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Difference Between a Christian and a Born Again Christian

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This article is about the Christian term. For other uses, see Born Once again.

Evangelical Christian term

Born once again, or to experience the new nativity, is a phrase, especially in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to 1's physical birth, being "born over again" is distinctly and separately caused by baptism in the Holy Spirit, information technology is not caused by baptism in water. It is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, and Pentecostal Churches along with all other evangelical Christian denominations. All of these Churches strongly believe Jesus' words in the Gospels: "You must be born again before yous can run into, or enter, the Kingdom of Heaven." Their doctrines also mandate that to be both "built-in again" and "saved", 1 must have a personal and intimate human relationship with Jesus Christ.[ane] [ii] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In contemporary Christian usage and apart from evangelicalism, the term is distinct from similar terms which are sometimes used in Christianity in reference to a person who is being or becoming a Christian. This usage of the term is usually linked to baptism with water and the related doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Individuals who profess to be "born again" (meaning in the "Holy Spirit") often state that they take a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ".[vii] [5] [half-dozen]

In improver to using this phrase with those who exercise non profess to be Christians, some Evangelical Christians use the phrase and evangelize those who vest to other Christian denominations or groups. This practice is based on the conventionalities that non-Evangelical Christians, fifty-fifty those Christians who are professed Christians, are not "born again" and do non accept a "personal human relationship with Jesus." They therefore believe that they should evangelize to not-Evangelical Christians in the same way that they would evangelize to people who do non profess the Christian faith.

The phrase "built-in over again" is besides used every bit an describing word to describe individual members of the movement who espouse this belief, and it is besides used as an adjective to draw the move itself ("born-again Christian" and the "born-once again motility").

Origin [edit]

Jesus and Nicodemus painting by Alexander Bida, 1874

The term is derived from an event in the Gospel of John in which the words of Jesus were not understood by a Jewish pharisee, Nicodemus.

Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell yous, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." "How can someone exist built-in when they are old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely they cannot enter a 2d time into their mother'southward womb to be built-in!" Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you lot, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit."

—Gospel of John, John chapter 3, verses 3–5, NIV[viii]

The Gospel of John was written in Koine Greek, and the original text is ambiguous which results in a double entendre that Nicodemus misunderstands. The word translated as again is ἄνωθεν (ánōtʰen), which could hateful either "over again", or "from in a higher place".[9] The double entendre is a effigy of speech that the gospel writer uses to create bewilderment or misunderstanding in the hearer; the misunderstanding is then clarified by either Jesus or the narrator. Nicodemus takes just the literal significant from Jesus'south statement, while Jesus clarifies that he ways more of a spiritual rebirth from above. English translations have to choice one sense of the phrase or another; the NIV, King James Version, and Revised Version employ "built-in again", while the New Revised Standard Version[10] and the New English Translation[11] prefer the "born from above" translation.[12] Most versions will annotation the alternative sense of the phrase anōthen in a footnote.

Edwyn Hoskyns argues that "built-in from to a higher place" is to be preferred as the fundamental meaning and he drew attention to phrases such as "birth of the Spirit",[13] "birth from God",[14] but maintains that this necessarily carries with it an emphasis upon the newness of the life as given by God himself.[15]

The terminal use of the phrase occurs in the Beginning Epistle of Peter, rendered in the King James Version as:

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned honey of the brethren, [run into that ye] love one another with a pure eye fervently: / Being born over again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for e'er.

—1 Peter 1:22-23[xvi]

Hither, the Greek word translated equally "born once more" is ἀναγεγεννημένοι ( anagegennēménoi ).[17]

Interpretations [edit]

The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation is interpreted as being rooted in "the seed of Abraham"; that is, physical lineage from Abraham. Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in fault—that every person must have ii births—natural birth of the physical body and another of the water and the spirit.[18] This soapbox with Nicodemus established the Christian conventionalities that all human beings—whether Jew or Gentile—must be "born again" of the spiritual seed of Christ. The Apostle Peter further reinforced this understanding in 1 Peter one:23.[xix] [17] The Catholic Encyclopedia states that "[a] controversy existed in the primitive church building over the interpretation of the expression the seed of Abraham. It is [the Campaigner Paul's] didactics in one instance that all who are Christ'south past faith are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise. He is concerned, however, with the fact that the promise is not beingness fulfilled to the seed of Abraham (referring to the Jews)."[20]

Charles Hodge writes that "The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture" with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new creation, renewing of the mind, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to low-cal.[21]

Jesus used the "birth" analogy in tracing spiritual newness of life to a divine start. Contemporary Christian theologians have provided explanations for "born from above" being a more accurate translation of the original Greek word transliterated anōthen. [22] Theologian Frank Stagg cites two reasons why the newer translation is meaning:

