Some believe that Chinese characters hold clues to the Christian Bible
Some Biblical and secular scholars have observed correspondences between the composition of contemporary and ancient Chinese characters and symbols and stories in the Christian Bible. Since Chinese pictographs contain several images, a reading of the meaning of these is believed to tell the Biblical story of Genesis and reveal connections with Christian concepts of sacrifice and humility
The Chinese System of Writing
The Chinese system of writing uses characters (hanzi) which originally represented people, places and things. These pictures have become increasingly stylized, and characters have been combined to express new concepts, abstract ideas and things. The components of these complex characters, when read individually along with the general meaning, appear to tell the story of the Biblical book of Genesis.
Chinese Characters and the Bible
Chinese missionary C H Kang and medical pathologist Ethel Nelson first observed correspondences between Chinese characters and the Bible in 1976. They claimed that when the components of Chinese characters are read individually, they correspond to events in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. The character for "forbidden," for example, contains the elements "tree" plus "tree" and "god." According to Kang and Nelson, this refers to God's forbidding Adam and Eve to eat from two trees in the Biblical Garden of Eden.
