Did you know the emperor of China at this time also functioned as the high priest? He has to sacrifice an ox at the Temple of Heaven. If his sacrifice is accepted, the entire nation enjoys blessings. Not much different from the function of the high priest in the Old Testament. Christ is both a King AND a High Priest. Is there no correlation to this dual function of the emperor mirroring this Biblical model? Also really interesting is the application of red paper on the lintel and posts of doors and openings in houses during Chinese New Year. Isn't that a "corrupted form" of applying the Passover blood over the lintel and posts? The Passover happened just before the Israelite crossed over the Red Sea. Chinese people "cross over" to the New Year in similar way. Too many clues of Chinese distant past, worshiping a Judeo-Christian God.
@@halodroidz wow never thought my mind would keep getting blown non stop ever since my conversion earlier this year in May. I seem to keep learning new things and it never stops. GOD IS amazing.
@@julie9541 I could give you one more mind blower if you don't know already about it. God has written His holy name in our DNA. Our DNA-strain is made up of 4 nucleid acids - Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine. The so-called sulfuric bridge connects those 4 acids. This bridge appears in every single human out there in a scheme of 10-5-6-5. Meaning after 10 acids the sulfuric bridge appears, then after 5 acids, then after 6 and then after 5. This is a "rhythm" which always continues. This scientific fact can be related to the Hebrew alphabet. Every Hebrew letter has a numeric value, for example the first letter of the alphabet א ("aleph") has a numeric value of 1 or the last letter ת ("tav") has a value of 400. Now if you take the 10 from before you get a י From the 5 you get a ה From the 6 you get a ו From the 5 you get a ה This results into יהו ה which is YHWH, the name of God in the Bible.
@tacotony24 There is a language that the Aramaic came from.... because Koreans who are about 150 yrs older than the arrival of Abraham (they are 4,369 yrs old) knew G_d in Heaven as Abba, also....
@tacotony24 We don't believe in fairies that is milenniums later--- and wrong ppl grp --UK We were the first to believe in One G-d Abba. You are confused and should study a lot more to even have an opinion.
True! Then, tramsumted to AMA in modern day language. We also have other jewish words "pa(mana)" meaning inheritance in the vernacular. From mana meaning bread from God in the story of Moses in the desert. Love that.
What a blessing thank you for this incredible documentary it truly shows that our Lord continues to reveal himself to his people from eons past into today and will continue to do so in the future
+mary anne - Before the Spanish colonized the Philippines we had many gods/goddesses but we only had one supreme creator his name is (bathala) who created the universe and if you follow him with all your heart you would go to "kaluwalhatian/heaven" but if you sin or defy him you would be banished to "kasamaan/badness/hell"...he also has an enemy called (sitan) not to be confused with satan but they basically are the same, sitan tempts people to sin so that he could take their souls to (Kasmaan/badness/hell).
The border sacrifice. The border is the boundary between Heaven and Earth, to the One God, the Father of Heaven and Earth... the Oatriarch of your spirit to mirror a father of your body. The 3rd level of heaven... that room was made "almost" perfect, not to be a replacement for heaven. They were also taught a sacred creation story on a board there that is now gone. The bull sacrifice represented the great sacrifice of the one connection... Jesua. But they pray to the Father.... through the Son, not both.
@@tuvoca825 "Our Father in Heaven" is how the Lord himself taught prayer to be done. The Trinitarian theology of adding "Jesus" and "Holy Spirit" is only something done in Christendom, in Western and Eastern Roman theology, that I would challenge as false religion, man made, a state government religion, that quite literally executed Apostles, and used their bones as "sacred relics" on public display in he earliest basilicas in Asia Minor, Constantinople, and the Eastern Roman Empire. There are formulaic prayers in Rites of Zhou etc however I have not studied this area deep enough to thoroughly understand these archaic old prayers. What I do know is that the concept of "Jesus" while not named as such is addressed by various titles synonymous to biblical ones, particularly those of the PERSON of God/Yahweh, like the "image of a man" or the anonymous "angel" that appears in various parts of Scripture. e.g. Nebuchadezzar's furnace, the angel in the field who changed Jacob's fate forever, the "man" who wrestled with Jacob on the hill at Peniel, the "angel of the Lord" seen by Manoah and his wife in Judges 13 who they later realised/suspected was "God" himself. These are some of the titles for the Lord Jesus Christ that I have identified in the Chinese Classics: ⁃ 養生主 Zhuangzi, Joeng Sang Zyu - "Nourishing the Lord of Life - 萬歲爺 Maan Seoi Je - "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" - 天君 Tiānjūn, Tian Gwan -the "Prince of Heaven" or "Lord of Heaven" - 天尊 Tiānzūn, Tian Zeon -the "Heavenly Venerable" - 君世主 Gwan Sai Zyu -"Sovereign Lord (of the) World" (Song History) or "Monarch of the World" - 天德王 Tin Dak Wong -"Heaven Ethics-morality-virtue King" (Song History) Can you tell me more about the "sacred creation story on a board"? Where can more information about this be found?