  1. The emphasis "from above" (implying "from Heaven") calls attending to the source of the "newness of life". Stagg writes that the word "once again" does not include the source of the new kind of commencement;
  2. More than than personal improvement is needed. "a new destiny requires a new origin, and the new origin must be from God."[23]

An early example of the term in its more modern utilise appears in the sermons of John Wesley. In the sermon entitled A New Nascence he writes, "none can be holy unless he be built-in again", and "except he be born over again, none tin be happy fifty-fifty in this world. For ... a homo should non be happy who is non holy." As well, "I say, [a man] may be born over again and so go an heir of salvation." Wesley also states infants who are baptized are built-in again, only for adults it is different:

our church supposes, that all who are baptized in their infancy, are at the same fourth dimension born over again. ... But ... it is sure all of riper years, who are baptized, are non at the same fourth dimension born again.[24]

A Unitarian work called The Gospel Anchor noted in the 1830s that the phrase was not mentioned by the other Evangelists, nor by the Apostles except Peter. "Information technology was non regarded by any of the Evangelists but John of sufficient importance to record." Information technology adds that without John, "we should hardly have known that it was necessary for one to exist born over again." This suggests that "the text and context was meant to utilise to Nicodemus particularly, and not to the world."[25]

Historicity [edit]

Scholars of historical Jesus, that is, attempting to ascertain how closely the stories of Jesus match the historical events they are based on, by and large treat Jesus'southward chat with Nicodemus in John 3 with skepticism. It details what is presumably a private conversation betwixt Jesus and Nicodemus, with none of the disciples seemingly attending, making it unclear how a record of this conversation was acquired. In improver, the conversation is recorded in no other ancient Christian source other than John and works based on John.[26] According to Bart Ehrman, the larger issue is that the same trouble English translations of the Bible have with the Greek ἄνωθεν (anōthen) is a problem in the Aramaic language too: in that location is no unmarried word in Aramaic that ways both "again" and "from above", nonetheless the conversation rests on Nicodemus making this misunderstanding.[27] Every bit the conversation was between two Jews in Jerusalem, where Aramaic was the native language, there is no reason to think that they'd have spoken in Greek.[26] This implies that even if based on a real conversation, the author of John heavily modified information technology to include Greek wordplay and idiom.[26]

Denominational positions [edit]

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: "The GSS ... has asked a born-once more question on three occasions ... 'Would y'all say you have been 'born again' or have had a 'built-in-over again' experience?" The Handbook says that "Evangelical, blackness, and Latino Protestants tend to respond similarly, with almost two-thirds of each group answering in the affirmative. In contrast, only near one third of mainline Protestants and one 6th of Catholics (Anglo and Latino) claim a born-again experience." Yet, the handbook suggests that "born-once again questions are poor measures fifty-fifty for capturing evangelical respondents. ... it is likely that people who study a born-again experience also merits it every bit an identity."[28]

Catholicism [edit]

Historically, the classic text from John 3 was consistently interpreted by the early on church fathers as a reference to baptism.[29] Modernistic Cosmic interpreters accept noted that the phrase 'built-in from higher up' or 'born over again'[30] is antiseptic as 'being born of water and Spirit'.[31]

Catholic commentator John F. McHugh notes, "Rebirth, and the commencement of this new life, are said to come about ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, of h2o and spirit. This phrase (without the article) refers to a rebirth which the early on Church regarded every bit taking place through baptism."[32]

The Canon of the Catholic Church building (CCC) notes that the essential elements of Christian initiation are: "proclamation of the Give-and-take, acceptance of the Gospel entailing conversion, profession of faith, Baptism itself, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and admission to Eucharistic communion."[33] Baptism gives the person the grace of forgiveness for all prior sins; it makes the newly baptized person a new animate being and an adopted son of God;[34] it incorporates them into the Body of Christ[35] and creates a sacramental bail of unity leaving an indelible mark on our souls.[36] "Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ. Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark (grapheme) of his belonging to Christ. No sin tin erase this marker, fifty-fifty if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation. Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated."[37] The Holy Spirit is involved with each aspect of the motility of grace. "The first work of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion. ... Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high."[38]

The Catholic Church likewise teaches that nether special circumstances the demand for water baptism tin exist superseded past the Holy Spirit in a 'baptism of want', such every bit when catechumens dice or are martyred prior to receiving baptism.[39]

Pope John Paul Two wrote in Catechesi Tradendae about "the trouble of children baptized in infancy [who] come up for catechesis in the parish without receiving whatsoever other initiation into the religion and still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ.".[twoscore] He noted that "beingness a Christian means saying 'yes' to Jesus Christ, but allow the states remember that this 'yes' has two levels: Information technology consists of surrendering to the word of God and relying on it, but information technology also means, at a later stage, endeavoring to know amend—and better the profound meaning of this discussion."[41]

The mod expression existence "born once again" is really almost the concept of "conversion".

