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1-1-1 Worldview
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Two Ingredients of a Worldview

• basic assumptions
• the promise of salvation and future paradise

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1-1-1 Worldview Def.
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Even some cows have a worldview!
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1-1-2 Four Models of Western Religious Thought
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1-1-3 Dostoyevsky quote
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6 blind men an elephant
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Elephant Metaphor of Reality
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1-1-4
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1-1-5 Why religious?
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1-3-1 How to View Life
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Biblical view of life verses

• Colossians 19 For this reason also, since the
  day we heard this, we haven't stopped praying for
  you. We are asking that you may be filled with
  the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
  spiritual understanding, 10 so that you may walk
  worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him,
  bearing fruit in every good work and growing in
  the knowledge of God. 11 May you be strengthened
  with all power, according to His glorious might,
  for all endurance and patience, with joy 12
  giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you
  to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.
  
• 13 He has rescued us from the domain of darkness
  and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He
  loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the
  forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the
  invisible God, the firstborn over all creation
  16 because by Him everything was created, in
  heaven and on earth, the visible and the
  invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers
  or authorities-- all things have been created
  through Him and for Him.
• 17 He is before all things, and by Him all things
  hold together.
• 18 He is also the head of the body, the church
  He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
  so that He might come to have first place in
  everything.

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Biblical view of life verses
Colossians 3 17 And whatever you do, in word or
in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through
Him.
Psalm 10319 The Lord has established His throne
in heaven,and His kingdom rules over all.
2 Corinthians 10 4 since the weapons of our
warfare are not fleshly, but are powerful through
God for the demolition of strongholds. We
demolish arguments 5 and every high-minded thing
that is raised up against the knowledge of God,
taking every thought captive to the obedience of
Christ.
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1-3-1a Our Thinking in Every Area
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1-3-1b Kuyper quote
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Platos View of the World
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Platonism Incorporated into the Church
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Biblical View of Life
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1-3-2 Personalities and Writings
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1-4-1 Rian quote
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1-4-2 saw
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Eves Presuppositions
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1-5-1 C W
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Ziggy
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1-5-2 Philosophy
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Why Wont They Listen?
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Blocks - Creation/Evol. W/laws
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Blocks Gospel/Genesis
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Blocks Good News/Bad News
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Blocks The Gospel
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Blocks The Gospel
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Blocks The Gospel
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1 Corinthians 123
1 Corinthians 123
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness
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Acts 222-24 NIV
Acts 222-24
22 "Men of Israel, listen to this Jesus of
Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by
miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among
you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This
man was handed over to you by Gods set purpose
and foreknowledge and you, with the help of
wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to
the cross. 24 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.
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Acts 237-38,40 NIV
Acts 237-38,40
37 When the people heard this, they were cut to
the heart and said to Peter and the other
apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" 38 Peter
replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of
you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit. 40 With many other
words he warned them and he pleaded with them,
"Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."
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Scripture Background - new
Acts 241
So then, those who had received his word were
baptized and there were added that day about
three thousand souls.
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Blocks The Gospel
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Blocks The Gospel
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Blocks Stumbling Block/Creation Based
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Blocks Stumbling Block/Creation Based
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Blocks Stumbling Block/Creation Based
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01 Jews fall over Gospel
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Cross
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Acts 2 Peter Jews
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God in Japan
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Japan
