Transcript Genesis in Kanji This is the Kanji that Means “Large Boat”
Slide 1
Genesis in Kanji
This is the Kanji that Means “Large Boat”
Slide 2
There are sufficient evidences that prove the
Bible is God’s Word.
Other evidences, however, confirm the historical and
scientific accuracy of the Bible.
Archaeology
Geology
Science
Another evidence may be seen in the ancient
written language of China.
Slide 3
The book of Genesis in the Bible was written by
Moses in about 1500 B.C.
The Ancient Chinese Language Characters
Originated at about 2500 B.C.; 1000 years before
Moses wrote the book of Genesis.
And yet, these Chinese characters suggest an
acquaintance with some of the stories found in the
book of Genesis.
These Chinese Characters have been incorporated
into the Japanese language and are
referred to as “Kanji.”
Slide 4
The Chinese Language
Is the oldest, continuously written
language in the World
First written over 4,500 years ago
The inventors of the written language
drew pictures to express words or ideas
Simple pictures were combined to make
more complex thoughts
Slide 5
Well known history and
common everyday things
were
used to make a word so
people
could remember it
Slide 6
Simple Pictures Were Combined
To Make More Complex Thoughts
For Example
=
+
Man
(legs)
Mouth
Older
Brother
The “mouth man” or “spokes-person for the family
was usually the oldest son (“first born son”).
Slide 7
This is the Kanji for “Ship”
It is composed of three other kanji.
+
Little
Boat
+
Eight
=
Mouth or
Person
Ship or Big Boat
Why would the Chinese write “Ship” in this way?
Slide 8
Long before Buddha, the Chinese people worshipped the same God described in the Bible!
The Proof is in the Ancient
Chinese Characters (Kanji)
2500 B.C.
Chinese
language first
written
1400 B.C.
First five
books of
Bible
written
557 B.C.
67 B.C.
30 A.D. 541 A.D. 2000 A.D.
Confucianism Death of
Taoism
Jesus
Buddha
Today
Gospel Brought
to China
“Shang Di” was the god of China
before Buddha. He was the CreatorGod and animal sacrifice was offered
to Him.
Slide 9
Many in China Today believe that the
Bible is a Western book.
They believe it is simply myth and
fable written by western men.
They think of it as an English book.
HOWEVER!
Slide 10
The Bible is not a Western Book.
The Bible was not written in English but
in Hebrew and Greek.
It’s first writers were from Egypt &
Babylon (Iraq).
The first five books were written by
Moses, an adopted son of the king of
Egypt (1500 B.C., 1,000 years after
Chinese language).
These five books focus on the beginning
of the nation of Israel; but the first eleven
chapters of the Bible record the history
that all nations have in common.
Slide 11
We will prove that the
Weancestors
will nowofexamine
some
the modern
stories
Bible
Chinese
knewin
thethe
same
stories
in 2500 B.C. that were not
Then
written in the book of
Genesis until 1500 B.C.
Show Chinese Characters (Kanji)
which demonstrate the
same story
Slide 12
The Origin of Languages and the
Separation of People
“Now the whole earth used the same language
and the same words. And it came about as they
journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of
Shinar (Babylon) and settled there. And they said to one
another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and burn them
thoroughly.’ And they used brick for stone, and they
used tar for mortar. And they said, ‘Come, let us build
for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach
into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest
we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole
earth.’
Slide 13
“And the LORD came down to see the city and
the tower which the sons of men had built. And the
LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they all
have the same language. And this is what they began
to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will
be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and
there confuse their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.’ So the LORD
scattered them abroad from there over the face of the
whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
Therefore its name was called Babel, be-cause there
the LORD confused the language of the whole earth;
and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over
the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:1-9
NASB).
Slide 14
Notice the main points
of this story in the Bible.
Took place about 5000
years ago
Languages were divided
People were scattered
World’s oldest written
language (Chinese) is
more that 4500 years old
Slide 15
The Tower of Babel, Gen. 11:1-9
+
=
Tower
Grass
+
Clay
+
+
Mankind
One
Mouth
The Tower of Babel was likely built with bricks of
grass and clay when all of mankind spoke with one
mouth and they desired to stay together.
How could the Chinese have learned about this
before the book of Genesis was written?
Slide 16
This is the
Location of the
Tower of
Babylon
2500-3000 B.C.
This area today
is the country
of Iraq.
Slide 17
If the Bible is
true, all nations
migrated or
moved from
Babylon
Slide 18
The people
who became
the Chinese
would have
migrated or
walked from
the west
(Babylon) to
China
N
W
E
S
Slide 19
To Migrate,
to Move
=
+
The People
who became The
Chinese
walked from the
west after a
great division.
