning of the word up, that is before they change the dictionaries again, they might find that one meaning is a lengthy exchange of opinion on a subject. We, however are Christians and our wisdom is Christ Jesus. I like what Paul says about part of the realm of ideas - 2 Corinthians 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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50 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | bowler | 207510 | ||
Doc I read a lot of what you had to say to one Pastor Glenn I may freely assume that you view the use of the words "spirit" and "soul" in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and Hebrews 4:12 to be interchangeable. I am trying hard to see this. I see from your posts on this that you view the concpet of Trichotism to be an invention of the Greek philosophers. I am wondering since two NT writers bothered to separate the words soul, spirit with the use of the word "and", and seeing as how they chose to use two different Greek words there is no such thing as a trichotimist view as being "Biblical", rather than as "Greek". How are we to say that the writers of the NT meant to use them interchangeably while in the same sentence used as two different aspects of the human spiritual essence? I saw your explanation that the "division of the soul and the spirit" means both were divided, as in searched out (bad paraphrase), rather than divided from one another. However, the writers of the NT did not say that both were divided in themselves but from one another, as if there were two things being put assunder from one another. Granted this is only found in two NT sources and that the case for dichotism if far stronger throughout the OT. Perhaps you could point me to some other posts than the long one I read all of with Pastor Glenn in it, if you don't feel like getting into this again. I happen to agree with your assessment, not as if you needed me to, but I do, that tolerance of people should be separated from tolerance of ideas. 1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the Scribe? Where is the debator of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? blessings abound, bowler |
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51 | What is the relationship for the poor in | Matt 5:11 | bowler | 207508 | ||
Dcmartin Please take the time to say what you do not understand about the answers you have already been given. This way someone could try to help you understand whatever it is you still do not understand. Just posting the same question again without saying why you don't understand the answers you have been given may not get you any new kind of answers. See if you can come up with a question to the answer that I am going to give you again, and when you post it choose "note". "The poor in spirit who are saved go to the kingdom of heaven, that is it, that is the relationship." I would add again, now trying to be simpler - The poor in spirit suffer because they are followers of Jesus, but is because they are saved that they are going to heaven - that is the nature and reason they "poor in spirit go to heaven" because they are saved. Just because people are poor in spirit does not mean they automatically go to heaven - they have to be saved. blessings abound |
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52 | once saved always saved? | John 10:28 | bowler | 207503 | ||
Progolfer190 I am trying to follow your logic and here and I am not suceeding. You said the following - "I don't think so because you can die without repenting of your sins ad getting a bad heart and (i believe) go to hell but if you repent of your sins at the end of your life and you die with a good heart then you will go to heaven." In response to - "once saved always saved?" I am trying to break down what you are saying into parts here - "because you can die without repenting of your sins" This begs the question; How in the world could you get to heaven unless you did repent of your sins and take Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord? Is there some other way to get to heaven than to do that? Is it that you believe that you get saved sometime early in life, or at all, and then because you don't repent of your sins after that "event" when you got saved, that you will "get a bad heart" and go to hell? How does that work really? Is it really possible that a Christian who is truly saved would not repent of their sins on an ongoing basis, is that a Christian? The whole premise of salvation is that the human heart is infinitely wicked and we cannot get to heaven becuase "we have a good heart" becuase we don't have one. Once saved always saved means that once you repent of your sins to Jesus alone, nobody else, not His mother, not to God the Father, not to the Holy Spirit, not to the dead saints, or live angels, but just to Jesus - once you do that for real with a sincere heart, your salvation is complete. There is no waiting around until we see how good you lived when you finally die, or waiting for a man to tell you you are saved after you pray a certain way and go to him to repent of your sins. Salvation is a work of Christ, not of you - you don't have the power to effect salvation by your good works or your bad works, it is not possible, that is why Christ had to do it. The way to salvation is simple; believe Jesus is God, repent of your sins, confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart that He died and rose from the dead and you will be saved. There is no such thing as getting saved and then going to your death and not making it to heaven, it doesn't work that way. Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. blessings abound, bowler |
