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Hebrew For "The House of Truth"
In the previous article I provoked your thoughts by sharing with you that the New Testament consists of two competing and conflicting Gospels:
In the previous study we saw that one of these two different Gospels represented the faith of this "Jewish Jesus" which stresses "deeds" and "good works" as manifestations of one's obedience to the Laws and Commandments of God in one's respective Covenant with God for salvation and inheritance of Eternal Life. The other conflicting gospel and plan of salvation we deal with now stresses adherence to an accepted orthodox "belief", "creed" or "religious theology" in order to inherit Eternal Life which is ascribed by the writers of this New Testament as being the Gospel of Paul. We will see in this article and the one to follow that this second "Gospel" ascribed to Paul is 180 degrees opposite from the one taught by this "Jewish Jesus" represented as "the Christ" in the New Testament. Let me show you as we continue this study. But first of all some questions to prepare us for this study.
Answer for yourself: Can we have two conflicting, antagonistic, clashing, contrary, and contradicting Gospels and both be correct? Needless to say one is wrong and one is right! Hopefully after you finish these studies you will be able to determine which is which and truth from fiction and which of these two contrary Gospels is truly the "Word of God" that God wanted all mankind to have and which is not.
Answer for yourself: Now this might sound crazy on the surface but "How many different Pauls are there in the New Testament"? Are you aware that modern scholarship today both teaches us and shows us quite expertly that not all the epistles bearing Paul's name or ascribed to him in the New Testament are actually his writings and accurately reflected the true religious beliefs of the authentic Paul?
At the outset of this study, let us realize, that what we have today in the "New Testament" and which is attributed to the apostle Paul, may well never have been written by him! Sections no doubt have been inserted and tampered with and subsequently removed. Other sections are very un-Jewish for a learned orthodox Messianic Jew, the likes of Paul, to proclaim like the whole Church leadership system of elders and deacons which is a pagan concept unknown to Judaism (which was the initial Messianic Faith). Sections like this and others are believed to have been inserted by the Roman Catholic establishment which had almost exclusive rights over the original new Testament Scriptures (which are lost to this day) and during a time when there were no printing presses or means of copying outside of the powerful hold of the Church.
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that modern scholarship today teaches us how many of the writings and epistles ascribed to this Paul in the New Testament were written much later by other "literalistic" pro-Paulinists that lived long after him and that these writings can be shown to be conflicting with the earlier authentic Pauline writings "theologically"? At the root of this is the tension between a "Gnostic" and "anti-Gnostic" Paul and theology and this will come to be apparent to you once your studies progress to this level.
Take a breath and let that sink in. Modern scholarship today, using the results of close scrutiny of these New Testament texts and findings of archeology, teaches us today that what is commonly believed about the Bible and New Testament as a book, its date, authorship and "inspiration", is all quite erroneous. There is scarcely a single item of the common man's presuppositions about the Christian Scriptures concerning such things as "who wrote these books, when they they were written, how the composition was "dictated" or "inspired", what its message really means, in what language it was written, what its assumed historical reference, how and why these "particular" books were selected out of hundreds to become "the Bible," and other subsidiary questions by the score" are seen as "truthful" today when exposed to the light of critical modern religious scholarship today. Your personal study into the origin of the New Testament will this reveal to you, as it did me, and if one does such studies he easily sees today that this Roman New Testament became subjected to the human inclinations of tampering, altering, and religious dishonesty of many sorts. That these earlier sacred writings met with this treatment at the hands of Rome is not only admitted by the historians of Christianity in it early stages, but is even boasted of by the scribes and some of the Church Fathers, who thus initiated the moral justification for such falsification and alteration of the earlier Scriptural wisdom of the Ancients. In other words they "forged" the texts we have today and had the gaul to brag about it in much of their writings. Much evidence exists that substantiates the flagrant practice of literary forgery in the early stages of the emerging Gentile Roman Christian Church beyond anyone's doubt and cannot be denied in view of the facts and comparison of these texts with accurate historical and archeological analysis. We have done this extensively and the results of such comparisons are in many of our Ministry's websites. Once one reads the boasts of the early Church Fathers which attest to this practice and bragging of it then any denials by Christians who read our informative articles will be quietened had they only read the massed evidence to this deception and forgery of the Ancient Wisdom texts; texts by the way that revealed from the foundation of mankind God's true message to all His creation which both was and is yet today transmitted to all mankind by "the Christ" and the "Jewish Jesus" and Judaism but sadly is lacking in the Romanized Gospel of Paul.
Paulinism with its many implications has become a real heresy. The natural result of this warped system will undoubtedly be to discount the Words of God, abolish the underlying true essence of the Message of the Kingdom for this age, and present seeking believers with another Gospel, which is called the "Gospel of Grace". No greater lie has ever been foisted upon the people of God than this terrible misrepresentation of the True Purpose and Plan of the Creator God for man. This great lie is embodied in the so-called "New Gospel of Grace", which is accredited to the apostle Paul according to "his" interpretation. Church tradition states that this "Paul" wrote 13 letters, and each one of them started with his own name! He used the personal pronoun I, me, or my, 949 times! In the twelfth chapter of 2 Corinthians, the big personal pronoun was used seven times in the sixth verse alone; 60 times in the same chapter of 21 verses! This is rather amazing since each of the Gospels is "nameless" and authorship unknown. We find this Romanized Paul declared that he was "not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles" (2 Cor, 11:5); and again: "In nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles" (2 Cor, 12:11). These are assertions which are rather hard to accept in light of the historical evidence to the contrary.
Answer for yourself: In comparing this claim of Paul to superiority, with Hebrews 3:1, where Messiah is also referred to as an Apostle, we find cause to wonder if Paul, the former Gentile "Saul of Tarsus", perhaps thought himself to be "not a whit behind" the "Christ"? Did he actually think he was equal with the "Christ"? Would a real person say all of these things when there are many warnings in the Bible against self-exaltation: "I am YHWH; that is My Name: and My Glory will I not give to another" (Isa.42:8). And James reminds us (chapter 3, verse 5), "the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.