The National Directory of Catechesis (published by the United States Conference of Cosmic Bishops, USCCB) defines conversion as, "the credence of a personal relationship with Christ, a sincere adherence to him, and a willingness to adjust i's life to his."[42] To put it more merely "Conversion to Christ involves making a genuine commitment to him and a personal determination to follow him every bit his disciple."[42]

Echoing the writings of Pope John Paul Two, the National Directory of Catechesis describes a new intervention required by our modern earth called the "New Evangelization". The New Evangelization is directed to the Church herself, to the baptized who were never effectively evangelized before, to those who have never fabricated a personal delivery to Christ and the Gospel, to those formed past the values of the secular culture, to those who take lost a sense of organized religion, and to those who are alienated.[43]

Declan O'Sullivan, co-founder of the Catholic Men'due south Fellowship and knight of the Sovereign Armed forces Order of Malta, wrote that the "New Evangelization emphasizes the personal meet with Jesus Christ equally a pre-status for spreading the gospel. The built-in-again experience is not merely an emotional, mystical high; the really of import matter is what happened in the convert'southward life afterward the moment or period of radical change."[44]

Lutheranism [edit]

The Lutheran Church holds that "we are cleansed of our sins and born again and renewed in Holy Baptism past the Holy Ghost. But she too teaches that whoever is baptized must, through daily contrition and repentance, drown The Old Adam then that daily a new human being come forth and arise who walks before God in righteousness and purity forever. She teaches that whoever lives in sins after his baptism has again lost the grace of baptism."[45]

Moravianism [edit]

With regard to the New Birth, the Moravian Church holds that a personal conversion to Christianity is a joyful experience, in which the individual "accepts Christ as Lord" after which organized religion "daily grows inside the person."[46] For Moravians, "Christ lived as a human being considering he wanted to provide a design for future generations" and "a converted person could endeavour to live in his image and daily become more like Jesus."[46] Every bit such, "heart religion" characterizes Moravian Christianity.[46] The Moravian Church has historically emphasized evangelism, especially missionary work, to spread the religion.[47]

Anglicanism [edit]

The phrase born again is mentioned in the 39 Manufactures of the Anglican Church in commodity XV, entitled "Of Christ solitary without Sin". In part, it reads: "sin, equally S. John saith, was not in Him. Merely all we the balance, although baptized and built-in over again in Christ, yet offend in many things: and if we say we take no sin, nosotros deceive ourselves, and the truth is non in us."[48]

Although the phrase "baptized and born again in Christ" occurs in Commodity Xv, the reference is clearly to the scripture passage in John 3:3.[49]

Reformed [edit]

In Reformed theology, Holy Baptism is the sign and the seal of one's regeneration, which is of comfort to the believer.[50] The time of one's regeneration, yet, is a mystery to oneself co-ordinate to the Canons of Dort.[fifty]

According to the Reformed churches being born once again refers to "the inward working of the Spirit which induces the sinner to answer to the effectual call". According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q 88, "the outward and ordinary ways whereby Christ communicateth to u.s. the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the give-and-take, sacraments, and prayer; all of which are fabricated effectual to the elect for salvation."[51] Effectual calling is "the work of God'south Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable the states to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to usa in the gospel."[52] [53]

In Reformed theology, "regeneration precedes faith."[54] Samuel Storms writes that, "Calvinists insist that the sole cause of regeneration or beingness built-in again is the volition of God. God first sovereignly and efficaciously regenerates, and only in effect of that practice nosotros act. Therefore, the individual is passive in regeneration, neither preparing himself nor making himself receptive to what God will do. Regeneration is a modify wrought in u.s. by God, not an autonomous deed performed by u.s.a. for ourselves."[55]

Quakerism [edit]

The Central Yearly Coming together of Friends, a Holiness Quaker denomination, teaches that regeneration is the "divine work of initial conservancy (Tit. three:5), or conversion, which involves the accompanying works of justification (Rom. 5:18) and adoption (Rom. 8:fifteen, sixteen)."[iii] In regeneration, which occurs in the New Birth], there is a "transformation in the heart of the believer wherein he finds himself a new creation in Christ (Ii Cor. 5:17; Col. one:27)."[3]

