# Best of BAM: The Importance of Essential Christian Doctrine, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 2 May 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares on the importance of essential Christian doctrine, which sets the line of demarcation between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the cults. Hank also answers the following questions: Why is giving a blessing in the morning considered a curse in Proverbs 27:14? Pam - Due West, SC (3:01) I divorced while I was an unbeliever, under illegitimate grounds. How long must I stay open to reconciliation? Robert - Sacramento, CA (5:56) What does it mean to be created “in the image of God?” Joe - Omaha, NE (15:11) Beatitude in Revelation 22:14. Is it supposed to read blessed are those who do the commandments or those who wash their robes? Herb - AB (18:58) People say that the King James Bible is the fully inspired Word of God. Is that true? What is the best Bible translation to read? Herb - AB (20:27) Where does the Bible say that those who die without Christ have eternal condemnation? Tom - Newark, DE (24:13)

## Transcript

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[0:43] Speaker 1: answer Man broadcast. Here's your host, Hank Canagraph.
[0:47] Speaker 2: Favorite March Brandy is always great to be in studio
[0:49] Speaker 2: as we answer your questions throughout the United States and Canada.
[0:53] Speaker 2: The importance of a central Christian doctrine can hardly be overstated.
[0:57] Speaker 2: To begin with, these are the very doctrines that form
[1:02] Speaker 2: the line of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and
[1:06] Speaker 2: the Kingdom of the Cults. A central Christian doctrine is
[1:11] Speaker 2: the north star by which the course of Christianity is set.
[1:18] Speaker 2: As the north star is an unchanging reference point, a
[1:22] Speaker 2: point by which sailors safely guided their ships. So a
[1:27] Speaker 2: central Christian doctrine has safely guided the Church through the
[1:31] Speaker 2: doctrinal storms that have sought to sink it as central
[1:36] Speaker 2: Christian doctrine is the foundation on which the Gospel of
[1:41] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ rests, from his deity to the es catological
[1:46] Speaker 2: certainty that He will appear again a second time to
[1:50] Speaker 2: judge the living and the dead. Assential Christian doctrine is
[1:54] Speaker 2: foundational to the Gospel. All other religious constructs they compromise,
[2:01] Speaker 2: they confuse, they contradict asential Christian doctrine. Muslims, for example,
[2:07] Speaker 2: dogmatically denounce the doctrine of Christ's unique deity as the
[2:12] Speaker 2: unforgivable sin of shirk. They readily affirm the sinlessness of Christ,
[2:18] Speaker 2: but adamantly deny his sacrifice on the cross as well
[2:23] Speaker 2: as his subsequent resurrection as the only hope of salvation.
[2:30] Speaker 2: In order to internalize what you believe, in other words,
[2:34] Speaker 2: essential Christian doctrine the main and plain things of the Bible,
[2:40] Speaker 2: I've organized them around a memorable acronym. It is the
[2:44] Speaker 2: acronym doctrine. To master why you believe what you believe.
[2:50] Speaker 2: I've organized the supporting evidence into easy to assimilate points.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Check it out on the web at equip dot org.
[3:01] Speaker 2: Let's go right to the phone lines. A lot of
[3:02] Speaker 2: you hanging on first up as Pam. She's listening on
[3:05] Speaker 2: the web in due west, South Carolina.
[3:08] Speaker 3: Hi, Pam, Hello, Hank. I'm so glad to talk to you.
[3:13] Speaker 4: Uh.
[3:14] Speaker 3: I just discovered your ministry about four or five months ago,
[3:17] Speaker 3: and I have learned so much. But I just have
[3:19] Speaker 3: become a Christian, I guess maybe two years ago.
[3:21] Speaker 4: Oh.
[3:22] Speaker 3: Well, and you have really clear some things up. But
[3:26] Speaker 3: one question on Proverbs twenty seven, verse fourteen, where it
[3:30] Speaker 3: says a blessing given loudly and cheerfully in the morning,
[3:35] Speaker 3: why is that considered a curse? I don't understand that verse.
