{"id":37748,"date":"2016-08-06T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=37748"},"modified":"2016-08-06T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T22:41:39","slug":"do-chinese-geological-and-writing-characters-point-towards-noah-and-the-great-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/old-testament-history\/do-chinese-geological-and-writing-characters-point-towards-noah-and-the-great-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there Chinese evidence that point towards Noah and the great flood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJohn Martin’s 1834 version of the Deluge
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COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Researchers are claiming that there is evidence to support a great flood that affected the Chinese, prior to the start of later Chinese civilization:<\/p>\n

August 5, 2016<\/p>\n

A Chinese myth that speaks of a flood so high “it threatens the very heavens<\/a>” may be rooted in fact after all.<\/p>\n

Some 4,000 years ago, legend says, the flood tore through a large are of central China washing away cities and inundating farmland.<\/p>\n

Enter a hero named Yu the Great, who earned his sobriquet by spending decades organizing a campaign to dig canals to channel the floodwater, supposedly passing his home three times as he traveled the region, but never setting foot inside until the job was done.<\/p>\n

Yu was so revered for these public works that he passed into legend as emperor of China’s supposed first dynasty, the mythical Xia Dynasty.<\/p>\n

Now, researchers in China say they may have found evidence that the great flood that sparked the myths was, in fact, a real event on the region’s Yellow River. \u00a0https:\/\/weather.com\/science\/news\/scientists-find-evidence-china-legendary-great-flood-was-real<\/a><\/p>\n

Analysis of the crushed skeletons of children have revealed that an earthquake 4,000 years ago could be the source of a legendary \u201cgreat flood\u201d at the dawn of Chinese civilisation.<\/p>\n

A Chinese-led team found remnants of a vast landslide, caused by an earthquake, big enough to block the Yellow river in what is now Qinghai province, near Tibet. …<\/p>\n

The authors put the Yellow river flood at about 1920 BC by carbon dating the skeletons of children in a group of 14 victims found crushed downstream, apparently when their home collapsed in the earthquake. …<\/p>\n

The evidence of a massive flood in line with the legend \u201cprovides us with a tantalising hint that the Xia dynasty might really have existed\u201d, said one of the authors, David Cohen of National Taiwan University.<\/p>\n

Deluges feature in many traditions, from Hindu texts to the biblical story of Noah. In pre-history, floods were probably frequent as ice sheets melted after the last ice age ended …\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/aug\/05\/chinas-great-flood-tests-on-childrens-bones-support-4000-year-old-legend<\/a><\/p>\n

“The flood is pouring forth destruction.\u00a0Boundless and overwhelming, it overtops hills and mountains,” goes a\u00a0quote<\/a>\u00a0attributed to the legendary Emperor Yao. “Rising and ever rising, it threatens the very heavens.”<\/p>\n

If civilization was to survive, the people needed a hero\u00a0who could tame the floodwaters and restore the land. That man was Yu, founder of China’s first dynasty, the Xia. Over the course of decades, Yu\u00a0organized a dredging campaign, dug channels that would carry the water back to its\u00a0source, and pioneered a tradition of great Chinese public works.<\/p>\n

“He brings order out of the\u00a0chaos\u00a0and defines the land, separating\u00a0what would become the\u00a0center\u00a0of\u00a0Chinese civilization,” said\u00a0David Cohen<\/a>, an anthropologist and early Chinese history expert at National Taiwan University. “He is essentially establishing the political order and the ideologies of rulership.”<\/p>\n

It is a powerful foundation myth, but many\u00a0believed that was all it was. Some 4,000 years after the flood\u00a0was supposed\u00a0to have happened,\u00a0historians had\u00a0found no archaeological evidence of its effect or\u00a0firsthand accounts of its destruction. There are no historical artifacts from Yu, or the Xia dynasty he founded. All researchers\u00a0had to go on were stories written long after the fact, dramatized\u00a0and politicized to justify the ends of those who wrote them.<\/p>\n

Until\u00a0Wu Qinglong<\/a>, a geologist at Nanjing Normal University, found signs of the flood in the sediments beneath his feet.<\/p>\n

In a new\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0published Thursday in the journal Science, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about\u00a01900 B.C. \u2014 right around the time the \u201cGreat Flood\u201d was said to have taken place.<\/p>\n

“This expands our understanding,” said Andrew Sudgen, deputy editor of Science, “not only of civilization\u2019s origins, but also the environment in which ancestral societies emerged.” https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/08\/04\/legends-say-china-began-in-a-great-flood-scientists-just-found-evidence-that-the-flood-was-real\/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bible tells of a massive worldwide flood that occurred (Genesis chapters 6 -8). This seems to have been around 2325 B.C. (see Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Since carbon dating has its flaws, it could be that the remains found were related to the flood in Noah’s time, or perhaps a different, more local flood, that occurred a few centuries later.<\/p>\n

However, there is other evidence in China that the Chinese were aware of the biblical flood.<\/p>\n

Notice a couple of statements in the Bible concerning the flood:<\/p>\n

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1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. (Genesis 7:1).<\/p>\n