+
Migrate Great Division
+
Walk
West
Slide 20
“Then the LORD God CREATED man of dust
from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living being”
(Genesis 2:7).
+
=
Dust
To Talk
=
To Create
+
Mouth
Man
Alive
+
To Talk
Walking
Slide 21
According to the Bible
The First Man was a Living Dust Man
+
=
FIRST
DUST
+
MAN
ALIVE
According to the Chinese Language,
4500 years ago, this was also believed in
China.
Slide 22
This is the Chinese Symbol
for Happiness or Blessing
It is Composed of the Following Symbols
+
God
+
Man
+
One
Garden
In the beginning God and the man were
one in the Garden of Eden; they had
close fellowship, which leads to true
happiness!
Slide 23
But Man Lost His Fellowship with God.
Adam and Eve Sinned and had to leave the
Garden of Eden.
GOD
SIN
MAN
Their guilt separated them from God
Slide 24
How Did the Chinese Believe Man
Could Be Made Righteous?
=
I, Me, Us
+
Hand
=
Righteousness
Lance
+
I, Me, Us
Sheep
Slide 25
“The Lord planted a garden eastward, in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed”
(Genesis 2:8).
=
West
+
One, First
+
Man
Enclosure,
Garden
When Moses wrote the book of Genesis the Garden
of Eden (in what is Iraq today) was east of him, but
the Garden of Eden was West for the Chinese.
Slide 26
Garden of Eden
But for the Chinese the first
man lived in a Garden in the
WEST.
Eden was east
from where
Moses was
when he wrote
Genesis.
N
W
E
S
Slide 27
God Saw That Adam Needed a Companion
“And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to
be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the
field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to
see what names he would give them: and whatever name
he gave to any living thing, that was its name. And the man
gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to
every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself
as a help. And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man,
and took one of the bones from his side while he was
sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: And the
Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of
Slide 28
the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the
flesh again in its place: And the bone which the Lord God
had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took
her to the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my
bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman
because she was taken out of Man. For this cause will a
man go away from his father and his mother and be joined
to his wife; and they will be one flesh” (Genesis 2:18-24,
BBE)
“And God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper suited for him” (Genesis
2:18).
Slide 29
God Created Woman for Man
+
=
To Want,
Desire, or
Necessary
Woman
West
Because it was necessary for Adam to have a
companion, God created a woman in a garden to the
west (from the Chinese perspective).
Slide 30
So, at the BEGINNING, there were two
people, Adam and Eve.
=
Beginning,
First
+
Two
People
The Chinese characters in 2500 B.C. were in
agreement with the creation account in the book of
Geneses, written in 1500 B.C.
Slide 31
How Many Special Trees Were There in the
Garden of Eden?
“And the Lord God made a garden in the
east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom He
had made. And out of the earth the Lord made
every tree to come, delighting the eye and good
for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree
of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. (Gen. 2:8-9, BBE)
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
(Gen. 2:17) and The Tree of Life (Gen. 3:22)
Slide 32
“And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You
may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden: But of
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will
certainly come to you” (Genesis 2:16-17, BBE).
Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
So, let’s look at the Kanji for “Forbidden”?
=
Forbidden
+
Two Trees
Command
Slide 33
Eve Is Tempted to Eat the Forbidden Fruit
“Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman,
‘Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any
tree in the garden?’ And the woman said, ‘We may take of
the fruit of the trees in the garden: But of the fruit of the tree
in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or
put your hands on it, death will come to you.’ ‘And the snake
said, Death will not certainly come to you: For God sees that
on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open,
and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil’”
(Genesis 3:1-5)
Slide 34
Eve Desired the Fruit of the Tree
“When the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,
she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also
to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the
eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together and made themselves loin coverings”
(Genesis 3:6-8, NASB) .
Slide 35
This is the Kanji for “Covet” or “Desire”
+
=
To Covet,
or Desire
Woman
Two Trees
How did the Chinese learn about Eve desiring the fruit
of one of the trees 1,000 years before Genesis was
written?
Slide 36
The Chinese people 4,500 years ago associated
the devil with a garden and two trees.
=
Devil,
Satan
Life
+
Garden
=
Tempter
+
+
Person
+
Devil
Secret or
Private
+
Two Trees
Cover
Under the cover of the trees in the Garden the
Devil became the Tempter.
Slide 37
After Eating the Forbidden Fruit, Adam and
Eve Realized They Were Naked.