Good question regarding the BCE and the CE. The reason is simple. This documentary is addressed to Chinese people, and especially college educated non-Christian Chinese people. The designations of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini = Year of the Lord) are western designations based on Christianity. Even in U.S. colleges BCE and CE are now used in History classes. I personally use BC and AD, but I hope to meet my audience where they are, using words and terms that they understand. Thanks for asking.
Hi Pastor Ray. So good to see you in this video. I can see why you are the perfect pastor to contribute to this "His"story! I missed you my pastor and the days back at Mandarin Baptist Church of Pasadena, Arcadia, CA. I was sad to see that building I was baptized in taken down. Pray that all is well for you and your loved ones. God bless you, my Pastor.
To all the nay-sayers... Take a look at any of the many TH-cam videos which explain the connection between the Chinese written language and the Genesis account. Furthermore, consider the "three wise men" who were from the east, or the Orient, who traveled to visit Jesus at birth. Finally, consider that just like the video points out, the Chinese are not the only ones who have creation, flood, or Babel stories that are strangely similar to the accounts in the bible. For example: The Papago of Arizona: After a flood, the Great Spirit and Montezuma restocked the earth with men and animals. Montezuma became prideful and brought evil into the world when he rebelled against the Great Mystery by making the people build him a very tall house. The great mystery warned the people by raising the sun in the sky, which cooled the earth. He destroyed Montezuma's tower with an earthquake and changed the language of the people so that they could no longer understand the animals or other tribes. The Mikir of Burma: In the old days, mighty giants ruled over the earth. They sought to conquer heaven so they built a tower to reach the skies. Fearing the giants would take over, the gods confounded their speech and scattered them across the world. The Choctaw of Southern United States: The first people wondered what the sky was like, so they decided to build a tower of rocks that would touch the heavens. After the wind destroyed their first two attempts, the people slept next to the tower on the third night. The tower was blown over again, and the rocks landed on the people. When they pushed the rocks away, they were surprised to discover that they could no longer understand each other because they no longer spoke the same language.
Or consider the Wise men of Babylon after Daniel. Daniel was a Eunich, no children, rich and powerful. The gifts were for the Anointing oil, and gold to buy the rest of the ingredients. Messiah and Christ mean anointing.
There are two possible explanations here. 1. Human communities independently created similar stories to explain natural phenomena as well as supernatural stories. 2. Stories traveled with their human hosts to various destinations changing and adapting as they responded to the social and physical environment. The more likely explanation of the wise men is that they were astrologers who came from Persia and would be familiar with the teachings of Daniel. Historians claim Persian military leaders of ancient times found artwork that looked like drawings of Persians that encouraged them to be lenient with the people.
... Ignorance knows no bound. Floods are a common theme in a lot of cultures, because many civilizations were built around agriculture, which were heavily influenced by flood cycles. Human cultures across time faced a lot of similar hardships so there's lot of recurring themes in their mythologies. This doesn't mean that someone everyone is a secretly worshipping the same "Christian God". Think before you spout nonsense.
