Category: Religion of Ancient China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGUC9GNqfE The Chinese language is the oldest continuously written language in the world. It was 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. For example, in the ancient Chinese culture the older brother was a spokesperson for the family. This is possibly why the character for elder brother is the “mouth man”. If you add the ancient Chinese writings of “mouth” and “man” together, it makes the word “elder brother”.  Well-known history in common everyday things were used to make a word so people could remember it. Before Buddha, the Chinese people worship the same God described in the Bible. The proof is in the ancient Chinese characters “上帝” (“shangti”)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw4iP4fbYd4 When you think about Chinese history and culture, you probably think of Confucius as the beginning of Chinese culture and civilization. But you would be wrong because Confucius only came in at half time. Before Confucius, there was already 2,000 years of Chinese history and records before Confucius even came on the scene. And then another 2000 plus years to us now. What I am sharing with you to pay attention to comes at the beginning of the Chinese civilization. I believe the knowledge of God is brought over after the dispersion at the Tower of Babel. When we talk about foreign religion, Buddhism only came into China in 68 AD and only flourished during the Tang dynasty in the 400s and because the result is the Tang dynasty…

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https://youtu.be/AZENIl7zNnA I want to share something very exciting with you. The heavens declare the glory of God. Just as in the Bible, the Chinese believe that God uses the heavenly bodies to send messages to men. Now this is not astrology. Astrology believes that the stars and the moons and the movement control our lives. So this is not a matter of control but this is a matter of communication. Because even in the Bible, we know that like in Psalm 19 “You know the heavens declare the glory of God. You know day by day it sends out his speech” so the God who flung the stars into space would also use them to communicate messages to us and usually - now this is another difference between astrology and…

https://youtu.be/8XnT_KrrKLA The Most High God. The Bible says he has not left himself without evidence. This is Beijing China and this is the Temple of Heaven. This amazing structure behind me has stood on this exact location for more than 600 years. But its purpose goes back thousands of years. A structure like this has existed for more than 4,000 years. Its purpose was to celebrate the annual border sacrifice, the annual border sacrifice offered each year by the Emperor of China in dedication to the God Shang Di.  Shang Di in Chinese means “the Most High God, Lord of heaven”. Shang Di is revealed throughout Chinese history as a benevolent creator God. Clean animal sacrifices were offered to him. This structure was for that purpose of those sacrifices made…

How true religion got corrupted in ChinaOver time, the Chinese began to add more and more gods and slowly worship moved away from the Supreme Deity. This is what God warned us not to. (Exo 20:1-5 NIV)  And God spoke all these words: {2} “I am the LORD your God…{3} “You shall have no other gods before me. {4} “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. {5} You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God… 出 埃 及 记20:1 神吩咐这一切的话说，20:2 我是耶和华你的神，曾将你从埃及地为奴之家领出来。20:3 除了我以外，你不可有别的神。20:4 不可为自己雕刻偶像，也不可作什么形像彷佛上天，下地，和地底下，水中的百物。20:5 不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉它，因为我耶和华你的神是忌邪的神。 What gods did the Chinese worship? Humans deified as godsOver time many gods were introduced…

https://youtu.be/YjGUC9GNqfE Transcript of video above https://youtu.be/LTMzV5G4OQU Further clues from the Chinese languageWe know what the ancient Chinese believed in not just from early historical writings but also from the formation of Chinese words. This is because the earliest period of Chinese history is also the period when Chinese writing developed. It is only when writing is developed that history can be written down. From a study of Chinese writing, we know that the early Chinese had the right knowledge about God. They also had an idea on how to have a right relationship with God. They did not depend on their own righteousness but offered animal sacrifices to symbolically atone for their sins. We know this from the Chinese character for righteousness 義 consists of me 我 covered under the…

https://youtu.be/mw4iP4fbYd4 Transcript of the video IntroductionThe following are the hindrances to Chinese coming to know Jesus:They believe that Christianity is a foreign religion.They believe that Buddhism and Taoism are the original religions of China and should therefore be followed.These are the lies that need to be exposed so that the Chinese can come to know Jesus. Buddhism and Taoism were not the original religions of China.Buddhism is a religion that started in India, not China. Buddha was an Indian born at about 560 B.C. He searched for wisdom in the Hindu Scriptures but could not find something that satisfied him. Finally, he rejected them and founded another religion. Buddhism was introduced to China only in first century A.D. by Buddhist monks who travelled to China from India. It did not…