In any event, masses of Christians today regard Paul as just such - and even more, considering that they allow this Paul to have authority over the Law of God, claiming it to have been replaced, done away with, nullified, nailed to the Cross! As such, they regard him as author of a New Gospel; a Gospel that contradicts the Gospel of the Jewish Jesus and "the Christ".
The writer of these epistles, definitely not the Gnostic Paul, in his constant reference to himself, has thrown an element of confusion into his message, which has blinded the eyes of many. According to these texts in the Roman New Testament this Paul did, unquestionably, have a divine revelation - but not a new Gospel. He was instructed of the Lord; not of men; but he was not given a different Message! Paul consistently preached the Gospel of the Kingdom to the very end of his ministry: "Preaching the Kingdom of God (Acts 28 : 31); "The glorious Gospel of Messiah (2 Cor. 4:4); also 2 Thess. 1:8; Rom. 15:19 - all of these statements deny that this apostle was the chosen herald of a New Gospel. But yet we have one ascribed to him in this New Testament.
Devotees of the heresy of "grace unlimited", find abundant support for their distorted teachings in the epistles of Paul. There are millions of present-day professing Christians who actually believe that this apostle was the founder of a New Gospel of Grace. It is this teaching that has opened the door of the church to the world: unrestricted license, freedom and liberty from all law to any who will accept and believe the new Gospel. It is this interpretation which has heralded these present times of lawlessness and crime without proper judgment in the world.
This fact of doctrinal manipulation by Rome and others increasingly complicates our study not only of these conflicting "gospels" we find in the New Testament but the true Paul himself. I have a website devoted to the "Pauline Problem" where I take to task this "literalistic Paul" of Rome's invention and the forgeries of the Hebrew Scriptures and the anti-Law bias penned in his name by Rome which "reinterprets the Christ". In tension with this study we offer a website as well dealing with the authentic Gnostic Paul where I can be much more kind to this man when dealing only with his authentic writings which are full of "Spiritual Truth" and, when compared with the message of the Jewish Jesus (the Christ), does no damage to the Gospel of this Jewish Jesus. This authentic Gnostic Paul is not without problems however, but we will see this pales in comparison when considering what Rome did to the revelation of God to all mankind and the alteration of His Christ along with this anti-Law bias and we will look at this small Pauline problem later on in this site when dealing with the Antioch Incident. But understand from this moment on that what we have before us in the New Testament is a convoluted puzzle of religious contradictions of immense proportions created by the hands of Rome who consistently added to and changed the earlier Ancient revelations of God, His Laws, and His "Christ" in order to separate themselves from the "Jewish way" which carried and still does carry today these Ancient understandings of God and His Christ in their purest forms. Now don't resign your church or make any changes yet to your religious beliefs; let us continue to study for quite a while until you see and acquire enough "puzzle pieces" to see these truths about "the Christ", the two Pauls, the forgery of the Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament, and the conflicting Gospels in this New Testament for yourself. Only then should you repent and speak to God about what you have learned and necessary corrections in your "religious belief system".
Now let us begin the study of the Romanized Paul and what the Gospel reputed to be, as he says, "my gospel" which contradicts the Gospel of Jesus.
It is not difficult to trace Paul's conversion and the genesis of his philosophy out of his own writings. His mind at the time when he journeyed to Damascus was obsessed by two sets of ideas: the heresy of the Nazarenes and the Scriptures. Paul, at first a Sadducee, would later come to find out he was wrong and the Nazarenes, instead of being a heresy, was indeed orthodoxy. That was not the only thing Paul is wrong about as we are seeing. Yet in fairness to Paul, there is a great chance that much of his writings and thoughts were, as mentioned above, "reworked" and "edited" by Rome in the production of their New Testament as many of his supposed later "anti-Gnostic beliefs" have the marks of tampering and a closer affinity to Rome's "literalizing" of the Ancient Wisdom than with Judaism.
As his zeal drove him from place to place hunting for heretics (at first Paul was a Sadducee working for the Chief Priest and carried letters to arrest the Nazarenes), he actively searched the Scriptures for arguments to confound these dissenters from orthodoxy, with the result, as happens so often in like circumstances, that suddenly the other side of the proverbial "coin" flashed into view and gave a new direction to his thoughts. Paul came to understand that he had been simply wrong in many of his "beliefs". This is what I hope happens to our readers when provoked to deeper thought than usual when confronted with undeniable facts which expose the fallacy of much of our inherited Christian faith which is based often more in fiction than truth.
Paul was present at the stoning of Stephen, and heard the latter's defense of his belief. He must have listened to many such speeches and arguments (based on Scripture texts) from those of the sect whom he hunted down and dragged before the priestly tribunals. Their arguments are bound to have left impressions on his mind, which gradually would create doubts as to his own beliefs. If at any time such a doubt arose in Paul's mind, and we know that it did arise, there was but one way of settling it; namely by the Scriptures.
We have seen what were Paul's conclusions and the kind of arguments on which these were based. The Messiah, it occurred to him, had been promised; therefore that promise "needs must have been fulfilled." There was no getting over that " fact" since the Prophets had spoken repeatedly of this "coming one". Not only had Paul nothing more substantial to start with or to build upon, but it would have been quite impossible to suggest to him anything more convincing or reliable than Scripture prophecy. For him, at that time, there was, and there could be, no more solid fact. In later years, however, Paul, or should I say a pro-Paulinist writer, would substitute "his own gospel" for the message of the Hebrew Scriptures (Ignatius Singer, The Rival Philosophies of Jesus and of Paul, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., p. 26). This rare book is quite excellent and I recommend it highly if you can find it. This substitution of "anti-Law ideas" to the degree that it is done along with the "literalization" of "the Christ" is the crux of this "other Gospel" which cleverly these New Testament forgers, using Paul's name, fake us into accepting all the while warning us to stay away form this "other gospel" which ironically happens to be the true one as taught by this "Jewish Jesus" as "the Christ".