There Are Two Similar Kanji for “Naked.”
Where Did the Chinese Learn This in 2,500 B.C.?
Slide 38
Gen. 3:6,16 – “…she took of the fruit and ate . . . To
the woman He said: ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and
your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over
you.’”
The Chinese Character for “Pain” Is:
=
Pain
+
A Piece
Two Trees
Eve’s punishment for eating a piece of fruit from the
forbidden tree was to suffer pain.
Slide 39
Cain, the Older Brother in the First Family,
Killed His Brother, Gen. 4:1-8
Gen. 4:15 – “And the Lord said to him, ‘Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on
him sevenfold.’ And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest
anyone finding him should kill him.”
=
Cruel,
Violent
+
Eldest
Son
+
Man
Mouth
The first older son in the Bible was violent. Both
“eldest son” and “violent” are pronounced “Shun.”
Slide 40
Noah and His Family (Eight Persons) Were Saved
From the Flood in a Large Ship (Ark), 1 Pet. 3:20.
+
=
Large Ship
Eight
+
Mouth,
Person
Small
Boat
After the flood there were eight united people
on the earth.
Slide 41
The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• We have shown that the Chinese people in
2500 B.C. were evidently familiar with the
stories recorded in the book of Genesis about
the creation, the first sin, animal sacrifices, Cain
and Abel, the Devil, the flood, etc., long before
the book of Genesis was written.
• The similarities between the two sources (Chinese characters and the Genesis account) are
too strong to have been the result of mere coincidence.
• This confirms the historical accuracy of the
Genesis account.
Slide 42
The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• The only explanation for these similarities is
that the stories in Genesis were taken east from
Babylon by the ancestors of the Chinese when
God confused the languages and caused the
people to be scattered to the four corners of the
earth, as related in Genesis 11.
• The stories were preserved in the Chinese
characters which were formed as their written
language as early as 2500 B.C.
• They are still preserved in the Kanji used by the
Japanese in their written language today.
Slide 43
The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• This is strong supporting evidence for the
historical accuracy of the first few chapters of
the book of Genesis.
• It should reinforce our faith in the Bible as the
word of God.
• A person can come to (have fellowship with)
God only by:
a. Believing that He exists eternally
b. Believing that He is the rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him. (Heb. 11:6)
• Will you begin diligently seeking Him today?
Genesis in Kanji
This is the Kanji that Means “Large Boat”
Slide 2
There are sufficient evidences that prove the
Bible is God’s Word.
Other evidences, however, confirm the historical and
scientific accuracy of the Bible.
Archaeology
Geology
Science
Another evidence may be seen in the ancient
written language of China.
Slide 3
The book of Genesis in the Bible was written by
Moses in about 1500 B.C.
The Ancient Chinese Language Characters
Originated at about 2500 B.C.; 1000 years before
Moses wrote the book of Genesis.
And yet, these Chinese characters suggest an
acquaintance with some of the stories found in the
book of Genesis.
These Chinese Characters have been incorporated
into the Japanese language and are
referred to as “Kanji.”
Slide 4
The Chinese Language
Is the oldest, continuously written
language in the World
First written over 4,500 years ago
The inventors of the written language
drew pictures to express words or ideas
Simple pictures were combined to make
more complex thoughts
Slide 5
Well known history and
common everyday things
were
used to make a word so
people
could remember it
Slide 6
Simple Pictures Were Combined
To Make More Complex Thoughts
For Example
=
+
Man
(legs)
Mouth
Older
Brother
The “mouth man” or “spokes-person for the family
was usually the oldest son (“first born son”).
Slide 7
This is the Kanji for “Ship”
It is composed of three other kanji.
+
Little
Boat
+
Eight
=
Mouth or
Person
Ship or Big Boat
Why would the Chinese write “Ship” in this way?
Slide 8
Long before Buddha, the Chinese people worshipped the same God described in the Bible!
The Proof is in the Ancient
Chinese Characters (Kanji)
2500 B.C.
Chinese
language first
written
1400 B.C.
First five
books of
Bible
written
557 B.C.
67 B.C.
30 A.D. 541 A.D. 2000 A.D.
Confucianism Death of
Taoism
Jesus
Buddha
Today
Gospel Brought
to China
“Shang Di” was the god of China
before Buddha. He was the CreatorGod and animal sacrifice was offered
to Him.
Slide 9
Many in China Today believe that the
Bible is a Western book.
They believe it is simply myth and
fable written by western men.
They think of it as an English book.
HOWEVER!
Slide 10
The Bible is not a Western Book.