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53 | Why were they called wise/foolish virgin | Matthew | bowler | 207502 | ||
son of god I am well aware that a virgin in the Bible is the designation of all unmarried women! I was not making "the designation that virgin has anything to do with sex". I was making the point that a virgin by virtue of the definition of the word virign is not one who has sex, or else they would cease to be one... My mind was not in the gutter; I tried to use sound reasoning to demonstrate that the foolish virgins were foolish because they did not get ready for Jesus to come, and I demonstrated before hand that their virginity was never the issue becuase that is not a possiblity, a virgin is a virgin. I don't know if you can see the difference now, between what you are saying in your post here, and what I was trying to convey in my previous post? That it is impossible for the foolish virgins to be foolish for the reasons the original questioner answered their own post with? Mathew 25:32 All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. blessings abound, bowler |
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54 | poor in spirit | Matt 5:12 | bowler | 207501 | ||
Dcmartin This is a Quote; http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/sg2198.htm John MacArthur Matthew 5:3 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." I. WHY MUST A CHRISTIAN BE POOR IN SPIRIT? A. Humility Leads to a Right Knowledge of Self In the Beatitudes Christ spoke of a new standard of living. Being poor in spirit is a fundamental characteristic of a Christian. No one will enter Christ's kingdom on the basis of pride--the doorway into the kingdom is very low and must be crawled through. The sooner we realize we are incapable of attaining the standard Christ calls us to (Matt. 5:48), the closer we are to finding the One who can help us attain that standard. That calls for humility. Jesus was saying, "You can't be filled until you are empty. You can't be worthwhile until you realize you are worthless apart from Christ." In the church today there is little emphasis on self- emptying. I've seen many books on how to be filled with joy and other things, but I don't think I've ever seen a book on how to empty yourself of self. Too much of contemporary Christianity feeds on pride. But a person without poverty of spirit fails to understand the grace of God and cannot be a Christian since salvation is by grace through faith. Also, the graces of the Christian life can't grow without humility. A person that is living for Christ according the this passage down in verse 11 is marked as being persecuted for being a Christian. If you give up everything in this life that does not line up with God's holy world, that would be a whole lot of things and people too. When you do that you may end up "poor in spirit", sad, discouraged, humble, suffering because you chose to follow Jesus instead of being in love with the things of the world. Not everyone would agree with this concept, however, we are to imitate Christ. Christ was a man of many sorrows, He suffered for God and for us, He did not love the ease of life in this world, He was homeless, He cried out to God. If we are going to imitate Christ, we must "pick up our cross and follow Him". Christians are called to suffer and before we will be able to rejoice at that suffering there will first be tears and hurt and true loss. That is what a person can do to that "she can have that poor in spirit". The relationship of those who are saved, that is key, those who are saved, who are poor in spirit, who suffer, with the kingdom of heaven is that they will go there. The poor in spirit who are saved go to the kingdom of heaven, that is it, that is the relationship. Hope this helps. Mathew 5:11 Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you becuase of Me. blessings abound, bowler |
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55 | Good and Bad Fruit Out of Context? | Matt 12:33 | bowler | 207494 | ||
Val Thanks very much. bowler |
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56 | Why were they called wise/foolish virgin | Matthew | bowler | 207477 | ||
JKERR There has been a lot of things said about these virgins, the wise and the foolish, but I have never heard that because they did not have sex that both groups were the wise and the foolish virgins. If it was that none of them had sex seeing as how they were all virgins, then what would make 5 of them unwise? Having sex? I don't think that would make sense, a virgin is a virgin. The wise virgins were wise because they got ready for Jesus to come get them as the bride of Christ, as the church, so they could go to the wedding banquet, in heaven. The foolish virgins were foolish becuase they knew about Jesus but did not get ready for Him to come and get them to take them to the wedding feast, to heaven. The wise ones took Jesus as savior, faith in promises of salvation as the lamps full of oil. The foolish ones new the promises of salvation but did not go get faith, empty lamps without oil. Mathew 24:13 Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour. blessings abound, bowler |