Gal 1:6-8 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (KJV)
Very clever!
The Messiah had been promised, so that promise must have been fulfilled. This is Paul's reasoning.
Answer for yourself: But who was this Messiah ?
There seems to have been some doubt at first whether this distinction belonged to John the Baptist. I cannot get into this now but there will come a time in your studies, hopefully, when you can tackle seriously Gnosticism and become aware of the "Joshua-Jesus" concept of antiquity and the role of John the Baptist and I will leave it at that for right now for it plays strongly in the "historical Jesus" discussion of today. The question of John the Baptist being the hoped for Messiah was no small one, but following his death it was settled, if not by Paul, then by someone before him, in the only way in which everything relating to Christ has been settled from the days of Paul down to our own time: "It is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee" (Mark 1:2). That settled it. With the death of John the Baptist he must not have been the expected Messiah but only "the messenger" for the one to come. The Messiah is yet to come. Unknown to many Christians today is the fact that John the Baptist was believed by many to be the expected Messiah of Israel. But John was killed. Therefore, the theology attached to John the Baptist had to be changed again. John came first, so following his death he was made the "messenger" and therefore this provided again the opportunity of God's Salvation (the word "Jesus" means in Hebrew and Greek "God's Salvation") to come in the wake of the death of John the Baptist. You see John the Baptist was not in the final analysis this "Yeshua" or this "Jesus", or the hoped for "Gods' Salvation" (note the word and its true meaning and the way it is used) awaited and prayed for so long by these persecuted Jews, so it was believed that this "God's Salvation" or this "Jesus" was yet to come. This had to be in light of the death of a physical and historical John the Baptist who really lived in the first century whom the Gnostic Essenes had hoped to be the reincarnation of their slain Messiah of Egypt, the son of Moses, the Pharaoh Tutankhamun (one of the 4 Hebrew Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty), who the Rabbis and the Talmud teach us was slain on the eve of the Passover and hung on a tree (sound familiar....kind of like the "Jesus Story"?) at Sinai in and around 1,350 B.C.E. Wow, that was a loaded sentence for your further study. These Essenes and soon to be "Christians" had prayed for the return of their "Joshua-Jesus" since their Hebrew forefathers had killed this Egyptian "Messa" or Messiah many years before when the Pharaoh Tutankhamun had attempted to reconcile Egypt with Moses and his followers. Such compromise of the Laws of Moses on Tutankhamun's part got him crucified on a tree on the eve of the Egyptian Passover in and around 1,350 B.C.E. Yet, this "coming one" was not the reincarnation of this "Living Image of the Lord" then it was again believed and hoped that their slain "Teacher of Righteousness" who died in and around 70 B.C.E. would return to "save" Israel from the "wicked priests" and Roman invaders. These Essenes needed Gods' salvation to come, they needed this "Joshua-Jesus" to come in any fashion that God would send. That is all the "rabbits" I will chase for now but know that these two figures play prominently in the later "historical Jesus" search. Search as we may for the historical Jesus one thing must be kept in focus; namely, the message of this "Joshua-Jesus" and the "Christ".
But no sooner had one such difficulty been solved than others cropped up, which kept Paul busy all his life and others after him to the present day. It seams satisfactorily settled that this "Jesus", whomever he would be, was to be the embodiment of "the Christ", the Saviour. But, being God's Saviour, then this "Jesus" should have saved Israel but Israel suffered and eventually was destroyed in 70 B.C.E. and no Messiah appeared to fulfill the Hebrew prophecies as written by the Prophets and Israel was conquered and exiled at the hands of Rome. There appeared "no Salvation from God". No "Jesus, as God's Salvation" appeared. The later oral traditions, long after the failure of God's Salvation to manifest for Israel, maintained that that "this Jesus", like John the Baptist and the earlier Teacher of Righteousness and the Egyptian "Joshua-Jesus" (Tutankhamun) long before, died as well, and left things pretty much as they had existed for Israel. This "God's Salvation", this "Jesus" must have come but Israel missed him or obviously did not "merit" him. This Jesus, or "God's salvation", in hindsight, was believed by man to have had supposedly come and unrecognized, failed to be revealed and likewise failed to fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures and was believed to have been one of thousands to have died by the hands of Rome in these troubled times. Israel had missed the day of her visitation and judgment was her reward. Israel was guilty of violating the Second Tablet of The Law of God and had been judged unworthy of being God's "Royal Priesthood" to the world.
Paul, drawing upon the oral traditions would ask in light of the failure of the Scriptures to be fulfilled right before his death: "Shall it be said then that Christ has failed in his mission? " God forbid," says Paul; let us search the Scriptures.
Paul never went to the Scriptures in vain. He discovered what till then had been hidden from all the wise, that in and through Adam all have sinned: and so he argued that
1 Cor 15:21-22 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (KJV)
Therefore, according to this "literalized" and "Romanized" Paul, this "Jesus" must have come and died and in dying saved us by dying for our sins. Repentance is not needed for this atonement. His death was the very act of salvation: he gave himself as a ransom. Notice however, according to Paul, Jesus died not, however, for everybody, but for those ONLY who will believe "in him".
Rom 10:9 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (KJV)
The Pauline influence in Christianity has been felt now for almost 2,000 years. Christians believe that our soul will live after our death and everyone will receive either salvation, which is the blessed eternity or damnation, which is the cursed eternity. Salvation is simple in parts of the New Testament.
Luke, a follower of this Paul and chronicler of his ministry tells us how to receive salvation in Acts 16:30-31: Act 16:30-31 "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They [Paul and Silas] replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and thy house". The answer is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for this salvation. This same friend and travel companion of Paul will also tell us: Act 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. This verse refers back to Jesus mentioned in verse 10.