[3:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that proverbs are truisms, they're generally true. And
[3:46] Speaker 2: what is being communicated in Proverbs at this point by
[3:51] Speaker 2: Solomon is that if a man loudly and the emphasis
[3:55] Speaker 2: there is on the word loudly, blesses his neighbor early
[3:58] Speaker 2: in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
[4:02] Speaker 2: Well why would that be? Well? Think about it. Timing,
[4:05] Speaker 2: we might say, is everything the wrong time for a
[4:11] Speaker 2: wonderful action is still a woeful thing. You don't want
[4:18] Speaker 2: to curse someone loudly, nor do you want to bless
[4:22] Speaker 2: someone loudly, particularly if it's.
[4:25] Speaker 3: Early in the morning blessing as a curse.
[4:28] Speaker 2: Right, No, No, I'm just saying either case, if you're
[4:31] Speaker 2: doing something loudly in the morning, it's going to be
[4:34] Speaker 2: taken as a curse. And I think this is related
[4:37] Speaker 2: to what you read in Ecclesiastes. There's a time for everything,
[4:42] Speaker 2: a season for every activity under heaven, a time to
[4:46] Speaker 2: be born, a time to die, a time to plant,
[4:50] Speaker 2: a time to uproot, a time to kill, a time
[4:52] Speaker 2: to steal, a time to tear down, a time to build,
[4:55] Speaker 2: a time to weep, a time to laugh. There's a
[4:58] Speaker 2: time for everything. All of that, of course, has to
[5:01] Speaker 2: be contextualized. You can, for example, lie, but only if
[5:05] Speaker 2: it's a greater good. In other words, rayhab purpose to
[5:09] Speaker 2: lie to save the Israelites from certain destruction. So the
[5:14] Speaker 2: greater good was the saving of life. So there's a
[5:18] Speaker 2: time for everything. If you do something at the wrong time,
[5:21] Speaker 2: it still would be considered a curse. That's the point.
[5:24] Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I just didn't understand that, But you've
[5:27] Speaker 3: cleared it up for me, and may God continue blessing you.
[5:31] Speaker 3: I really appreciate and love listening to you.
[5:34] Speaker 2: Thank you, Pam, appreciate your call and I was going
[5:37] Speaker 2: to say, what's probably going on as well? Is there
[5:39] Speaker 2: some reason to suspect the motive here? It's probably a hypocrite,
[5:43] Speaker 2: someone going to great lengths to create the impression of
[5:48] Speaker 2: friendship when in reality there's no real friendship intended. There's
[5:53] Speaker 2: a lot we can read into the possible meaning of
[5:55] Speaker 2: that proverb. Want to go back to the phone lines now,
[5:57] Speaker 2: talk to Robert in sacrament Acout, California.
[6:00] Speaker 5: Hi, Robert, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Call revolves
[6:06] Speaker 5: around the topics of a divorce and remarriage. Yeah, so
[6:11] Speaker 5: about five years ago, while I was still an unbeliever,
[6:15] Speaker 5: I obtained a divorce, and from what I understand from
[6:19] Speaker 5: talking to my pastor, that was under illegitimate grounds for divorce.
[6:24] Speaker 5: I mean there was any sexual reasons. We just decided
[6:27] Speaker 5: we're no longer compatible and want to work on it.
[6:31] Speaker 5: So we decided to it divorced. And then we were
[6:36] Speaker 5: divorced about several months later. You know, we talked a
[6:41] Speaker 5: little bit of or I broached the subject of reconciling.
[6:45] Speaker 5: She wasn't interested, and you know, about a year after that,
[6:49] Speaker 5: and so I became a believer. At point, what obligations
[6:55] Speaker 5: do I have to her if any in terms of
[6:58] Speaker 5: like trying to reconcile.
[7:00] Speaker 2: Marriage, is she remarried, she is.
[7:03] Speaker 5: Not remarried, and she is still an unbeliever.
