With the movie “Noah” in the theatres now, it aroused my curiosity about Oriental origins according to the bible. There are some very interesting readings which I came across.
Chinese Characters and Genesis:
Here are seven modern Chinese Characters that show that the ancient Chinese knew the Gospel message found in the book of Genesis. In the book God’s Promise to the Chinese by Ethel Nelson, Richard Broadberry and Dr Ginger Tong Chock, hundreds more are revealed!
http://creation.com/chinese-characters-and-genesis
Here’s an interactive demonstration using more characters as examples:
http://students.washington.edu/cbsf/cool/Chinese.swf
The original ‘unknown’ god of China:
One of the earliest accounts of the Border Sacrifice is found in the Shu Jing (Book of History), compiled by Confucius, where it is recorded of Emperor Shun (who ruled from about 2256 BC to 2205 BC when the first recorded dynasty began) that ‘he sacrificed to ShangDi.’ As the emperor took part in this annual service dedicated to ShangDi, the following words were recited, clearly showing that he considered ShangDi the Creator of the world: ‘Of old in the beginning, there was the great chaos, without form and dark. The five elements [planets] had not begun to revolve, nor the sun and moon to shine. You, O Spiritual Sovereign, first divided the grosser parts from the purer. You made heaven. You made earth. You made man. All things with their reproducing power got their being.’ For the Christian, the above recitation sounds strangely familiar. How closely it reads to the opening chapter of the biblical Genesis!
ShangDi, the Creator-God of the Chinese, surely appears to be one and the same as the Creator-God of the Hebrews. In fact, one of the Hebrew names for God is El Shaddai, which is phonetically similar to ShangDi. Even more similar is the Early Zhou pronunciation of ShangDi which is ‘djanh-tigh’ [Zhan-dai].
http://creation.com/the-original-unknown-god-of-china
Tracing the nations back to Babel (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-12):
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