Pauline Christianity reiterates that one must ask and have accepted Jesus into your life, your whole life. This will require faith. Let us look again at Romans 10:9 "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord', & believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."). It's not enough to believe that Jesus was a man who lived at some point in history. We must believe that he is our Lord and that God raised him from the dead. We must believe in our hearts, which is to say, we must be sincere in our belief and be fully committed to that belief. It cannot be any simpler. Getting saved is so simple and we are assured that all we need to do is just believe in a set "doctrine" connected with this Jesus say something like this: "I come to you God in the name of your son Jesus Christ. I now confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins and was raised from the dead. I confess I am a sinner and ask you to forgive my sins and I put my eternal soul into your hands. Jesus please save me." Nowhere here is the idea of repentance, a contrite and broken heart, restitution to the wronged, renewed obedience to the Laws and Commandments in our Covenants with God nor progressive sanctification and progressive salvation of the Soul which Judaism teaches. Nothing is mentioned about "deeds" and "good works" as the manifestation of our obedience to the Commandments of God which Jesus teaches in his "Gospel".
Paul continues to elaborate on this easy salvation message: 1 Cor 15:2 By this gospel (Paul's gospel) you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. Paul, or a later Roman "falsifier" of religious texts, just nullified the Gospel of Jesus in this verse. Paul tells his listeners that they are saved by the gospel "he" preached. We must not only read or hear the gospel, but also believe it. As can be seen by the other passages, the main theme is it takes a belief in Jesus to be saved.
Answer for yourself: Are we to have "faith in Jesus" or "the faith of Jesus"?
Christianity maintains that there no amount of money we can spend or any good deed we can perform to buy our salvation, but instead we must only make the choice to freely accept God's offer of salvation and respond only with a "mental acceptance" of the orthodox "creed" or "beliefs" associated with this Jesus as taught by my denomination or non-denomination. But if we think real hard there are things we have to "do" just like what this "Jewish Jesus" said "must be done" although they are drastically different:
To be saved as a Christian under this "Romanized-literalistic" Pauline Theology we must:
According to this Romanized Paul's Gospel, I sure would not have wanted to live in the first century, say in Iceland, because if I had, according to this Romanized Paul, the chance of the news of this Jesus's death for my sin and his presumed resurrection from the dead surely most likely would not have arrived in Iceland in time for my consideration and I would have most likely died "damned" by God. I guess God did not love me or like me even. Most likely, not having radio or television in the first century, I would have died in Iceland never hearing such a "gospel" and the inability of Jesus to make sure such a "necessary" message be taken to me would have surely doomed me. God and this Jesus would have let me down. Somehow the "necessary" part of this salvation message would have passed me by and I would not have "believed" correctly and been damned. For me, such a salvation message always bothered me as a child and is a stretch to the serious thinker that the arbitrariness of Jesus and God is at stake. But good news is here. In other other websites I detail where this Romanized Paul got such ideas of this "sacrificial atonement" along with the prior Essenes since it never existed in Judaism except with the fringe movements like these very Essenes and only then in the inter-Testamental times. When one studies true Biblical Atonement one sees through the falsehoods of this Romanized Salvation message. Again I cannot get into this now buy it behooves the reader to come to an understanding of Gnosticism and "literalized sunworship" where the ancient Divine allegories of God and "His Christ" and this "Descent of the Soul" into matter/flesh are later "literalized" and in so doing see how Rome distorted and corrupted the Divine Truths expressed for thousands of years up and until the 3rd century when Rome produces their forged Bibles and their "false Christ" along with the "false Gospel" given to us in Paul's name. Never will a more profitable study be done by anyone who calls himself by the name of "Christian".
In summary fashion, according to this Romanized Paul all are under the wrath of God from the start (Eph. 2:3) and are lost without exception (Rom. 15; 1 Cor. 15:18), all are without hope and without God (Eph. 2:12), for Satan has power over all (Rom. 3:9; Gal. 3:22; Col. 2:14). There is a judgement of damnation by God against everyone without exception (Rom. 5:16; cf also Rom. 8:1). This wrath of God (which also applies to new-born babes as well who have never "sinned") can, according to to this Romanized Paul, only be averted by the death and the blood of this literal Jesus, and only the death and the blood of this literal Jesus can atone for the 'original guilt' (cf Col. 1:22 ; and Heb. 9:22): ' . . . and without shedding of blood is no remission'. By adopting this idea of the vicarious sacrifice of the first-born son, this Romanized Paul slips off the path of Judaism and teaches a different atonement than the one know to the Patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the Prophets and Judaism as a whole. This Romanized Paul and his anti-Law bias as well as his anti-Gnostic presentation by Rome through altering and forging epistles in his name along with other non-Pauline alteration in their New Testament turns Jesus' teaching of Salvation upside down and changes it and nullifies the true message of God whereby mankind can make themselves acceptable to Him.
According to the teaching of this Romanized Paul, the human individual is unable to attain Salvation and atonement before God by any good works of his own, or by any change however good (Rom. 3:24, 3:28, 9:11, 9:16; 1 Cor. 1:29; Gal. 2:16): 'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.' This of course is again 180 degrees opposite to the first five books of the Bible and the Laws of Moses as well as the Prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures. Consequently the precondition for the action of God's Grace is the acceptance of the Pauline teaching on Grace; that means membership in the Church of Paul and of course this is the Roman Gentile Church which has separated itself from its Jewish Roots and rivers of life long ago.
Based on Paul, the Christian churches today still teach that the Salvation of all was perfectly finished once and for all by the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, and that men would have absolutely nothing to contribute to it, apart from simply accepting this kind of Salvation in a single act of conversion (baptism) along with "mental assent" and "belief" in this doctrine. Nothing more is needed to reach the purpose and goal of life, for Jesus has already done all that is needful for us anyway, as our representative. This leads on to the idea that any attempt to participate in Salvation by one's own effort can be taken as a belittling of the service rendered by Jesus, and even as an original sin, as a futile attempt at self-salvation. According to this view anyone holding different beliefs, however exemplary the life he has led (such as Gandhi), is considered to be lost if he does not accept the Cross sacrifice for himself, in other words if he refuses to profess the Pauline Christianity.
