Chapter 2 “Just” God?

Why do we demand justice? Why must we be “justified?” Why do we believe God is just?  Many would say the Bible says God is just and it therefore must be so.  But I cannot help but question whatever I find inconsistent with Truth no matter where I read it – be in on the internet, in the newspaper, or in the Bible. 

I love much written in the Bible.  Much of it is very beautiful and poetic, verses like Isaiah 11:6 And a little child shall lead them,” or from Revelation 22:5 “ They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light.” Truthful and beautiful passages such as these resonate as truth within.  One can feel their power because they are backed with Truth.  Words of revenge and getting even, punishing the wicked and rewarding the righteous have never resonated as truthful to me.  The real question one must ask when contemplating the interpretation of scripture and its truthfulness, and therefore Godliness, is to ask for what or whom does the passage serve?  Does it serve love or fear?  Does it serve God or self?  When you can answer that question with every single passage in the Bible, and indeed with anything you read from any source, you will know whether the words are God-centered or self-centered.  From what I have read, the Bible contains plenty examples of both.

What really is the concept of justice?  What is it based on?  If we answer this question, we can find out whether it truly serves God… Love, or self… ego.  Justice is the concept of “righting” “wrongs,” of making things “right,” of “justifying”…as if killing someone for killing another is somehow “justified” and “right.” Was it not said by Jesus to not answer evil for evil, to turn the other cheek?  If we truly bought into what Jesus was teaching, we would see that so-called “justice” is futile because it does not heal or redeem anything, and only answers evil for evil, as Christ commanded us not to do.  Justification, which comes from the word justice, is nothing more than a defensive response, which by definition is an act of violence.  So what is at the heart of this violence?  In order for justification to occur, there must be something to defend, to justify, which is always nothing more than the self. This fact makes the concept of justice itself un-Godly and unholy.  To justify is always an act of violence, whether we believe we are right or someone else is wrong.  Discussing truth is not violent, as Christ expressed when He was interrogated by the Pharisees and Pilate.  Christ did not defend himself.  He simply spoke the Truth.  Defending oneself through justification is different because it is not an expression of Truth, but a defense of self, and is always violence.  Justice and justification is a game – nothing more, nothing less.  It is a game played by the ego, the self, to defend itself.  Just because we project our egotistical selves onto God does not mean He needs justice as we believe we do.  God is not egotistical and selfish as human beings are. If He were, then justice would be necessary to Him. God is not just.  God is not unjust.  God transcends the entire dualistic game, as God is love.  God is ALL.  That is enough.

Of course, this viewpoint shatters the entire structure of traditional Christianity because at its foundation is the belief in a just God, who requires the sacrifice of His Son as a substitute in our place since only He, free of sin was an acceptable sacrifice to God – payment for our sins so we could be reconciled to Him. All my life I have never really understood this, and after praying on and contemplating this great mystery for about a year now, I finally better understand why I have not understood it.  It is because I have never comprehended why the True and Loving God would demand justice, since the demand for justice, the demand for blood, is a demand of the ego, not of Love.  As Jesus said in in Mark 12:33, “To love him with all your heart, and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”  So we see from this, God wants loving action…evidence of God’s love in our hearts, not mindless rituals and sacrifices.  The only sacrifice God demands is a true sacrifice – of our limiting beliefs, prejudices, and anything hindering our relationship with God, the Truth. If it is our hearts, and not sacrifices God desires, why then would God need anything more from us, be it a blood sacrifice of an animal or the Son of God?  If God believed the blood sacrifice of a son was necessary, why did he spare Issac from the hands of Abraham?

The God I know is not egotistical, but is Love itself.  Simply love.  If God demands justice, then his son Jesus would not have told us to “turn the other cheek,” but to strike back, as the law of the Old Testament states – “an eye for an eye.” I always thought such thinking only made both parties blind.  Truth never works to create more blindness.  Whenever I come across scripture such as the “eye for an eye” passage which contradicts that which I know to be true, I either have to conclude there was a mistranslation and therefore a misunderstanding, or it was written by the ego, the “devil” if you will.  When I come across such scriptures, I recognize them for what they are, then move on to relish those other scriptures which resonate in wisdom and Truth. 