[7:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as long as the door to reconciliation
[7:10] Speaker 2: remains open, I would pursue reconciliation. I would do it
[7:15] Speaker 2: in a way that's glorifying to God, because as a
[7:18] Speaker 2: new believer, you are a new creation in Christ. In fact,
[7:23] Speaker 2: as a new believer, when you're baptized, you're symbolizing that
[7:27] Speaker 2: you were buried to your old life, raised in newness
[7:29] Speaker 2: of life through His resurrection power. And that needs to
[7:32] Speaker 2: be manifest to your ex wife that there has been
[7:37] Speaker 2: a change in you, a change that is not just
[7:41] Speaker 2: articulated by the words you speak, but a change that
[7:45] Speaker 2: is demonstrated by both your life and your love. So again,
[7:50] Speaker 2: I would pursue reconciliation. Obviously, you cannot force it. You
[7:54] Speaker 2: can't force anyone else to reconcile. Reconciliation at the end
[7:58] Speaker 2: of the day, is always going to be a two stree.
[8:00] Speaker 2: It takes someone that is willing to forgive and someone
[8:03] Speaker 2: that is wanting to be forgiven. If those two aspects
[8:06] Speaker 2: aren't their reconciliation doesn't take place. But I think that
[8:10] Speaker 2: as long as the door to reconciliation remains open, I
[8:14] Speaker 2: would pursue that. Once that door is closed, if it's
[8:19] Speaker 2: closed through death or remarriage, well then you can unscramble
[8:24] Speaker 2: the egg. But right now there's still a possibility, and
[8:27] Speaker 2: I think as a Christian, you want to pursue that possibility.
[8:31] Speaker 5: Okay, from my understanding, it's contrary to marry a non believer.
[8:37] Speaker 5: Now that I am a believer, How do I make
[8:41] Speaker 5: sense of that?
[8:42] Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I mean I think you could use that
[8:45] Speaker 2: as a sort of an obstacle or an excuse for
[8:49] Speaker 2: failing to reconcile. I don't think at this point, having
[8:53] Speaker 2: been married to your ex wife, that I would look
[8:56] Speaker 2: at that as a significant eyes obstacle. I would more
[9:01] Speaker 2: look at the possibility of having her heart changed, because look,
[9:06] Speaker 2: if her heart isn't changed, there isn't going to be
[9:08] Speaker 2: reconciliation anyway, and likely only reconciliation will take place if
[9:15] Speaker 2: she becomes yoked to Christ, and as a result of
[9:19] Speaker 2: that sees the possibility of being reyoked to you.
[9:23] Speaker 5: Okay, So if I now it sounds like the ball
[9:27] Speaker 5: is in my court to pursue reconciliation. Is there any
[9:31] Speaker 5: sort of like time frame I need to give her,
[9:33] Speaker 5: like maybe write her a letter, give her some time
[9:36] Speaker 5: to think about it. And after Safety responds and I
[9:40] Speaker 5: understand I should work towards reconciliation. However, she says, you know,
[9:45] Speaker 5: I'm not interested. It's over between us. What would my
[9:49] Speaker 5: stance be at that point, Well, I think.
[9:50] Speaker 2: This is a fluid situation. There's going to be all
[9:53] Speaker 2: kinds of converging factors, and as a result of that,
[9:55] Speaker 2: I think it's ill advised for me to give you
[9:58] Speaker 2: specific de detailed advice. If she does this, I'll do this.
[10:03] Speaker 2: If she does this, I'll do that. I think that
[10:05] Speaker 2: would be a mistake on my part. I think what
[10:08] Speaker 2: is necessary is someone who can deal with you specifically
[10:14] Speaker 2: in a very fluid situation, which is to say, within
[10:17] Speaker 2: the context of a church. A pastor or gifted Christian
[10:23] Speaker 2: laymen who are expert at dealing in these kinds of
[10:28] Speaker 2: circumstances would be a great deal of help to you.
[10:31] Speaker 2: It's analogous to having boots on the ground, people that
[10:34] Speaker 2: love you, that are a support network that can help
[10:37] Speaker 2: you through a very difficult situation. I can give you
[10:40] Speaker 2: general principles, but getting into the specificity I think would
[10:43] Speaker 2: be dangerous because again it's a fluid situation, which requires
[10:48] Speaker 2: counselors that are with you in that fluid situation.