Naturally it is an attractive and tempting offer, to be released from all responsibility for one's actions and the consequences of bad acts and thoughts, in a simple and comfortable way, by a few splashes of water. One only needs to ask Constantine who deferred his baptism until the approach of death in order to obliterate a life of murder; baptism supposedly washing away all his sin. The reader is probably anxious to be informed of the details of these crimes. The father-in-law that Constantine strangled was the Emperor Maximian, whom, in February, AD 310, he defeated and captured at Marseilles. The brother-in-law whom he punished with the same fate was his rival Licinius, who fell into his hands after the siege of Byzantium, in AD 324, and who was secretly executed after being publicly pardoned. The deaths of these relatives may be explained by the rules of statecraft, but no such excuse can be offered with respect to the other victims of Constantine's cruelty. In July, AD 325, he publicly disgraced and privately murdered his eldest son Crispus, for no other crime than his virtues and his reputation. The Caesar Licinius, a nephew of Constantine, was involved in the ruin of Crispus and shared his fate, notwithstanding his youth and amiable manners, and the tears and entreaties of his mother. The first Christian emperor soon afterwards completed the list of his domestic murders by suffocating his wife Fausta in "the steam of a bath, which, for that purpose, had been heated to an extraordinary degree." This unfortunate lady was accused of adultery, and "her condemnation and punishment," says Gibbon, "were the instant consequences of the charge." After the commission of these atrocious crimes, it is no wonder that the people were discontented, and that satirical verses were affixed to Constantine's palace-gate, comparing him with the bloody and ferocious Nero. And Constantine was "saved" as the very last. Sure he was???
Such conduct is the fruit of a "Torahless" Salvation Message and an anti-Law Salvation Message. Jesus and "the Christ" never taught such a doctrine and never could and would never dream of connection such thoughts with inheriting Eternal Life. The doomful consequences of this form of Salvation doctrine finally lead to a kind of trade in indulgences, where the offender can count in advance on the annulment of his guilt before God and his conscience. Therefore even the worst misdemeanors against any fellow creatures have no consequence. That is why the Roman Empire-Church-State ruled the world with this theology for 1,800 years and the world calls this time "the Dark Ages". Lawlessness abounded supported by Roman Religion.
But this idea is completely alien to the teaching of "Jesus" and "the Christ". Honest scholars today, not brainwashed by Roman theology, state, when speaking of this Jesus, that it was far from his mind, to form a hierarchical bureaucracy with laws and scriptural doctors, with belief in the letter of the law and arguments about interpretations, with cult and image worship, with 'churchianity' and claims to exclusive rights to bless. He wanted to preach the intimacy between the Divine/Soul and the human individual, and not self-aggrandizing channels of official instances set up by self-righteous administrators of God. "The Christ" teaches us through the example of the New Testament Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels the true message of God and His true Salvation Message. The "Pattern for Life" is given us through this example of "the Christ" as this "Jesus "of the Synoptic Gospels. This is the same "Salvation Message" uttered in these Synoptic Gospels that existed in Egypt as told through the "Osiris/Horus Story" that we find handed down throughout Ancient times which culminated in the "Jesus Story" in the Oral Traditions of "the Christ" which is later written down in the Synoptic Gospels. "The Christ" of God teaches us this Divine Truth by giving us a symbolic living example in this "Jewish Jesus" which reveals to us the way to Eternal Life through the renunciation of self-concerned thinking and acting, unbiased care for all living beings, giving and sharing, the greatest possible tolerance towards people of other convictions, taking on the suffering of others and feeling compassion for them, in other words unlimited love in action for all fellow beings. For those who have studied with us for some time recognize this as obedience to the Second Tablet of the Law which brings "Eternal Life" for all who live according to these principles and precepts.
Answer for yourself: How can we know how to "do" these above things correctly? Well, simply the Torah of the Jews and well as the 42 Negative Confessions of Egypt teach us how to train our Souls to master our animal bodies with their carnal instincts and in so doing elevate that part of our fleshly home to the Kingdom of God through submission to our Souls within! This dear one is the "Christ Within" who grows to Lordship in our lives. This is the "Pattern" for our salvation given since the beginning of time and passed down from nation to nation by the true Spiritual Masters of every nation under God.
What we today refer to as Christianity is a misinterpretation of this Ancient Wisdom and twisting by Rome of these precious concepts and their disparaging reinterpretation and transformation of the Gnostic Paul who taught the true teaching of "the Christ" before being turned into a Roman Frankenstein with a twisted gospel in these forged New Testament texts. Knowledge about this misinterpretation, and the doctrine of Salvation by the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus which is given a central place in it, has long belonged to the truisms of modern theological and church historical research. Unfortunately until now these truths have been suppressed by all possible means, and therefore they have not penetrated to the minds of the average Christian "believer". Even at the start of the eighteenth century the English philosopher Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751) noticed two completely different religions in the New Testament, that of Jesus and that of Paul. Kant, Lessing, Fichte and Schelling also clearly distinguished between the teaching of Jesus and what the later supposed 'apostles' made of it. A large number of reputed modern theologians have come to acknowledge this fact and having read their books my eyes were opened to this fact like never before and I feel constrained to warn my other brothers and sisters in God to this terrible deception that goes unnoticed by so many.
One can now ask why it took 2,000 years before the Pauline Salvation idea could be shown as absurd by these modern methods, by considering the legacy left by Jesus. One possible answer is that there has never been such an urgent need for an honest study of the heritage of Jesus, to finally get back to the true message of his teaching. But those times are changing due to advances in archeology and the information age that is bringing this information and knowledge to our homes and bookstores.
