The Discovery of Genesis: How the Truths of Genesis Were Found Hidden in the Chinese Language

by C.H. Kang and Ethel R. Nelson

For many years, scholars and theologians have sought for independent, extra-biblical accounts of Bible history. If there was other history which told the same stories, the credibility of the Bible would certainly increase.

It turns out that there is a parallel history to the Bible. And it turned up in the most unexpected place: the Chinese language. In an extremely secluded people (whose origin traces back to a time very close to the estimated date of the tower or Babel incident), a language of pictographs and ideograms was formed. To [over] simplify, words are formed by pictures that tell the history of the word. And very many of these words tell the same story that Genesis tells.

For example, the Chinese word for create is a combination of the ideograms for dust, breath, alive, and walking (“not a baby, but an adult, able to walk”); happiness contains the ideograms God, first, person and garden; garden is composed of dust, breath, two persons, and enclosure; boat is a combination of a vessel, eight and people. And the list just keeps on going.

Some of the arguments made in this book are more convincing than others, which is pretty standard in any book that argues a point. However, as a whole, The Discovery of Genesis presents an extremely compelling case for the historicity of Genesis being independently verified by the Chinese language.

This is a book that you definitely want to add to your collection.

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