The Bible was not written in English but
in Hebrew and Greek.
It’s first writers were from Egypt &
Babylon (Iraq).
The first five books were written by
Moses, an adopted son of the king of
Egypt (1500 B.C., 1,000 years after
Chinese language).
These five books focus on the beginning
of the nation of Israel; but the first eleven
chapters of the Bible record the history
that all nations have in common.
Slide 11
We will prove that the
Weancestors
will nowofexamine
some
the modern
stories
Bible
Chinese
knewin
thethe
same
stories
in 2500 B.C. that were not
Then
written in the book of
Genesis until 1500 B.C.
Show Chinese Characters (Kanji)
which demonstrate the
same story
Slide 12
The Origin of Languages and the
Separation of People
“Now the whole earth used the same language
and the same words. And it came about as they
journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of
Shinar (Babylon) and settled there. And they said to one
another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and burn them
thoroughly.’ And they used brick for stone, and they
used tar for mortar. And they said, ‘Come, let us build
for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach
into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest
we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole
earth.’
Slide 13
“And the LORD came down to see the city and
the tower which the sons of men had built. And the
LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they all
have the same language. And this is what they began
to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will
be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and
there confuse their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.’ So the LORD
scattered them abroad from there over the face of the
whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
Therefore its name was called Babel, be-cause there
the LORD confused the language of the whole earth;
and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over
the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:1-9
NASB).
Slide 14
Notice the main points
of this story in the Bible.
Took place about 5000
years ago
Languages were divided
People were scattered
World’s oldest written
language (Chinese) is
more that 4500 years old
Slide 15
The Tower of Babel, Gen. 11:1-9
+
=
Tower
Grass
+
Clay
+
+
Mankind
One
Mouth
The Tower of Babel was likely built with bricks of
grass and clay when all of mankind spoke with one
mouth and they desired to stay together.
How could the Chinese have learned about this
before the book of Genesis was written?
Slide 16
This is the
Location of the
Tower of
Babylon
2500-3000 B.C.
This area today
is the country
of Iraq.
Slide 17
If the Bible is
true, all nations
migrated or
moved from
Babylon
Slide 18
The people
who became
the Chinese
would have
migrated or
walked from
the west
(Babylon) to
China
N
W
E
S
Slide 19
To Migrate,
to Move
=
+
The People
who became The
Chinese
walked from the
west after a
great division.
+
Migrate Great Division
+
Walk
West
Slide 20
“Then the LORD God CREATED man of dust
from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living being”
(Genesis 2:7).
+
=
Dust
To Talk
=
To Create
+
Mouth
Man
Alive
+
To Talk
Walking
Slide 21
According to the Bible
The First Man was a Living Dust Man
+
=
FIRST
DUST
+
MAN
ALIVE
According to the Chinese Language,
4500 years ago, this was also believed in
China.
Slide 22
This is the Chinese Symbol
for Happiness or Blessing
It is Composed of the Following Symbols
+
God
+
Man
+
One
Garden
In the beginning God and the man were
one in the Garden of Eden; they had
close fellowship, which leads to true
happiness!
Slide 23
But Man Lost His Fellowship with God.
Adam and Eve Sinned and had to leave the
Garden of Eden.
GOD
SIN
MAN
Their guilt separated them from God
Slide 24
How Did the Chinese Believe Man
Could Be Made Righteous?
=
I, Me, Us
+
Hand
=
Righteousness
Lance
+
I, Me, Us
Sheep
Slide 25
“The Lord planted a garden eastward, in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed”
(Genesis 2:8).
=
West
+
One, First
+
Man
Enclosure,
Garden
When Moses wrote the book of Genesis the Garden
of Eden (in what is Iraq today) was east of him, but
the Garden of Eden was West for the Chinese.
Slide 26
Garden of Eden
But for the Chinese the first
man lived in a Garden in the
WEST.
Eden was east
from where
Moses was
when he wrote
Genesis.
N
W
E
S
Slide 27
God Saw That Adam Needed a Companion
“And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to
be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the
field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to
see what names he would give them: and whatever name
he gave to any living thing, that was its name. And the man
gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to
every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself
as a help. And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man,
and took one of the bones from his side while he was
sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: And the
Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of
Slide 28
the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the
flesh again in its place: And the bone which the Lord God
had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took
her to the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my
bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman
because she was taken out of Man. For this cause will a
man go away from his father and his mother and be joined
to his wife; and they will be one flesh” (Genesis 2:18-24,
BBE)
“And God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper suited for him” (Genesis
2:18).