As if the above is not enough to show the contrast between a Salvation message of "deed" with "creed", as mentioned in the first article in this series, when one investigates Ancient Gentile religions long before Judaism by studying Gnosticism and Comparative Religions one finds these same religious tenets connected to mankind's salvation in much of Pauline theology associated with Eternal Life but you have to sift them out from the muddled mess given us by Rome where Gnostic and anti-Gnostic passages are mixed together in the same epistles that carry Paul's name. Instead of being interpreted "literally" as the New Testament depicts and as we have been instructed to do our whole lives, we find if we study these areas mentioned above that these same religious tenets attached to obtaining Eternal Life were ALWAYS understood allegorically and symbolically as attached to godly symbolic characters or "sungods" which were to serve, not only as our example, but vehicles and anthropomorphic examples to express to us the metaphysical concept of the Descent of the Divine Soul into our flesh where the daily battle of Spirit and Flesh rages. It is our task to awaken to the fact of the "Indwelling Christ Jesus" within and allow this Divine Spark to grow within us and energize our bodies to be servants of the Most High God and His vehicles in manifesting His will on this plane of existence we call "life".
Plato himself said that "men (the Souls of God/Divine Conscious Energy of God) are placed in the body as in a prison." He even considered the body as the sepulcher of the soul, an idea that carried one step farther the ancient Egyptian representation of the body, personalized in the Goddess Hathor, as the "bird-cage of the soul." The Ancients understood that this imprisonment of God in matter, the Soul in this fleshly body, was like an imprisonment and was equated with the idea of "death". This might be hard to comprehend for you at first but the Soul, in leaving a perfect home in Heaven to become matter or the flesh of man was expressed as a "death" or a "sacrifice" of God Himself.
Phil 2:5-8 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (KJV)
Unknown to Christians is that the idea of this above passage has been taught since time immemorial about the Descent of the Soul and the death of God/Soul in becoming "matter/flesh" when leaving the plane of Spiritual existence we call "Heaven" and in so doing this Divine God/Energy intersected with physical matter (incarnation) which was symbolized by a cross (intersection of two planes of existence). This pouring out of God's life was likened by the Ancients to God pouring out his Life-Energy or "blood", since "Life is in the blood) for the salvation of the Soul/Mankind. Rome changes this Divine Concept by "literalizing" it and in so doing changes the truth about "the Christ" by "literalizing" it and at the same time changes as well the "Message of this Christ Within" by nullifying the goal of the Souls' incarnation in mankind in the first place. The Soul was sent here by the First Cause, God, to complete its spiritual maturation and growth which is accomplished by obedience to the Laws of God which is accomplished only by living a life of "deeds" done in the flesh of existence. This was nullified by Rome by changing the true Salvation Message of God from "deeds" to "creeds" in their anti-Law New Testament along with the forgery of Paul and mankind is not aware today, without much study, that the pathway for the Soul's achievement of Eternal Life and return to the Father God has been tragically altered by Rome and their antisemitism.
Let me give you one example. Taylor, in commenting on the writings of Macrobius, writes: "The soul in the present life may be said to die, as far as it is possible for a soul to die; occultly intimating that the death of the soul was nothing more than a profound union with the ruinous bonds of the body." To impart to the body its life by linking to it the soul's more dynamic voltage (the Cosmic Conscious Energy/Spirit we call God), nature exacted from the higher principle the plenary quantum of its life to be offered as an oblation for the benefit of the lower order. So the body lived the "death" of soul, as soul died unto the life of the body", as Heraclitus would have put it .
All this is explicitly set forth in appropriate phraseology by Taylor Thomas who, in his Select Works of Porphyry says: "What is here said by Plato is beautifully unfolded by Olympiodorus in his MS Commentary on the Gorgias, as follows: 'Euripides (in Phryxo) says that to live is to die, and to die is to live. For the soul, coming hither, as she imparts life to the body, so she partakes through this of a certain privation of life; but this is an evil. When separated, therefore, from the body, she lives in reality; for she dies here, through participating in privation of life, because the body becomes the source of evils. And hence it is necessary to subdue the body.'"
The logic of all this is at least on the face of it unquestionable, unarguable. If the soul is called upon in incarnation to give away its life to the lower organism (the physical realm of mankind) it certainly can not retain possession of it for itself. Here we have the ground foundation of the great central arch in the temple of religion known as the sacrificial oblation of the Son of God (the Sons of God when speaking of souls in the plural), who gave his life for the world of men. He threw his energic powers into the bodies of mortals so that they might have this connection with a battery of higher dynamism (God the Father), by drawing upon which they might rise to a higher and more abundant life than as natural creatures they could ever gain without such condescension of the gods. The Sons of God had to give their life and die on the cross of matter, that lower orders might have a viable link with divinity.
Answer for yourself: Did you know the Ancients spoke of a "Cross" of Matter? Since we know it was the 6th century before Christianity attached a man to the crucifix then what was the original meaning of the "Cross" in Ancient Religions and does it have anything to do with the need to subdue the body which is mentioned above?
A "cross" is two intersecting planes or lines which reflect different planes of existence. In our discussion the Ancients understood that the realm of Invisible, Uncreated, Intelligent Energy of the Cosmos and Universe, this God had entered into the physical visible realm of existence and all things that consisted were comprised of God in various manifestations. So this simple cross depicted for them religiously that they were made in the image of God for this God has "breathed into physical visible clay" His Spirit/Soul and this animated and energized this animate matter and it became a "Living Soul". These two realms of existence merged and through the death of the Soul leaving its Spiritual perfect home to become associated and imprisoned within sinful matter and flesh the Ancients likened this to a death of sorts. So general was this conception among the intelligent in the Greek sphere of culture that the soul's entry into body at the latter's birth was called its burial. One needs but recur to the Epistles of St. Paul to find evidence of the great Apostle's accord with this element of Greek philosophy. He speaks of the "law of death" "which is in my members." Flesh and body at war with the Soul and Spirit. The clamor of the sensuous desires long overwhelms the still small voice of the spirit. A hasty and too simple deduction from all this seemed to dictate the drastic subjugation of the fleshly appetites and crucifixion of body by various asceticisms but that is not the case. God, in His infinite wisdom, gave Egypt and the Jews the Torah, when read, studied, and patterned elevates a person to Heaven, enabling a person to break beyond the limits of earthly nature, thereby becoming holy like his Father in Heaven. The Torah, when obeyed, sanctifies all actions of mankind and elevates them from the "secular" to the "sacred". All animals eat but by saying a "blessing" we set apart such a mundane action and sanctify it and make it "holy"; thereby we elevate the Soul within along with this carnal body and separate ourselves from the basest desires of the flesh. This is but one Law of the Torah that perfects us and changes us into the image of God. Our Souls are perfected by such actions and we learn these "actions" and "how they are accomplished" by patterning our lives to the Torah and the Laws of God given us for our Salvation contained with this Torah of the Jews. This Torah, which the Romanized Paul assures us is a curse and passed away in the New Testament.