Post-obit the New Birth, George Flim-flam taught the possibility of "holiness of heart and life through the instantaneous baptism with the Holy Spirit subsequent to the new birth" (cf. Christian perfection).[56]

Methodism [edit]

In Methodism, the "new nativity is necessary for salvation because it marks the movement toward holiness. That comes with faith."[1] John Wesley, held that the New Nascency "is that corking change which God works in the soul when he brings information technology into life, when he raises it from the death of sin to the life of righteousness."[58] [ane] In the life of a Christian, the new birth is considered the kickoff work of grace.[59] In keeping with Wesleyan-Arminian covenant theology, the Articles of Faith, in Article XVII—Of Baptism, land that baptism is a "sign of regeneration or the new birth."[60] The Methodist Visitor in describing this doctrine, admonishes individuals: "'Ye must exist born again.' Yield to God that He may perform this work in and for yous. Admit Him to your heart. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt exist saved.'"[61] [62] Methodist theology teaches that the New Nascency contains two phases that occur together, justification and regeneration:[63]

Though these two phases of the new nascency occur simultaneously, they are, in fact, 2 dissever and distinct acts. Justification is that gracious and judicial human action of God whereby a soul is granted complete absolution from all guilt and a total release from the punishment of sin (Romans three:23-25). This act of divine grace is wrought by religion in the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). Regeneration is the impartation of divine life which is manifested in that radical change in the moral character of man, from the beloved and life of sin to the love of God and the life of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:17; ane Peter i:23). ―Principles of Faith, Emmanuel Association of Churches[63]

Baptists [edit]

Baptists teach that a "person is built-in again when he/she repents of his/her sins and asks Jesus to forgive him/her and trust Jesus to serve him/her."[64] Those who have been built-in once again, according to Baptist teaching, know that they are "a child of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses to them that they are" (cf. assurance).[64]

Pentecostalism [edit]

Pentecost by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860.

Holiness Pentecostals historically teach the new nativity (showtime work of grace), unabridged sanctification (second work of grace) and baptism with the Holy Spirit, every bit evidenced past glossolalia, as the third piece of work of grace.[65] [66] The New Birth, according to Pentecostal teaching, imparts "spiritual life".[4]

Jehovah'due south Witnesses [edit]

Jehovah'southward Witnesses believe that individuals do not have the power to choose to be born once again, but that God calls and selects his followers "from above".[67] Only those belonging to the "144,000" are considered to exist born again.[68] [69]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-24-hour interval Saints [edit]

The Book of Mormon emphasizes the need for everyone to be reborn of God.[70]

Disagreements between denominations [edit]

The term "born once again" is used by several Christian denominations, but there are disagreements on what the term ways, and whether members of other denominations are justified in claiming to exist born-over again Christians.

Cosmic Answers says:

Catholics should ask [Evangelical] Protestants, "Are you born once more—the way the Bible understands that concept?" If the Evangelical has non been properly water baptized, he has not been born once again "the Bible way," regardless of what he may call back.[71]

On the other hand, an Evangelical site argues:

Another of many examples is the Catholic who claims he also is "born over again." ... Even so, what the committed Catholic means is that he received his spiritual birth when he was baptized—either as an babe or when as an adult he converted to Catholicism. That's not what Jesus meant when He told Nicodemus he "must be born again."[72] The deliberate adoption of biblical terms which accept different meanings for Catholics has go an effective tool in Rome'southward ecumenical agenda.[73]

The Reformed view of regeneration may be set autonomously from other outlooks in at least two ways.

Showtime, classical Roman Catholicism teaches that regeneration occurs at baptism, a view known every bit baptismal regeneration. Reformed theology has insisted that regeneration may take place at whatever time in a person's life, even in the womb. It is not somehow the automated result of baptism. 2nd, it is common for many other evangelical branches of the church to speak of repentance and faith leading to regeneration (i.e., people are born again only after they do saving organized religion). By contrast, Reformed theology teaches that original sin and total depravity deprive all people of the moral power and will to exercise saving faith. ... Regeneration is entirely the work of God the Holy Spirit - we can do zero on our own to obtain information technology. God alone raises the elect from spiritual decease to new life in Christ.[74] [75]

History and usage [edit]

Historically, Christianity has used various metaphors to describe its rite of initiation, that is, spiritual regeneration via the sacrament of baptism past the power of the water and the spirit. This remains the mutual understanding in virtually of Christendom, held, for example, in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism,[45] Anglicanism,[76] and in other historic branches of Protestantism. Still, sometime after the Reformation, Evangelicalism attributed greater significance to the expression born once more [77] as an experience of religious conversion,[78] symbolized by deep-h2o baptism, and rooted in a delivery to 1'south own personal religion in Jesus Christ for salvation. This same conventionalities is, historically, too an integral part of Methodist doctrine,[79] [lxxx] and is connected with the doctrine of Justification.[81]

