Posted on 11/11/2018 4:11:40 PM PST by Jonty30
This is interesting. The Chinese language testifies the veracity of the Bible.
Dam.
An article that sounds interesting.
Now I have to read. :(
Oh good, a video!! :)
Yes. You can watch it as your time permits. I usually allow ten minutes a day, until I’ve watched the whole thing.
I saw this. It’s fun.
I’m actually 10 minutes in and it is engrossing.
I am going back to it now.
I do not know if the Old testament reached China and if it did, when.
If it was later on, then this is indeed an incredible coincidence, what is written VERY early on in Chinese history regarding creation and the one true God.
Ping.
Thank you. So interesting!
fascinating
Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are not from 6 BC and 5 BC, but 6th and 5th Centuries BC.
That was a mind blower! Thank you for posting!
So this man is claiming Chinese writing has existed twice as long as what I have found thus far. Not saying it's in any way shape or form that that is the definitive word on the subject. His proof, if one can call it that, is in the Chinese characters for writing. None of which I can really verify, though I'm assuming Chinese people can. 8>)
Interesting though. Thanks for sharing.
That’s probably what he meant. However, that doesn’t change the idea that 2500 BC Chinese believed in the Creator God.
Ping ping ping
We have a winner
If the Bible is true, which I believe it is, then the Chinese would not have to have seen the Old Testament. In fact they would not have understood it anyway. So it had to be communicated to them in their tongue, as it was communicated to others in their tongue. If that is the case, then it adds confirmation as to the legitimacy of the Bible as being the word of God, and what actually transpired in ancient history. Because they both are communicating the same events.
That is what makes this interesting, though I have to take it on face value that he is interpreting the Chinese characters accurately. He could fool me easily, but I would think it wouldn't be as easy to fool Chinese people. 8>)
They had traveling merchants back then too. No reason word did not spread. It doesn’t prove anything.
Bump
The content of the video, speaking of nearly 2000 years before those three newer religions mentioned (yes, he made a mistake, but there’s still that long time before those religions even if it’s shortened by centuries), led me to an possibly interesting thought.
Suppose what he’s saying is correct, that the people who created the written Chinese language recorded the stories of their history in how words were written. Why they should do so would clearly be to remember those stories.
As they wrote things out in their day to day dealings the very words that they were using would be bearing witness to them of the stories that they recorded.
In Scripture we are given plenty of examples of and warnings against what happens when people forget the truth, when they forget the Lord. In the near east in the times of the Patriarchs through the time of Israel and Judah we see people living in the aftermaths of forgetting the Lord. What happens to them? They get uprooted, they are scattered, and they lose their lands. It happened time after time. Even if it took considerable time, it eventually happened.
Now I’m not saying that China (the various groups that would come together to form what we call China) through all those centuries knew the Lord any differently than the Patriarchs had done, or that they’d had any special revelation as Moses had been given on the mountain ... no, I’m speaking in light of if you’re given a lot then a lot is expected, or rather what if someone keeps what they’ve been given.
My thought was if those first emigrants coming to a new land from Babel did in fact set down those stories in the very words they used, that they decided to keep what they knew, then is it a coincidence that in that larger scheme of things their posterity did not get uprooted or scattered?
That maybe by refusing to let go of the knowledge that they had, those early writers had somehow helped to protect their posterity by helping them likewise to not forget, at least for a long time.
It’s a fascinating concept. And the consequences of maintaining what you knew of God at that level of revelation that you’ve been given seem consistent with what might be expected.
Much of what we were taught was myth, was real.
Much of what we are taught is real, is myth.
Jews have always believed that Gen 25:6 (And Abraham gave his sons gifts and sent them to the land of the east) indicated the settlement of eastern Asia.
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