20…in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water (1 Peter 3:20).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Chinese word chu\u00e1n<\/strong> for a type of boat is made up of symbols as described:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boat<\/strong><\/td>\n= 8<\/strong><\/td>\n+ Mouth<\/strong><\/td>\n+ Little Boat,
\nVessel<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It may be of interest to note that one of the Chinese symbols for flood (chong<\/strong>) is a combination of an inverted symbol meaning “first Earthly branch” and eight (the term for eight may instead mean “person remaining””–that of itself is interesting as that the symbol for eight and “person remaining” look about the same–recall that on the ark there were only eight persons remaining alive).<\/p>\n

After the flood, humans stayed together and built a tower:<\/p>\n

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:1-4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But God did not care for this:<\/p>\n

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” (Genesis 11:5-7).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is highly likely that when people saw others speaking foreign languages, that they thought that somehow something at this tower affected their mouths. The Chinese symbol of a tower is made up of symbols as described:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tower<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n= Grass<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n+ Clay<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n+ Mankind<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n+ 1<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n+ Mouth<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The tower of Babel was built with bricks (grass and clay) and humans originally had one language (or mouth). It is possible that this symbol is showing that the ancient Chinese recognized a connection to the biblical tower of Babel.\u00a0 The Bible shows that after God confused the languages in Babel that He scattered humans all over:<\/p>\n

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth (Genesis 11:8-9).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bible also mentions:<\/p>\n

25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan (Genesis 10:25).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now whether it was just the scattering of humans that occurred in Peleg’s time, or that the earth had continental divisions at that time is not completely clear. What is clear, however, is that humans did separate essentially by language and ethnicity thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n

When I tried to copy each of the Chinese characters into this post, they did not copy properly.<\/p>\n

To see them, however, simply go to my article China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That article also has evidence, via Chinese characters, that the ancient Chinese knew about Adam & Eve and more in Genesis.<\/p>\n

The biblical accounts can be trusted, even if certain ‘experts’ wish to pretend that they are only myths.<\/p>\n

Some items of potentially related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n

China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters<\/a> Where did the Chinese people come from? This article provides information showing that the Chinese peoples must have known about various accounts in the Book of Genesis up until their dispersion after the Tower of Babel. Here is a link to a version of this article in Spanish: \u00bfPrueban los caracteres chinos la exactitud de la Biblia?<\/a>
\nHave the Turks and Chinese Just Found Noah\u2019s Ark?<\/a> Some have so claimed. If true, this could change how much of the world views events from the Bible.
\nIs God’s Existence Logical?<\/a> Some say it is not logical to believe in God. Is that true? Here is a link to a YouTube sermon titled Is it logical to believe in God?<\/a>
\nIs Evolution Probable or Impossible or Is God’s Existence Logical? Part II<\/a> This short article clearly answers what ‘pseudo-scientists’ refuse to acknowledge. Here is a link to a YouTube video titled Is There Another View of Evolution?<\/a> and another titled Quickly Disprove Evolution as the Origin of Life<\/a>.
\nHow Old is the Earth and How Long Were the Days of Creation?<\/a> Does the Bible allow for the creation of the universe and earth billions of years ago? Why do some believe they are no older than 6,000 years old? What is the gap theory? Were the days of creation in Genesis 1:3 through 2:3 24 hours long? Here is a link to a sermon: Genesis, ‘Prehistoric man,’ and the Gap theory<\/a>. Here is a link to a related article in Spanish: \u00bfCu\u00e1n vieja es la Tierra? \u00bfCu\u00e1n largos fueron los D\u00edas de la Creaci\u00f3n? \u00bfTeor\u00eda de la brecha?<\/a>
\nDid Angels Marry Human Women?<\/a> Many insist this is so and also that this mating caused giants to be born. Did this come from the ‘Book of Enoch’? What does Genesis 6:4 really mean? A related video is also available: Did Angels Marry Women and Produce Giants?<\/a>
\nWhere Did God Come From?<\/a> Any ideas? And how has God been able to exist? Who is God?
\nHow is God Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient?<\/a> Here is a biblical article which answers what many really wonder about it.
\nHas time been lost?<\/a> It Saturday the seventh day of the week?
\nStudy the Bible Course<\/a> Want to learn more about the Bible? This new course is for you! It is also available in French (Le\u00e7on 1 En franc\u00e9s<\/a>), Kiswahili (Somo 1 Katika Kiswahili<\/a>), Mandarin Chinese (\u9996\u9875 \u203a \u4e2d\u56fd<\/a>), Tagalog (KURSO SA PAG-ARAL NG BIBLYA<\/a>), and Spanish (Lecci\u00f3n 1 En castellano<\/a>).
\nRead the Bible<\/a> Christians should read and study the Bible. This article gives some rationale for regular bible reading. Here is a link in Mandarin Chinese: \u8bfb\u5723\u7ecf<\/a> Here is a link in the Spanish language: Lea la Biblia<\/a>.
\nBible: Superstition or Authority?<\/a> Should you rely on the Bible? Is it reliable? Herbert W. Armstrong<\/a> wrote this as a booklet on this important subject.
\nDoes God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a> Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? Does God have 7,000 year plan? What year may the six thousand years of human rule end? When will Jesus return? 2024 or 20xx? There is also a video titled The 6000 Year Plan: Is the end of humanity’s reign almost up?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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