According to Encyclopædia Britannica:

'Rebirth' has often been identified with a definite, temporally datable course of 'conversion'. ... With the voluntaristic type, rebirth is expressed in a new alignment of the will, in the liberation of new capabilities and powers that were hitherto undeveloped in the person concerned. With the intellectual type, information technology leads to an activation of the capabilities for agreement, to the quantum of a "vision". With others it leads to the discovery of an unexpected dazzler in the lodge of nature or to the discovery of the mysterious meaning of history. With still others it leads to a new vision of the moral life and its orders, to a selfless realization of beloved of neighbor. ... each person affected perceives his life in Christ at any given time as "newness of life."[82]

Co-ordinate to J. Gordon Melton:

Built-in again is a phrase used by many Protestants to describe the phenomenon of gaining faith in Jesus Christ. It is an experience when everything they take been taught every bit Christians becomes real, and they develop a direct and personal human relationship with God.[83]

According to Andrew Purves and Charles Partee:

Sometimes the phrase seems to be judgmental, making a distinction between genuine and nominal Christians. Sometimes ... descriptive, like the distinction between liberal and conservative Christians. Occasionally, the phrase seems historic, like the division betwixt Catholic and Protestant Christians. ... [the term] usually includes the notion of homo choice in salvation and excludes a view of divine election by grace alone.[84]

The term built-in again has become widely associated with the evangelical Christian renewal since the belatedly 1960s, starting time in the United States and then around the world. Associated perchance initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion feel, accepting Jesus Christ as lord and savior in guild to be saved from hell and given eternal life with God in sky, and was increasingly used as a term to place devout believers.[12] By the mid-1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media equally part of the born again movement.

In 1976, Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson's volume Built-in Once again gained international find. Time magazine named him "One of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America."[85] The term was sufficiently prevalent so that during the year's presidential campaign, Democratic political party nominee Jimmy Carter described himself as "born again" in the start Playboy mag interview of an American presidential candidate.

Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the "born again" identity as a cultural construct in the US. He writes that his spiritual experience followed considerable struggle and hesitancy to take a "personal see with God." He recalls:

while I sat alone staring at the sea I love, words I had not been certain I could sympathize or say cruel from my lips: "Lord Jesus, I believe in You. I take You. Delight come into my life. I commit it to Y'all." With these few words...came a sureness of listen that matched the depth of feeling in my centre. In that location came something more: forcefulness and quiet, a wonderful new assurance about life, a fresh perception of myself in the world effectually me.[86]

Jimmy Carter was the first President of the United States to publicly declare that he was born-again, in 1976.[87] By the 1980 campaign, all three major candidates stated that they had been born once again.[88]

Sider and Knippers[89] state that "Ronald Reagan's election that fall [was] aided by the votes of 61% of 'born-again' white Protestants."

The Gallup Organization reported that "In 2003, 42% of U.S. adults said they were built-in-again or evangelical; the 2004 pct is 41%" and that, "Black Americans are far more probable to identify themselves as born-once again or evangelical, with 63% of blacks saying they are born-again, compared with 39% of white Americans. Republicans are far more likely to say they are born-once again (52%) than Democrats (36%) or independents (32%)."[90]

The Oxford Handbook of Organized religion and American Politics, referring to several studies, reports "that 'born-again' identification is associated with lower support for government anti-poverty programs." It besides notes that "cocky-reported born-again" Christianity, "strongly shapes attitudes towards economic policy."[91]

Names which accept been inspired by the term [edit]

The thought of "rebirth in Christ" has inspired[92] some common European forenames: French René/Renée, Dutch Renaat/Renate, Italian, Castilian, Portuguese and Croatian Renato/Renata, Latin Renatus/Renata, all of which hateful "reborn", "born again".[93]

Meet also [edit]

  • Chantry phone call – Tradition in some Christian churches
  • Baptismal regeneration – Doctrines held by major Christian denomination
  • Born-again virgin – Person who commits to forbearance after having had sexual intercourse
  • Kid dedication – Act of consecration of children
  • Jesus movement – Former evangelical Christian movement
  • Dvija – Twice-built-in condition of Hindu male after Upanayana
  • Evangelism – Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Monergism – View within Christian theology
  • Sinner'south prayer – Evangelical Christian term referring to any prayer of repentance

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  • The New Birth, John Wesley, sermon No. 45. Wesley's teaching on beingness born once more, and argument that it is fundamental to Christianity.

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