[10:51] Speaker 6: I understead thank.
[10:53] Speaker 5: You so much for your time and your help.
[10:54] Speaker 7: Appreciate it.
[10:55] Speaker 2: God with you, you got it. Thank you so much
[10:57] Speaker 2: for your call as well. We'll be right back.
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[15:10] Speaker 2: I want to go back to the phone lines and
[15:12] Speaker 2: talk to Joe. He's listening in all Mohamed Nebraska.
[15:15] Speaker 6: Hi, Joe, hik. I got kind of a question that
[15:20] Speaker 6: I've struggled with. Do you believe that all humans are
[15:26] Speaker 6: created in the image of God? And if you do,
[15:29] Speaker 6: what does that look like?
[15:32] Speaker 2: What does that mean? Well, we're created in the image
[15:35] Speaker 2: of God. We're not reproductions of God, of course, we're
[15:37] Speaker 2: reflections of God. And what that means is that we
[15:40] Speaker 2: reflect God's moral attributes. So we are not omniscient, we
[15:46] Speaker 2: are not omnipotent, but we do reflect moral attributes like
[15:53] Speaker 2: love and volition. Those are how we reflect God. And
[15:58] Speaker 2: that is what it means to be created in the
[16:01] Speaker 2: image of God.
[16:02] Speaker 6: So would you consider that to be the deepest thing
[16:06] Speaker 6: about us, the core of who we are as human beings?
[16:10] Speaker 2: For sure? Yes, because we are created in the image
[16:13] Speaker 2: of God. And as those who are created in the
[16:18] Speaker 2: image of God, we have the capacity to enjoy fellowship
[16:21] Speaker 2: with God and to develop personal relationships with one another.
[16:25] Speaker 2: These moral attributes also equip us to carry out God's
[16:28] Speaker 2: will that we tend and rule creation in such a
[16:34] Speaker 2: way that creation comes to realize its full potential. The
[16:39] Speaker 2: image of God in humanity comprises qualities of God which
[16:45] Speaker 2: reflected in humankind make worship and personal interaction and even
[16:51] Speaker 2: work possible in the sense as described and prescribed by God.
[16:57] Speaker 6: I'm confused because people say that, you know, we can't
[17:01] Speaker 6: have this true relationship with God until we receive Christ,
[17:06] Speaker 6: and I don't know. From what you just told me,
[17:09] Speaker 6: it sounds like it is possible to know God without
[17:14] Speaker 6: the formal you know, acceptance of Jesus.
[17:16] Speaker 2: Well, no, the relationship is broken, and through Jesus Christ
[17:21] Speaker 2: we can enter into the fullness of relationship with God.
[17:26] Speaker 2: That fullness develops over time. We go through a process
[17:32] Speaker 2: of sanctification where we're daily conformed to the image of
[17:35] Speaker 2: God and one day will be glorified. But although created
[17:40] Speaker 2: in the image of God, we have to recognize that
[17:43] Speaker 2: we will never possess non transferable or incommunicable attributes. Will
[17:49] Speaker 2: never possess self existence, immutability, eternality. We will never have
[17:57] Speaker 2: absolute sovereignty. These are attributes that God alone has. And
[18:04] Speaker 2: that's why I say, far from being a reproduction of God,
[18:08] Speaker 2: humanity is more correctly portrayed as a reflection of God.
[18:13] Speaker 2: And we reflect what are called theologically communicable attributes. And
[18:20] Speaker 2: those attributes are personality, spirituality, rationality, knowledge, wisdom, morality, goodness, holiness, righteousness, love, justice, mercy,
[18:33] Speaker 2: and the like. Probably a lot more than I can
[18:37] Speaker 2: remember from the tip of my tongue, but those, I
[18:39] Speaker 2: think are a pretty comprehensive list of communicable attributes that
[18:44] Speaker 2: we reflect God with. The incommunicable attributes are those attributes
[18:50] Speaker 2: of God that do not find a reflection in humankind.
[18:54] Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, you got it.
[18:56] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Les, go right
[18:57] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Herb.
[19:00] Speaker 2: He's listening in Alberta, Canada. High Herb.