I think a more honest and open view on the scriptures in the Bible is that all of it was written through human beings, with some of it inspired by God, and some of it, the devil, or the ego.  In the Bible I hear both the word of God and Satan.  As blasphemous as this may sound, I cannot deny my experience in the reading of scripture.  Even Jesus questioned scripture when he saw it was not truthful, as Jesus says in Matthew, 5:38-39 “You heard that it was said, ‘Eye for an eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.  If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”  We must read the scriptures critically and with a genuine heart for the truth to sort out the “wheat from the chaff,” the true from the untrue, the Godly from the un-Godly.  Jesus, in correcting non-truthful scripture teaches us a valuable lesson – to follow God, Truth – not words in a book, as everything which is filtered through the hands of humankind, including Biblical scripture is subject to potential error.  The “truth” test – of whether words serve love or fear, God or the devil, tell us everything we need to know on scripture’s accuracy or inaccuracy in its faithfulness to the Truth. 

The reason people rebel against God being only love, and not “just” or “unjust” is because we cannot fathom the incredible, unconditional Love of God.  We are so corrupted and have been so betrayed by millennia of perversion, chaos, and lies, we have forgotten who we Truly Are, and simply cannot accept the purity and Truth of God’s pristine, perfect, unconditional Love.  It is too simple for us, not “chaotic enough.”  We take God’s perfect Love, and corrupt it by adding our hatred, anger, fear, ignorance, and an endless array of depravity.  This is the essence of sin, and our addiction to it makes it seemingly impossible for us to embrace True, Unconditional Love.  This is the one true Sin Jesus warned us against – of not putting God, Love, Truth – first.  It seems True, Unconditional Love is not enough for most people.  We have to add our baggage to it.  Jesus knew this, which is why he asked his disciples to leave everything behind to follow God.  He knew as long as people were bogged down with the burdens of self and possession, “riches” of this world, they could not put God, Truth first in their lives.  The fact is, we are such an ego-centric society, worshipping ourselves, our money, our accomplishments, our possessions, even our beliefs, we have to “justify” when we or the things we attach ourselves to are hurt, damaged, cut away, or stolen.  We want to believe things will be “made right” when these things we are attached to are violated.  This is the demand for justice.  Since most people’s god is ourselves and our possessions, we need to create the concept of “justice” which is nothing more than a defense of ourselves. The only thing justice serves is self, proving it is not of God, but of ego.  God, Truth, need never be defended or justified, for God is All.  Only ego needs justification.   

The very fact we justify at all proves the true god of most people is self.   Most of us cannot see the subtle ways our selfishness corrupts virtually every facet of our lives.  Even our so-called “worship” of God is often egotistical and self-serving.  Instead of being open to honest, truthful investigations on God and scripture, we often make worship nothing more than a regurgitation of mindless words and “known concepts” of God, rigid and unalterable beliefs we have to defend instead of open questions to investigate, arrogantly assuming we know God, when the Truth is, God is always ultimately unknowable.   We can experience God’s essence, Love, but can never truly comprehend or understand God.  And how could we? The All of Life cannot ever be put “under our feet,” as that is what it means to “understand.”  God can never be put “under our feet,” can never be understood.  We must leave behind our illusions of “security” we believe exists within the “tried and true” conventionality of our beliefs, and question everything to seek the Truth.  We must step outside the known to even begin to approach the unknown, the mystery of God, of Truth.  That is the cost to seek the Truth – to leave all things behind which get in the way of our quest for Truth, as Jesus told those who would follow him.  Only those who would embrace the unorthodox, the unconventional and risk the insecurity of the unknown are in a position to witness to the Truth.  Jesus, when questioned by Pilate said that was his one purpose in life… as is the purpose of ALL our lives – to bear witness to the Truth.  Ultimately, this is ALL that matters, and is the True Meaning of Life.  