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Acts 1718 NIV
Acts 1718
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began
to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is
this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He
seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said
this because Paul was preaching the good news
about Jesus and the resurrection.
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Acts 1718 NIV
Acts 1718
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began
to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is
this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He
seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said
this because Paul was preaching the good news
about Jesus and the resurrection.
FOOLISHNESS
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Blocks Foolishness
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Blocks Foolishness
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Blocks Foolishness
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Blocks Creation/Evol. Based
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Blocks Creation/Evol. Based
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Blocks Creation/Evol. Based
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02 Greeks jump road
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Acts 1723 NIV
Acts 1723
For as I walked around and looked carefully at
your objects of worship, I even found an altar
with this inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now
what you worship as something unknown I am going
to proclaim to you.
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Acts 1724,25
Acts 1724,25
24 God that made the world and all things
therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and
earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands 25 Neither is worshipped with mens
hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he
giveth to all life, and breath, and all things
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Acts 1726
Acts 1726
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the
bounds of their habitation
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03 reach Greeks old clothes
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Acts 1730-31 NIV
Acts 1730-31
30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance,
but now he commands all people everywhere to
repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will
judge the world with justice by the man he has
appointed. He has given proof of this to all men
by raising him from the dead."
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Acts 1732, 34 NIV
Acts 17 32, 34
32 When they heard about the resurrection of the
dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We
want to hear you again on this subject. 34 A
few men became followers of Paul and believed.
Among them was Dionysius, a member of the
Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a
number of others.
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Blocks Greek culture - animated
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Blocks Greek culture
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Blocks Creation/God Different way of thinking
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Acts 17 Paul Greeks Remove
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Acts 17 Paul Greeks no base
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Q 939 independent.co.uk
Church 'will be dead in 40 years time'
Holy Week has begun with an expert prediction
that the Christian church in this country will be
dead and buried within 40 years. It will vanish
from the mainstream of British life, with only
0.5 per cent of the population attending the
Sunday services of any denomination, according to
the country's leading church analyst.
Church 'will be dead in 40 years time,
Independent.co.uk, 16 April 2003
Q 939
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Q 940 independent.co.uk
Church 'will be dead in 40 years time'
Dr Brierley's findings come just five months
after the publication of his latest English
Church Attendance Survey, an independent study of
all denominations. It showed that only 7.5 per
cent of the population went to church on Sundays.
and that, in the past 10 years - billed by the
churches as the "Decade of Evangelism" - church
attendance dropped by an "alarming" 22 per cent.
Church 'will be dead in 40 years time,
Independent.co.uk, 16 April 2003
Q 940
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Westminster
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Westminster 2
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Darwins Grave
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Psalm 113 NAS
Psalm 113
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the
righteous do?"
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Church Witness to World
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Church Witness to World
'I understand'
'JEWS'
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Church Witness to World
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Church Witness to World
Foolishness
GREEKS
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04 Greeks educating Greeks
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05 Greeks today
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06 reach Greeks modern clothes
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Castle Problem w/Greek/Jews
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Castle Solution w/Greek/Jews
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Know your soil
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Jews Ploughed ground
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Church Today - Greeks
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Bulldozer Creation Evangelism
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Bulldozer Creation Evangelism
Answers To Where Did God Come From? Cain's
wife? Dinosaurs? Ape-Men? Fossils? Age of
Earth? Noah's Ark?
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07 Greeks educating Jews
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10 Reach todays Greeks
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Bible Stories or Bible Foundation
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7 Cs of History
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True or False?