[19:03] Speaker 4: Hello, dere Hank. It's good to hear you give the
[19:05] Speaker 4: answers to those questions. Thank you, Praise God. Asking a
[19:10] Speaker 4: question about Revelation twenty two to fourteen. In the King
[19:14] Speaker 4: James blessed are they that do his commandments, that they
[19:18] Speaker 4: may have the right to the Tree of life and
[19:20] Speaker 4: may enter through the gates into the city. And then
[19:25] Speaker 4: in the NIV, in Revelations twenty two to fourteen, itutes
[19:28] Speaker 4: at blessed those who washed their ropes, that they may
[19:32] Speaker 4: have the right to the tree of life, and go
[19:35] Speaker 4: through the gates into the city. Yeah, what is the
[19:39] Speaker 4: problem there?
[19:41] Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's a big problem. Bruce Mexicer,
[19:43] Speaker 2: who was the great Princeton scholar, explained that some manuscript
[19:48] Speaker 2: as well as the textas receptis, have here what are
[19:53] Speaker 2: in the Greek somewhat similar sounding words, and therefore there
[19:58] Speaker 2: was a scribal emendation here that simply is wrong in
[20:04] Speaker 2: the textas receptis and correctly rendered in the NIV. So
[20:10] Speaker 2: I think it's correct to say, blessed are those who
[20:14] Speaker 2: wash their robes, that they may have the right to
[20:17] Speaker 2: the tree of life, And it would be incorrect to say,
[20:20] Speaker 2: blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may
[20:23] Speaker 2: have the right to the tree of life.
[20:25] Speaker 4: Yes, now people will say that the King James Bible
[20:32] Speaker 4: is the fully inspired word of God. Is that two wars?
[20:39] Speaker 2: Well, the King James version is a translation. And I
[20:42] Speaker 2: did a television taping on this very thing where we
[20:45] Speaker 2: were celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the completion of
[20:49] Speaker 2: the King James Version. I remember it was commission in
[20:51] Speaker 2: sixteen oh four and then completed in sixteen eleven, and
[20:55] Speaker 2: it was certainly a great translation held sway for four
[20:58] Speaker 2: hundred years. But did it have mistakes? Of course, it
[21:02] Speaker 2: had all kinds of mistakes. Now we know that for
[21:05] Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. First of all, we now have
[21:08] Speaker 2: new and better manuscripts, and those manuscripts that we have
[21:13] Speaker 2: are more ancient than the manuscripts that the King James
[21:17] Speaker 2: version relied on. We also have a better understanding today
[21:22] Speaker 2: of the Biblical languages, and as a result of that,
[21:27] Speaker 2: even the new King James Version has been greatly improved.
[21:31] Speaker 2: And then you know, the other thing that the newer
[21:33] Speaker 2: translations do is they take out the connotative words, words
[21:37] Speaker 2: that have taken on the barnacles of time that are very,
[21:40] Speaker 2: very difficult for us to understand today. For example, in
[21:42] Speaker 2: Acts twenty eight, if you go to the King James version.
[21:45] Speaker 2: I was just looking at this. It's very interesting, they ask.
[21:47] Speaker 2: I actually was with a man who had three original
[21:52] Speaker 2: copies of the King James version that were produced between
[21:56] Speaker 2: sixteen eleven and seventeen sixty nine. So he actually had
[22:01] Speaker 2: them with him on display during the celebration, and I
[22:06] Speaker 2: interviewed him and it was a pretty exciting time. But
[22:09] Speaker 2: you know, you look at those old translations and you
[22:12] Speaker 2: go to Acts twenty eight, and this is one of
[22:14] Speaker 2: the things I was talking about actually when I was
[22:15] Speaker 2: doing the taping. Is you look there and you see
[22:19] Speaker 2: Paul say, from thence we fetched a compass. Now you
[22:24] Speaker 2: scratch your head and say, well, they didn't have compasses
[22:26] Speaker 2: at least for navigational purposes. Weren't even invented for that
[22:30] Speaker 2: purpose at that time, So how could he fetch a
[22:33] Speaker 2: compass when compasses didn't exist. Well, if you understand Elizabethan English,
[22:39] Speaker 2: you recognize that translated into common parlance today, that means
[22:44] Speaker 2: from thence we proceeded in a circular course. But there
[22:48] Speaker 2: are many other examples like that. Jesus said, suffer little
[22:52] Speaker 2: children to come unto me. What does that mean, Well,
[22:54] Speaker 2: it means let little children come unto me. Think of
[22:58] Speaker 2: another one in Psalm for how long will you love
[23:02] Speaker 2: vanity and seek after leasing? Or what does leasing mean?