When looked at for what it is, demanding justice is really a breach of the First and Second Commandments to Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and strength, and to have no other gods but the True God, and not make idols for ourselves.  The reason it is a violation of the First and Second Commandments is because justice has no other function than to justify and protect the idol humanity worships – the false god of self.  As much as people want to believe God is just, that would require God to be egotistical and vengeful, as so-called “justice” is really nothing more than a softer word for what it really is – revenge. Revenge is answering pain with pain, which only creates more pain.  It accomplishes nothing, and redeems nothing.  Yet so many believe God is like this – “punishing the wicked.” If God were like that, it would be in direct contradiction to Jesus’ words to not answer evil for evil.  Why would the Son of God ask us to do what His Father in Heaven would not do for us? That would make both God and Jesus hypocritical, and simply makes no sense.  It also reduces God’s “love” to a purely human, conditional love that only loves when we please Him. That is not the True God.  That is an egotistical projection of our false god of self.

I have read and heard many arguments for a just God over and over. I have heard the argument that since God is Holy, He cannot abide with anything “imperfect,” and must therefore have those who are not holy abide in Hell, separated from Him while the rest go to Heaven.  First of all, since God is One, no part of God can ever be separated from God.  The One is forever and always one and can never be separated from itself.  It is an impossibility.  It is amazing to me how one can believe in a “just” God who would provide eternal punishment for infractions committed in a blink of an eye within the context of eternity. Would anyone really believe that to be just?  Does an eternal punishment really fit a crime committed within a fraction of time in the big picture, no matter how terrible, with no chance at redemption even after death, as if the God of infinite patience somehow runs out of patience, writing off “sinners” for all eternity?  This would mean even though God gave us eternal souls, we would have no chance to further grow in God even after death, that we have to “get it right” in this finite, miniscule existence on Earth or face the fires of Hell forever.  It seems perfectly logical God would have us continue to grow in Him for all eternity.  Why stop spiritual growth upon death after this short, little life on Earth, then pronounce judgement for what we did and failed to do? Not only would that be inefficient and wasteful, completely uncharacteristic of a perfect God, but it also makes no sense.   God is far better and much smarter than our limited, narrow conceptions of Him. 

It amazes me people seem to be ok with this very unjust notion of God.  That is a cruel, wicked, and merciless god, completely inconsistent with the merciful and forgiving way Christ taught us how to treat others.  So, if this punishing view of God is true, then either Christ was a liar, or God is a hypocrite speaking lies through his Son.  Neither of course is true, but what other conclusion can one come to when believing such a god who behaves this way?  If any human judge acted this way, we would decry how unjust they are, but it is ok for God to act this way?  It is clear the problem is not with Christ or God, but with ourselves and our narrow, limited view of God to justify our egos.

We all know the truth deep down because we are all from and of the truth.  We are all, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “children of the light.” We all know these notions of “eternal punishment” and “rewarding righteousness” are fictions serving nothing more than our egos and selfish desires to be “made right,” and to instill fear in others through coercion.  That is, I suspect, why I know of almost no practicing Christians in my generation, and why so many move away from faith.  Who wants to be part of a God who condemns and is egotistical?  We get enough of that from flawed human beings.  These lies about God sicken and madden me because they do more to push people away from God than move people towards God.  And for what? For a belief?  An ideology? A notion which is a lie? The church is dying because it is promoting lies about God, and no lie can ever stand, as only the Truth endures.  The reason no institution can embrace the Truth of God is because they are too busy defending their beliefs and doctrines about God…”justifying” their “truth,” and in so doing not witnessing to Love, to Truth, to the True God.  Defense of doctrine and ideology is not the same as speaking and serving Truth.  Defense and justification of anything, including our limiting beliefs about God is again, ultimately nothing more than a defense of self.  This makes the institution’s actions not about God and Truth, but about ego and self.  