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57 | Good and Bad Fruit Out of Context? | Matt 12:33 | bowler | 207476 | ||
Val Sorry for taking so long to get back to you about your answers to my questions about the example you provided about how to do an inductive Bible Study. I do not want to refute anything you said, more rather, I wanted to try out the method as you outline to me for a while. I am interested in methods of how to study the Bible. My concern about that is how we get to an application. In order to glorify God in everything I do, or learn to, I need to understand what God has said before I think I know what it means or how to apply it. Thanks for your help in understanding things and for taking the time to do the work of making an example for me. Luke 7:16 Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. blessings abound, bowler |
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58 | Just want to share my heart.... | Eph 1:6 | bowler | 207470 | ||
LJ77 That was very beautiful, worth meditating on. Thank you very much for sharing your heart. blessings abound, bowler |
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59 | What does Mathew 5:3 and Luke 6:20 means | Luke 6:20 | bowler | 207467 | ||
Dcmartin I was looking backthrough your other questions on these passages to try to see what exactly you were asking. I see now that you were asking three different questions. I apologize for labeling one of then as a duplicate, as it was not. So now you want to know what each of the two verses in question mean standing alone, rather than what poor in spirit means, or why Luke leaves out the word spirit. I believe based on the surrounding verses in Mathew that Mathew is saying in your first verse that; those whose spirit's are sorrowfull, are sad, who are downcast in spirit, who are suffering spiritualy - these have been promised the kingdom of heaven, salvation is theirs, the will go to heaven. But all this is based on verse 11, that these poor in spirit are with Jesus, believe in Jesus, are persecuted for Jesus. I believe that based on the surrounding verses in Luke that; it means those who are poor in this world, those who have not, those who do without, those who live in poverty - these all have the kingdom of God, have salvation, will go to heaven. But this promise is granted to them because of verse 27, those who hear, who have the word of God in them, those who are saved, and based on verse 28 these same are persectuted for believing in Jesus. The way Mathew describes the suffering believer is saying that the believer has a spiritual state and that because of that will be blessed. The way Luke describes the suffering believer is saying that the believer has a state of poverty in this world and that the believer will recieve a different state of being - one in heaven. The broad idea of Mathew is that the Kingdom of the Son of God has come. The smaller idea in just that portioin of that chapter of Mathew is that the righteousness of the believer will be rewarded in the face of persecution. The broad ideas of Luke are that Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus has compassion on all the outcast groups; the ill, the women, the poor, the Samaritans, the sinners, the tax collectors and so on, and that Jesus is the savior. The smaller idea of that portion of Luke you are intereseted in is Jesus has compassion on the outcasts and the righteousness of those who believe. Luke 6:31 Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. blessings abound, bowler |
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60 | Why Luke 6:20 they ommited the word sipr | Luke 6:20 | bowler | 207447 | ||
Dcmartin Mathew makes a point of speaking of the spiritual state of those who suffer for the sake of Christ down in verses 11 and 12 as to why he recounted verses 1 through 10. 1 through 10 are all spiritual states of the oppressed who will suffer for His sake. Mathew makes a point of talking about who will suffer for the sake of Christ; the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the gentle, those who hunger for righteousness sake, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the persecuted - he is making statements about spiritual people doing spiritual things. Luke makes different points. Luke contrasts the physically oppressed to those who are rich and happy; the poor, the hungry, the ostracized, the insulted, the scorned - in other words the outcasts, the oppressed by society. The contrast he makes are largely down in verses 27 through 38 of those who "hear" the word of God and recieve it and those who do not who swindle the poor and abuse them. The reward in Mathew is in heaven and is great. the reward in Luke is great and is to be sons of the most high. They are both talking about the same event from different points of view. It is like when two people go to the same birthday party and go tell different groups of friends two stories about the same event. One person talks about what stood out to him as important, and the other person talks about what stood out to him as important. The stories have some of the same exact elements in them, and some different ones too, but they do not contradict one another, or ommit anything, it is just different aspects of the same story. Hope this helps. Luke 6:27 But I say to you who hear, love our enemies, do good to those who hate you. blessings abound, bowler |
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