[23:06] Speaker 2: It means falsehood. So the modern translators just take the
[23:10] Speaker 2: language which is connotative, and they make a denotative again,
[23:13] Speaker 2: gay clothing, they make fine clothing in the like.
[23:17] Speaker 4: Right, what's the best translation to read today?
[23:21] Speaker 2: Well, you know, there are so many good translations today.
[23:24] Speaker 2: I mean, we are so blessed in our epic of time.
[23:27] Speaker 2: I like the new King James version of the Bible
[23:29] Speaker 2: a lot. I memorize the NIV a lot because the
[23:32] Speaker 2: NIV is a thought for thought translation, and therefore it
[23:38] Speaker 2: is much more easy to communicate in a verbal way.
[23:44] Speaker 2: I love memorizing proverbs in the NEASB because NASB is
[23:48] Speaker 2: a translation that's more word for word, and proverbs are pithy,
[23:53] Speaker 2: so I like that translation best for memorizing proverbs. So
[23:56] Speaker 2: it just depends on what you're doing. But I think
[23:58] Speaker 2: it's good to read a number of good time translations.
[24:01] Speaker 2: Use one in particular for study, but having a whole
[24:03] Speaker 2: lot of translations available certainly doesn't hurt.
[24:06] Speaker 4: Yes, I agree with you, and thank you very much.
[24:09] Speaker 2: Hey, you got it. I want to go back to
[24:11] Speaker 2: the phone lines now and we will talk to Tom.
[24:14] Speaker 2: He's listening on the web in Newark, Delaware. Hi.
[24:18] Speaker 4: Tom, it's good to talk to you.
[24:20] Speaker 7: I've learned quite a bit from you, my question would
[24:24] Speaker 7: be life back to death. Of course, I am very
[24:28] Speaker 7: much aware that when we die in Christ, we have
[24:32] Speaker 7: that eternal life. But for those that die without Christ,
[24:37] Speaker 7: where does the Bible say that they have eternal condemnation
[24:43] Speaker 7: as far as suffering.
[24:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the Bible says that in a lot of
[24:48] Speaker 2: different places. You have to start with the presupposition that
[24:52] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ forwarded, and that is everyone's going to be resurrected.
[24:56] Speaker 2: Do not be amazed if this a time is coming
[24:58] Speaker 2: when all who are in the will come out. Some
[25:00] Speaker 2: will rise to live, and some will rise to be condemned.
[25:04] Speaker 2: If you look at Paul's writings second Thessalonians one pops
[25:08] Speaker 2: out where he says the wicked are going to be
[25:10] Speaker 2: punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence
[25:14] Speaker 2: of the Lord and from the majesty of his power.
[25:17] Speaker 2: So obviously the conclusion here is that if the destruction
[25:21] Speaker 2: is temporary, it couldn't be everlasting. The plain reading is
[25:25] Speaker 2: shut out from the presence of the Lord implies continued
[25:30] Speaker 2: existence for all eternity. So I think the pictures that
[25:34] Speaker 2: you have in the scripture of the horrors of Hell
[25:37] Speaker 2: is simply that it's everlasting separation from God. And of
[25:43] Speaker 2: course we know biblically that God does not merely rub
[25:47] Speaker 2: out the crowning jewels of his creation if they seek
[25:52] Speaker 2: to go a different way away apart from His glory
[25:55] Speaker 2: and grace. If they do that, he yet sustains them
[26:00] Speaker 2: in existence, though they have chosen to live apart from Him.
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