The mechanism which holds the entire justification game in place is the concept of “reward and punishment.” I have always had a problem with this concept in terms of God, and learned my lessons well growing up Catholic.  I have always preferred the fact of action and consequence over reward and punishment.  While some think they are the same thing, and the terms are often used interchangeably, they are vastly different.  The difference between the two is simply this – one is centered on ego, while the other is centered on God, on Truth.  Reward and punishment is a concept built on an ego dolling out punishments or rewards based on whether or not the actions of another please or displease them.  It is completely ego-centric, is nothing more than a concept, and therefore not of God.  Action and consequence, often referred to as “karma” by many Eastern religions, is a natural law of Love, God. Action and consequence is not a concept based on the false ego like reward and punishment is.  Action and consequence is a fact.  Even if we cannot see how this natural law plays out within our limited vision on Earth, the law of karma is perfect and absolute, and the measure with which we give is the measure we get back, positive or negative.  We all reap what we sow, and this law does not require punishments and rewards measured against a standard of behavior.  Sin does indeed pay its wage, that is to say there are consequences in both embracing and not embracing God, Love.  This is vastly different from the traditional notions of “judgement” and “reward and punishment,” concepts about God created by the devil, the ego, to keep people in fear of God instead of embracing God’s essence… Love.

God is love, and all is love.  Love is like a fire.  And if you burn with love in your heart, you will not be consumed by the fire of love.  You will bask in God’s love, because you too are filled with that love, hence…you are in “heaven.” The consequence of burning with love in your heart is to be embraced by that same burning love, God.  Fire does not burn fire.  It burns as one flame.  This is natural law – a fact.  But if you are ice cold because you refuse love through free will, then you will experience the natural consequence of being hurt and burned in the fact of love’s eternal fire, as a vampire hates the light. We all know what happens to ice when confronted with fire.  So too will it be for those who resist love.  So, since love is the truth of all, going against that will cause pain, “hell” if you will by natural law – as the only law of life is Love – the only reality is Love, God.  Therefore the only way to heaven is to go with, not against, the only reality – Love. This is how I read the passage from John, 14:6“I am the way and the Truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  I do not read this to mean we must believe Jesus is our savior to get to heaven, but rather the only way to God is through God.  The only way to Truth is through Truth.  If read egotistically, it appears Jesus is telling us we must believe in him, the person Jesus instead of what he really meant – to follow God, as God, Jesus’ true self-proclaimed identity, is the only way to God.  Jesus himself even clarifies his identity with God several times within this same section of John, as in 14:7, “If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” And further from John 14:24, “These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.”  God is the way, the truth, and the life.  God is ALL – the path as well as the “destination.   

Traditional Christianity states only those who are “justified” by their belief Christ died for their sins and rose from the dead will be counted Holy and enter Heaven, while the rest will enter Hell. This reduces salvation to nothing more than a simple transaction, as if God can be bought… a “purchase” resulting from the shedding of innocent blood on behalf of the guilty.  If that were the case, then it seems to me this “just” God would be remarkably unjust. This theology simply makes no sense, and contradicts itself.   Isaiah 43:10-11 speaks to a very different view of salvation…“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen… Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.  I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior.”  So, we see God confirms He is the only salvation, and we are His witnesses, not just Jesus of Nazareth.  We are all called to be His witnesses, and salvation is not to be found through the intercession of anyone taking on human form, as God alone, Truth alone, is our Salvation.   Jesus himself had something to say about this in the Secret Book of James 7:2-3, “Damn you who require an intercessor.  Damn you who stand in need of grace.  Congratulations to those who have spoken out fearlessly, and have obtained grace for themselves.”  Of course, all of this scripture was left out of the New Testament because it completely dismantles the foundation of traditional Christianity’s belief system. 