Slide 29
God Created Woman for Man
+
=
To Want,
Desire, or
Necessary
Woman
West
Because it was necessary for Adam to have a
companion, God created a woman in a garden to the
west (from the Chinese perspective).
Slide 30
So, at the BEGINNING, there were two
people, Adam and Eve.
=
Beginning,
First
+
Two
People
The Chinese characters in 2500 B.C. were in
agreement with the creation account in the book of
Geneses, written in 1500 B.C.
Slide 31
How Many Special Trees Were There in the
Garden of Eden?
“And the Lord God made a garden in the
east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom He
had made. And out of the earth the Lord made
every tree to come, delighting the eye and good
for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree
of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. (Gen. 2:8-9, BBE)
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
(Gen. 2:17) and The Tree of Life (Gen. 3:22)
Slide 32
“And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You
may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden: But of
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will
certainly come to you” (Genesis 2:16-17, BBE).
Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
So, let’s look at the Kanji for “Forbidden”?
=
Forbidden
+
Two Trees
Command
Slide 33
Eve Is Tempted to Eat the Forbidden Fruit
“Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman,
‘Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any
tree in the garden?’ And the woman said, ‘We may take of
the fruit of the trees in the garden: But of the fruit of the tree
in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or
put your hands on it, death will come to you.’ ‘And the snake
said, Death will not certainly come to you: For God sees that
on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open,
and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil’”
(Genesis 3:1-5)
Slide 34
Eve Desired the Fruit of the Tree
“When the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,
she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also
to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the
eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together and made themselves loin coverings”
(Genesis 3:6-8, NASB) .
Slide 35
This is the Kanji for “Covet” or “Desire”
+
=
To Covet,
or Desire
Woman
Two Trees
How did the Chinese learn about Eve desiring the fruit
of one of the trees 1,000 years before Genesis was
written?
Slide 36
The Chinese people 4,500 years ago associated
the devil with a garden and two trees.
=
Devil,
Satan
Life
+
Garden
=
Tempter
+
+
Person
+
Devil
Secret or
Private
+
Two Trees
Cover
Under the cover of the trees in the Garden the
Devil became the Tempter.
Slide 37
After Eating the Forbidden Fruit, Adam and
Eve Realized They Were Naked.
There Are Two Similar Kanji for “Naked.”
Where Did the Chinese Learn This in 2,500 B.C.?
Slide 38
Gen. 3:6,16 – “…she took of the fruit and ate . . . To
the woman He said: ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and
your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over
you.’”
The Chinese Character for “Pain” Is:
=
Pain
+
A Piece
Two Trees
Eve’s punishment for eating a piece of fruit from the
forbidden tree was to suffer pain.
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Cain, the Older Brother in the First Family,
Killed His Brother, Gen. 4:1-8
Gen. 4:15 – “And the Lord said to him, ‘Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on
him sevenfold.’ And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest
anyone finding him should kill him.”
=
Cruel,
Violent
+
Eldest
Son
+
Man
Mouth
The first older son in the Bible was violent. Both
“eldest son” and “violent” are pronounced “Shun.”
Slide 40
Noah and His Family (Eight Persons) Were Saved
From the Flood in a Large Ship (Ark), 1 Pet. 3:20.
+
=
Large Ship
Eight
+
Mouth,
Person
Small
Boat
After the flood there were eight united people
on the earth.
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The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• We have shown that the Chinese people in
2500 B.C. were evidently familiar with the
stories recorded in the book of Genesis about
the creation, the first sin, animal sacrifices, Cain
and Abel, the Devil, the flood, etc., long before
the book of Genesis was written.
• The similarities between the two sources (Chinese characters and the Genesis account) are
too strong to have been the result of mere coincidence.
• This confirms the historical accuracy of the
Genesis account.
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The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• The only explanation for these similarities is
that the stories in Genesis were taken east from
Babylon by the ancestors of the Chinese when
God confused the languages and caused the
people to be scattered to the four corners of the
earth, as related in Genesis 11.
• The stories were preserved in the Chinese
characters which were formed as their written
language as early as 2500 B.C.
• They are still preserved in the Kanji used by the
Japanese in their written language today.
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The Genesis Stories in Kanji
• This is strong supporting evidence for the
historical accuracy of the first few chapters of
the book of Genesis.
• It should reinforce our faith in the Bible as the
word of God.
• A person can come to (have fellowship with)
God only by:
a. Believing that He exists eternally
b. Believing that He is the rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him. (Heb. 11:6)
• Will you begin diligently seeking Him today?