It is Rome's clever "synthesis" and "reinterpretation" of these same truths in the Ancient Wisdom and religious doctrines that eased the spread of "literalized" Christianity and Romanized Paulinism as well as the ease of the Catholic Church's world-wide propagation of a "literalized Pauline Gospel" since it had a little bit of something from everywhere which almost everyone who heard it was somewhat familiar. Only now instead of an allegory whereby they could personally relate to "the Christ Within" now it was altered, the keys to its proper interpretation lost, words and concepts redefined and "literalized" and in so doing "another gospel" was being formed. The "Christ Within" has become the "Christ Without" localized in a historical Jesus only and he is long gone only to hopefully return to make things right one day. All the while we miss our visitation of God within while He waits for us to discover "the Christ Within" us all and awaken to the fact that we are God's messiahs here in this world today.
The "myths of the dying/rising godman" had become "literal" and "historical" with this Roman "Jesus" no more did man understand that behind the "Jesus Story" one finds the awesome truth of the deposition of God's Soul (the Christ) within this dark matter of the flesh was termed by the Ancients the "crucifixion of the Christ on the cross of matter" and the subsequent awakening of his Soul within mankind was his "resurrection" and the end of one's physical life was ironically the end of this "death" which is really his "resurrected life again" and the beginning of this "life" occurs at his death. Well, we got part of it right. In theGorgias of Plato, Socrates says to Cebes: "For indeed, as you also say, life is a grievous things. For I should not wonder if Euripies spoke the truth when he says: 'Who knows whether to live is not to die, and to die is not to live?' And perhaps we are in reality dead. For I have heard from one of the wise that we are now dead; and that the body is our sepulcher; but that the part of the soul in which the desire are contained is of such a nature that it can be persuaded and hurled upwards and downwards."
Answer for yourself: What is he saying here? The intimation here clearly is that Socrates is speaking of the Soul in man, which, standing midway between the physical body and the Divine Spirit above, is capable of being drawn either downward into "death" under the dominance of sensual appetites or upward into Heavenly life by the attraction of the beauty of virtue (Alvin Kuhn, The Lost Key To The Scriptures, Kessenger Publications, p. 24).
This is the "key" missing from Christianity today that when understood correctly along with its corresponding message restores God's true Salvation Message to mankind. All this is explicitly set forth in as mentioned above by Taylor when he says in light of this revelation that "it is necessary to subdue the body" and this is done through submitting to the Torah and the message of the "Jewish Christ".
But note also that this Paul, at the hands of Rome, limits this "Salvation" offered by Paul's Gospel to ONLY those who "believe it". This limitation was obviously necessary, or there would have been no further need for Paul or his gospel. Salvation, therefore, was made conditional on belief in the gospel of Paul, and this again was crafted by Rome in "Paul's" name quite often. The true and conflicting Gospel of Jesus the Jew, a message of "deeds" over "creeds", reiterating the Ancient Egyptian "gospel" found in the 42 Negative Confessions was not taught by this "Romanized Paul" nor by Rome who forged so much in his name.
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that in all of Paul's writings given us in the New Testament that he mentions only 2 of Jesus's teachings, two sentences only, and after doing that, Paul is quick to bring his own interpretation on the matter as if we needed it? According to Paul, mankind were still in their sins, repentance and renewed obedience to the Laws of God had no place for this Law and its requirements of mankind "ended with Christ". By "believing the accepted 'creed'" and by "baptism" anybody could bring himself within the operation of this "new dispensation" or Salvation. This is where "faith" came in, and explains the necessity for the strangest of all doctrines, that faith counts for more than works ["creed" counts more than "deed"]. If you remember we proved in the first article in this series that this is not what Jesus taught on the matter. The question remains: who will you trust to for your Eternal Life: Paul's message on inheriting Eternal Life or Jesus' message of inheriting Eternal Life?
Following such reasoning it follows almost as a logical necessity that "he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, and he who believes not shall be damned." There you have it in a nutshell. Case closed!
Above all this Romanized Paul wants his audience to believe that his "gospel" is the word of the Lord. The Greek word is Strong's # 3056 Logos:
Notice that Paul is referencing his "vision" as the "word of the Lord". There is only one problem. This same Paul says in 2 Cor 13:1:
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (KJV)
We have Paul's own admonition that every Word from God must pass the test of being verified in the mouth of two or three witnesses. We simply do not find such a "Pauline doctrine of salvation" as espoused by Paul in the New Testament in the Old Testament or in the writings of the Prophets of the Old Testament. It is just not there; thus our major problem. We have a unique and contradicting revelation of just one person!
In fact just the opposite of what Paul taught is found in almost every book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures.
Verification of Paul's doctrines, by two or three other witnesses as taught by Paul himself, are simply wanting.
This brings into question the veracity of such a doctrine as taught by this Romanized Paul.