We all have the potential to be Jesus Christ if we can realize the illusions with ego identity and instead identify with our divine Christ within us, as Jesus of Nazareth did.  Jesus of Nazareth did what we are all called to do, but to mistake Jesus of Nazareth, known as Jesus Christ to be God Himself is a misunderstanding, as God, the All, cannot be contained within any limited form no matter what it is.  Jesus himself clarifies the fact he is not God, in Mark 10:18, “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good – except God alone.”  Jesus knew the Truth of his identity within, being Of God, a reflection of God, but not God Himself, as a drop of water is not itself the ocean, but of the ocean, as a grain of sand is not the desert itself, but of the desert.  Jesus Christ is the perfect manifestation of the human flesh serving Truth, God, because He is not deluded into identifying with the ego, but knows who He is – the Truth of His identity…Love, God… the Christ.  

This sacrifice theology is also inconsistent with the parables Jesus told concerning salvation, not one of which illustrated traditional Christianity’s notion of salvation in which God sacrifices one for the many.  On the contrary, Jesus told parables about the opposite – leaving behind the many for the One.  And is that not the essence of salvation? To move from the many – the part, the divided, to the whole?… like the merchant who sells all he has to buy one pearl of great value, or another man who sells everything to buy a field in which a great treasure is hidden, and still another in which the shepherd leaves the ninety-nine sheep behind to find the one lost sheep.  In the salvation parables, such as the parable of the lost sheep and the prodigal son, God is not eager to damn the lost to Hell, but to bring them back to Himself.  As found in Matthew 18:12-14 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and look for the one that wandered off?  And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.  In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.”  Contrary to the popular view of only the “elect” being saved, this scripture implies not only Universal Salvation, but confirms the fact God Himself sees nobody as “dispensable” and unimportant.  God eagerly seeks to find all of us, to save all of us, not condemn us.  The story of the prodigal son tells of a lost man returning to his father, and is embraced and accepted by him with rejoicing as the shepherd rejoiced over finding the sheep who was lost.  It didn’t matter the son squandered his Father’s money and sinned against him.  What was more important to the father than anything was that his lost son returned to him, as the shepherd rejoiced in the one found sheep more than the 99 who did not stray. We see in these stories both God seeking us, like the shepherd seeking the lost sheep, and us seeking and returning to God, like the prodigal son who returns to the father. 

This is the patient, kind, and loving nature of God Jesus showed in the way he treated others, not the god who damns us to Hell for imperfect behavior on Earth.  When dealing with the woman caught in adultery, Jesus did not condemn her, but told her to go and sin no more.  Whenever Jesus was asked to heal someone, regardless of how strong or poor their faith was, he healed them. It is a striking fact from what we have in the Gospels, Jesus never condemned or punished anyone for what they did or failed to do, even if they choose not to follow him.  What a stark contrast to the messages we hear from traditional Christianity that those who do not proclaim Jesus as their savior will be condemned to Hell.  If Jesus really felt that way, why did he never condemn those who would not follow him?  I think Jesus’ actions tell us more about the Truth of God than theological theories and arguments of so-called “eternal punishment” formulated centuries after the fact. 

Jesus, through his life, death, and resurrection shows us how to follow the Way – how to walk in integrity with God in perfect obedience and complete surrender to God’s will, which is always Truth.  His death is not so much a sacrifice, as it is a symbol of what we too are called to do in our lives – to take up our crosses and be faithful to the Truth, even unto death, and to Love and forgive under all circumstances, no matter how dire and hopeless they may appear.  We are called to crucify that which keeps us from God, from the Truth, including our illusions, our fears, ourselves. I know of nowhere in history this amazing love of God and the path to Truth more beautifully illustrated than in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  That is what He accomplished on the cross, not by offering Himself as the only acceptable blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins to meet the demands of a just God, requiring only our belief in this to inherit Eternal Life. 

