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Please tell us more!! This is fascinating!
u/PowderRoomPolitics u/aslan_is_0n_the_m0ve
The video is 2 hours, but it is two sermons put together into one video. I watched it in two parts, and it is very fascinating. This is a pastor at a huge church in Singapore in '09, demonstrating that the Biblical stories of the temptation in the garden, the great flood, the Tower of Babel, blood sacrifice, and more had become embedded into the etymology of the Chinese written language. Granted, I've only really studied the Japanese versions of Chinese characters so several of these are Chinese-only characters, but I have studied enough to see how he makes sense. I wasn't aware of this, but before Taoism and before Buddhism came to China from India just a short number of years before the birth of Christ, China was a monotheistic culture that worshiped Shang Di, or the "one God above all, the sovereign king in heaven." Very interesting sermon.
The second sermon is a comparison of written description of of the omniscient, sovereign God Shang Di and the God of the Old Testament. Chinese texts had recorded an eclipse that darkened the day, and three days later a rainbow had encircled the sun. The prominent missionary to China was convinced that Shang Di was the God of the Old Testament, and the texts spoke of Christ. These texts are rather similar to that of Genesis, with guidelines for animals sacrificed, etc. He talks of how Christianity began spreading very rapidly in China at first, but then the overseers from Rome had to step in, override the wisdom of the Catholic missionaries and began to force cultural superiority onto the Chinese. This did not set well with them. It was the arrogance of the Vatican that had ruined Christianity. They shot themselves in their own foot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS-sKQwB-fc
Looking forward to seeing this, even if in parts at a time so I can absorb it!
Thanks for sharing. I don’t remember where I saw this, probably YouTube, every country or region has story about the flood.