When one has a through understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures, as they exist in the Hebrew texts and not the forged Greek texts, and these committed to memory, then when one approaches the Pauline corpus of literature in the New Testament, one finds hundreds of misquotations, mistranslations, verses taken completely out of context, as well as the lifting of parts of two or three Jewish passages and combining them in order that they say something completely different than what the original authors intended. Not only that you can see pure Scriptural inventions for what they truly are; lies! With such an understanding of the texts one see just how there prior "religious beliefs" of Judaism, for example which exalts the Law, were subsequently changed along with the identity of "the Christ". This escapes most Christians who have not dedicated themselves to such intense study as I and others.
When, for instance, Paul was spurned by the Jews (among whom he had only a scant following) and had to turn to the "heathen" to get a hearing, though still insisting on " the Jew first", he had neither difficulty nor scruples in "proving" that "uncircumcision was no bar to salvation," since the Law no longer applied in his understanding. For, he argued, "if they (the Jews) which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of none effect" (Rom. 4:14).
Answer for yourself: What "promise"? One possibly made by Jesus?
Far from it. Jesus is never so much as quoted by this self-appointed apostle of "Christ" in his epistles. In Acts 20::35 Paul is represented as quoting from Jesus, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." But nowhere in his epistles does he quote him.
It is another Scripture text which Paul had unearthed, a "prophecy", that had not the slightest bearing on the matter he was discussing, and the sole office of which was to lend support to his fanciful theories. Here is the "promise" as quoted by Paul: "its it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations" (Rom. 4:17). Therefore, argues Paul, "if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void and the promise to Abraham of none effect."
In this wise Paul argued difficulties out of his way, showing from the Scriptures how this or that proposition of his must needs be so, until, by a master-stroke, he proved from the Scripturesthat the Scriptures were no longer of any account at all:
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (Rom 10:4). "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:13).
"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter" (Rom. 7:6).
"For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law" (Heb. 7:12).
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" (Rom. 3:4). "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace" (Rom 6:14).
This is the way Paul met the objections of the Jews when they opposed the Scriptures and his use of them in his anti-Law teachings. Not being able to meet their arguments, he got rid of the Scriptures themselves.
The old "covenant" has lapsed and a new one has taken its place. " In that he (God! says, A new covenant, he bath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away" (Heb. 8:13).
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Gal. 3:13).
" The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ." (Gal. 3:24).
How convenient for Paul....but the Jewish people and their Rabbis knew and know today different.
Answer for yourself: Then what has taken its place?
I will let Paul himself answer this question: " Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel" (2 Tim. 2:8).
No longer, be it noted, "according to the Scriptures," but "according to my gospel."
" In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel" (Rom. 2:16).
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Gal. 1:8).
Answer for yourself: Where did Paul get his gospel, for which he claimed such authority that he would tolerate no interference with its decrees even by an angel from heaven?
I will again let Paul give his own answer:
"I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ" (Gal. 1:12).
Now we are supposed to believe that this Jesus Christ, a supposed Jew and hoped for Messiah, just did away with the Laws of Moses and the Laws of Noah and yet is the hoped for Messiah. That is impossible to a "thinking believer".
Paul admits that he got "his" Gospel in a trance, that is; for, as we shall presently see, Paul never had any communication with a historical Jesus himself either directly or indirectly; never even troubled to inform himself what Jesus taught by consulting those who might have known. The texts supposedly teach us that after his conversion he waited 3 years before he went and spoke to the Apostles, and then after a short visit where he saw Peter and James, it would be another 14 years before he would see the Apostles again. This does not sound normal to me. This same Paul boats that his knowledge is all derived by "inspiration" obtained from a trance where there is not any collaboration for "two" or "three" witnesses which he already attests is the mark of truth. Here are his own words: "I conferred not with flesh and blood, neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me" (Gal. 1:16-17). Again, "It pleased God . . . to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen" (Gal. 1:15-16). Notice if you will Paul's comment that the Son was "revealed in me " and not "to me." This dear ones is the Gnostic Christ who lives with, the fruit from the Descent of the Soul into this physical realm we call mankind. Paul awakened to "the Christ Within" and His saving role in his life.
We cannot know, of course, what communications Paul had with God; but we can prove for certain that he had none with Jesus; for his conversion did not take place until after the death of this Jesus. How long after may be surmised from a statement of Paul's to the Corinthians: "He (Jesus) was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep" (I Cor. 15:5-6).
All these are cited as witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus, so they are witnesses of the resurrected Christ only. There is no mention of any one of them having known Jesus when still living. Now, whatever may be the value of their testimony in this connection, it is good evidence that Jesus had been dead at the time when there was a sect in existence of "above five hundred brethren" whom Paul had persecuted (Gal. 1:13); I which again is good evidence that Paul did not join them until years after, when "some had fallen asleep."
These believers evidently were among those who believed in the resurrection of the body, a doctrine which, according to Josephus, was held by some of the Jewish sects. Some of these evidently believed that Jesus had risen. Many scholars believer that the disappearance of his bodyremoved probably by his friends so as to protect it against desecration by his enemiesmay have given rise to this belief. The memory of Jesus was held in reverence by many of the Essenes, and particularly by the "Nazarenes," as the sect was called when Paul joined it. "For we have found this man (Paul) . . . a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes" (Acts 24: 5). But he was not known to them as "Christ," and they were not known as "Christians," until after Paul had become a convert and succeeded in convincing some of them of his theories, as is plainly set forth in Acts 6:25-26. These earliest follower of "the Christ" were called "Chrestians".
"Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Paul: and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church [of the Nazarenes], and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch" (Acts 11:25-26). The "disciples" were those of Paul, of course.
When, therefore, Paul claims to have received his apostleship directly from "Jesus Christ," it must be understood that he refers to the Christ of his vision and internal revelation, and not to a historical Jesus, whom he had never met.
So we see more clearly now how the Salvation Messages of the "Jewish Jesus" of the Synoptic Gospels which pointed mankind to the Law and the Commandments of God was later re-invented as an anti-Law Gospel when Rome altered the Salvation message of God and changed it from "deeds" to "creeds".
Let us continue our study in article 3.
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