• The Scriptures indicate that parts of life are
  sacred while others are secular.
• Ones worldview will shape his or her religion
  but probably wont influence his behavior in the
  workplace.
• Since Marxists are atheists, their worldview is
  not religious.
• All worldviews promise some kind of utopia in the
  future.
• The Christian views God as personal and involved
  while the New Age thinker views God as an
  impersonal force.
• The Scripture emphasizes that Christ is over
  Christians but is powerless over the secular
  world.
• Cosmic humanism is a form of pantheism.
• It is impossible to educate someone from a
  totally neutral position.
• Not teaching about God implies that He is
  non-existent, irrelevant or unimportant.
• Eves decision to eat the fruit in the garden was
  an expression of her attitude of independence
  toward God.

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Humanist Manifesto IThe Manifesto is a product
of many minds. It was designed to represent a
developing point of view, not a new creed. The
individuals whose signatures appear would, had
they been writing individual statements, have
stated the propositions in differing terms. The
importance of the document is that more than
thirty men have come to general agreement on
matters of final concern and that these men are
undoubtedly representative of a large number who
are forging a new philosophy out of the materials
of the modern world. Raymond B. Bragg (1933)
The time has come for widespread recognition of
the radical changes in religious beliefs
throughout the modern world. The time is past for
mere revision of traditional attitudes. Science
and economic change have disrupted the old
beliefs. Religions the world over are under the
necessity of coming to terms with new conditions
created by a vastly increased knowledge and
experience. In every field of human activity, the
vital movement is now in the direction of a
candid and explicit humanism. In order that
religious humanism may be better understood we,
the undersigned, desire to make certain
affirmations which we believe the facts of our
contemporary life demonstrate. There is great
danger of a final, and we believe fatal,
identification of the word religion with
doctrines and methods which have lost their
significance and which are powerless to solve the
problem of human living in the Twentieth Century.
Religions have always been means for realizing
the highest values of life. Their end has been
accomplished through the interpretation of the
total environing situation (theology or world
view), the sense of values resulting therefrom
(goal or ideal), and the technique (cult),
established for realizing the satisfactory life.
A change in any of these factors results in
alteration of the outward forms of religion. This
fact explains the changefulness of religions
through the centuries. But through all changes
religion itself remains constant in its quest for
abiding values, an inseparable feature of human
life. Today man's larger understanding of the
universe, his scientific achievements, and deeper
appreciation of brotherhood, have created a
situation which requires a new statement of the
means and purposes of religion. Such a vital,
fearless, and frank religion capable of
furnishing adequate social goals and personal
satisfactions may appear to many people as a
complete break with the past. While this age does
owe a vast debt to the traditional religions, it
is none the less obvious that any religion that
can hope to be a synthesizing and dynamic force
for today must be shaped for the needs of this
age. To establish such a religion is a major
necessity of the present. It is a responsibility
which rests upon this generation.
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Humanist Manifesto IIPrefaceIt is forty
years since Humanist Manifesto I (1933) appeared.
Events since then make that earlier statement
seem far too optimistic. Nazism has shown the
depths of brutality of which humanity is capable.
Other totalitarian regimes have suppressed human
rights without ending poverty. Science has
sometimes brought evil as well as good. Recent
decades have shown that inhuman wars can be made
in the name of peace. The beginnings of police
states, even in democratic societies, widespread
government espionage, and other abuses of power
by military, political, and industrial elites,
and the continuance of unyielding racism, all
present a different and difficult social outlook.
In various societies, the demands of women and
minority groups for equal rights effectively
challenge our generation.As we approach the
twenty-first century, however, an affirmative and
hopeful vision is needed. Faith, commensurate
with advancing knowledge, is also necessary. In
the choice between despair and hope, humanists
respond in this Humanist Manifesto II with a
positive declaration for times of uncertainty.As
in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional
theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing
God, assumed to live and care for persons, to
hear and understand their prayers, and to be able
to do something about them, is an unproved and
outmoded faith. Salvationism, based on mere
affirmation, still appears as harmful, diverting
people with false hopes of heaven hereafter.
Reasonable minds look to other means for
survival.Those who sign Humanist Manifesto II
disclaim that they are setting forth a binding
credo their individual views would be stated in
widely varying ways. This statement is, however,
reaching for vision in a time that needs
direction. It is social analysis in an effort at
consensus. New statements should be developed to
supersede this, but for today it is our
conviction that humanism offers an alternative
that can serve present-day needs and guide
humankind toward the future. Paul Kurtz and
Edwin H. Wilson (1973)
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2-1-1
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3-1-1 Gods Revelation Trough Nature
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2-2-1 Who are these people?
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BASIC CONCEPT OF CAPITALISM
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Marxs theory of history
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Marxs theory of capitalism
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Marxs theory of communism
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2-3-1 Lenin quote
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Lenins contribution to Marxism
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Two Atheistic Worldviews
HUMANISM MARXISM
Main Problem with Society
Dependence on Religious Fairy Tales Lack of
Dependence on Human Potential
Oppression of Lower Classes by Ruling Classes
Condescension Obstructions to progress which
should be set aside as we have outgrown them
Attitude toward Religious Institutions
Hostility Basis of oppressive institutions
should be overthrown
Social Agenda
Gradual Shift to Humanist Principles
Violent Revolution
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2-3-3
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2-4-1 Comparing Worldviews
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2-5-1
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C.S. Lewis Argument for Gods existence
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3-5-1
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War of the Worlds
Know the Creator
chance
Purposeful life in bringing glory to God
Only value is in what is left behind
unreasonable faith - Charles Darwin
Exists by chance
reasonable faith Louis Pasteur
Created ex nihilo
Owns a biological machine and is a living soul
Is a biological machine
Matter is all that matters
Values both material spiritual
Courage Stonewall Jackson
Linear - purposeful
Linear -meaningless
fear
Totally Depraved from Original Sin
Good can become perfect
humility
pride
autonomous (lawless) Hitler, selfishness
Paris Hilton
obedience Bonhoffer, love Amy Carmichael
Absolutes revealed by God
relative
Instituted by God as man, woman, kids
Defined by society
loyalty Suzanna Wesley
fickleness Margaret Sanger
Purpose to change society
justice William Wilberforce
ruthlessness V. I. Lenin
Purpose of govt is primarily protection
Regeneration through Jesus Christ
man
Faith
disappointment
Gateway to either life with the Creator forever
or sepa- ration from the Creator forever
The end
Eternal perspective
Live for Today empty
 

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