To think we just have to say we believe Jesus died for our sins, and that is enough is missing the point of Jesus’ message.  It is not enough to simply believe He made the necessary sacrifice for us, and now we need do nothing, yet this is what traditional Christianity teaches.   I could not disagree more.  It may be easier for us to say Jesus already did the perfect work of the Father for us, and now we need only believe, but the truth is ALL of us must take up our cross, as Jesus did, and follow God, Truth. Jesus himself said this.  From Luke, 9:23 “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”  Yet traditional Christianity does not really answer the question as to why we too must take up our cross as Jesus asks us because within the belief structure of traditional Christianity, Jesus did the work for us already.  If He died in our place, we are spared the “work” for our Salvation.  This is the largest contradiction between doctrine and Jesus’ actual teachings I have ever seen in traditional Christianity.  I have never been able to figure it out until now.  The only explanation which makes any sense to me is the fact Jesus never intended us to simply believe without doing any work ourselves for our salvation.  His own words as recorded in Matthew 7:21 offer confirmation of this… “Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Christ shows us the way to salvation, but we must walk the path, not merely call Him ‘Lord’ to be saved. 

The true way to Salvation lies in actually living the truth within our own hearts, always seeking God and His way, the “narrow way,” the way of Truth.   That is what it means to take up our own cross, as Jesus did.  Once again, when Jesus said to take up our cross and “follow me,” he was saying we must follow God, as Jesus never saw himself as separate and apart from God.  Christ’s life is a pattern for us to follow, to make real in our own lives, not to simply “believe” in what he did and not actively seek God ourselves.  Indeed, Christ calls us to be like Him, like God.  We cannot do that by simply “believing” and not taking the path of Truth as He did.  Salvation is not based on whether we say we believe Jesus died for our sins, or for that matter whether we believe anything at all, but whether or not our souls are burning with the same kind of fire and passion of love as it burns in the heart of Christ. That is what we must seek every moment of our lives to know True Salvation. 

Love has nothing to do with belief.  Love is action.  Belief is something to fight about, to create wars over, to justify.  Only the false, such as belief and self need be justified. Truth need never be justified.  Hosea 6:6 speaks to what truly pleases God, “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings.” When it is understood belief has nothing to do with love, and realize it is the condition of our hearts God cares most about, not what we believe, then it becomes much easier to be accepting and less judgmental of others who believe and think differently than we do, because when love is all that matters, there really is nothing to fight about and nothing to judge.  Belief, like justice, only serves our egos, and has nothing to do with love.

So we can see this so-called “judgement” is not that one is “cast into the fires of hell,” but rather one is consumed by the fire of love because they do not have love burning in their hearts, like the ice cube melted by the flame.  We cannot hide the Truth of our hearts, as they are revealed in the full Light of Truth in God’s burning fire of love.  If we are selfish and loveless, we will experience pain in God’s all-loving presence, and experience hell.  If we are loving, we will bask in the pure joy of God’s love, and experience heaven.  So, we see it is all about where we are within… about the state of our hearts through the choices we make moment to moment, not a “fixed place” we are “sent to” eternally after death because of what we did or failed to do within the standards of a just God in this short, finite life on Earth. 

The True Good News missing from traditional Christianity is the fact we can choose every moment to either move toward God and experience Heaven, or away from God and experience Hell.  This is the “inhale, exhale” of Life  There is no end to how far we can grow in God.  We were made for the Glory of God, not to be tested then sent to an eternal fate depending on what we believed, did or failed to do in this finite, short life on Earth.  As recorded in Isaiah 43:5-7, “Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.  I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’  Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth – everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”  We may move away, but can always return…always, just like the prodigal son.  That is the True Gospel, the Good News of Christ, not the “mixed news” of Traditional Christianity. 

The truth is, God’s love will cause some immense indescribable joy and for others, immense pain.  Heaven and Hell are not separate places, but symbols of different states of being within the same One Experience.  For some, the light is embracing and healing, for others, it is painful and unbearable.  The very same Love of God is experienced very differently by different people, like two people reading the same book and getting completely different interpretations of the same story.  Why are the interpretations different? Because of what they bring to the experience of reading it.  As Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke 11:34, “Your eye is the lamp of your body.  When your eyes are good, your whole body is also full of light.  But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.“  And from the Gospel of Thomas, verse 59, “Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see.”  So it is with our salvation…we must always seek God… to see Truth clearly through eyes which can look to the Living One so we would be right within our hearts… that we would live joyfully and not painfully within the only reality… the pure and True love of God…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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