Thank you for your observation regarding syncretism. Let me point out the fact that syncretism seeks to blend two religions into some form of hybrid that is supposedly acceptable to adherents of both religions. For example, in Brazil you would find people who go to Candomble worship (a type of Houdu) on Saturday nights where they allow themselves to be possessed "ridden" by spirits. Then on Sunday they go to Catholic Mass and worship the saints. Each of the various Candomble spirits are equivalent to one of the Catholic saints in these worshipers minds. This video does quite the opposite. The Apostle Paul's speech before the Areopagus in Athens (Acts chapter 17) makes clear that the One Creator God allowed their worship in ignorance, but now calls all men to repent and believe on the Son he sent and approved by the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. This is not syncretism. However, God had put evidences of who He is within every culture and within everyone's heart so that they might seek Him and find Him. For anyone interested, you can read excellent discussion of this subject in the books "From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" by Ruth A. Tucker, and in the book "Peace Child" by Don Richardson -- both were missionaries to foreign cultures. For further (and much more scholarly) work as pertains to China and Shangdi, read the scholarly book "Faith of Our Fathers" by Chan Kei Thong, which was a major resource for this video. Finally, as to the very prevalent argument today that one religion is as valid before God as any other. Such a belief is calling Jesus Christ the Son of God and my Savior a liar or a lunatic. He said of himself, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6). Sounds pretty exclusive to me. And that is why Christians throughout history have surrendered their lives to spread the Good News. If Jesus Christ is the only way, then from the bottom of our hearts we plead with people to look to Christ, believe in Him, repent of sin and be born again of the Holy Spirit. We warn people because we love people. One last point: If I am wrong and all paths lead to God, then I don't have anything to worry about. I risk nothing by being wrong. We are all going to be just fine. But, if Jesus is the Only way to salvation and eternal life, then those who reject God's gift of salvation are lost, and will be eternally separated from God. The Pharisees once came to Jesus and asked what they must do to perform the works of the Father. "Jesus replied, 'This is the work of God, to believe on the One He has sent," (John 6:29)
Well said. The Bible contains the Word of God. We all nations must obey his Salvation Plan the same way Noah obeyed him. Jesus is the only one who saves. Acts 4:11-12, Mathew 1:20-22, Osea 12:4; Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:38; and so on. God bless you all.
One question. As you said Jesus came to spread the good news but then you had the birth of Islam claiming to be the final words of God. Its crazy how deception keeps creeping in by the enemy to confuse. Why did God allow Satan to spread Islam through Mohammed their prophet?
@@julie9541 I did not state such. But be aware that I have seen commercials on this video espousing Islam. I do not control what commercials go on my videos; I do not monetize my channel, so that others may monetize if I accidentally use copyrighted material. In answer to your final question, God gives mankind freedom of choice and will. This also includes freedom to believe lies. Satan takes advantage of this freedom to spread false teachings. He has blinded the minds of unbelievers to that they cannot see the light of the glory of the (good news) of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:4)
This explains everything pretty well... How the world worshipped God before the fallen angels came and forced our ancestors into submission and ignorance... Great job guys and praise be to The Father,The Son... And The Holy Spirit.
Man, the moment you realize what makes the Bible unique... And how it was preserved... Through thousands of years... You'll be appreciative of the history that goes along with it...
@@wg6431 Not exactly. It's a cosmological pictogram. The addition of "di" 帝 to emperor's titles was introduced after the death of the Qin Shi Huang 秦始皇in 210 BC, posthumously by his followers or imperial cult. > An asterism joining three stars of Ursa Major with three of Ursa Minor, together with Thuban and Kochab. Around 2000 BCE the three top-to-bottom lines would have crossed at the north celestial pole, where the god 帝 dwelt (Pankenier, 2004). In the way that Christ "rode on a donkey" (2 donkeys: mother and cold donkey), a cosmological metaphor or allegory for the "donkeys" in the constellation Ursa Minor, "Shangdi" particular the "di" 帝 part is a reference to the North Star that sits above Ursa Minor and is the highest place in "heaven" or "Highest Heaven" ie the "Highest Lord" or Lord on High, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. -- Similar occurrences in Scripture mirror imagery/ideas in astrological movements. Apocalyptic prophecies in Revelation are full of these. -- e.g. the "Lord on High" as "yehova marom" (בַּמָּרוֹם יְהוָה) in Psalm 93:4-5. > The character's first attested use is for “God of Heaven”; it was later used as a title for emperors. Shuowen erroneously interprets the character to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *teːɡs) : semantic 丄 (“up; above”) + phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs). en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B8%9D The "帝 means emperor" thing really is a modern misconception. If you look back in history, none of the earliest kings ever elevated themselves to "di" 帝 or a god status. Even Qin Shi Huang did not refer to himself as a 帝, despite his tyrannical megalomania and bloodlust. This was not the norm before him and would have been considered blasphemous to attribute deification status to a man. -- Also, Qin Shi Huang had descent from Qin State 秦國, a Central Asian kingdom which means he wasn't exactly the same as the other Chinese in China at the time, and his first military target was against the early Song Kingdom 宋國 which for certain had ties to "Israel" via the Kaifeng Steles. I am unclear yet if it that period was a mass inter-clan war or an infiltration by marriage followed by betrayal from within. You'll also find that much of the Chinese religious practices and characteristics have the same quirks as David's own personal behaviour, good and bad, as the Zhou dynasty left during the late Davidic or Solomonic eras. The imperial harem for instance was numerous times the size of Solomon's and the logic behind it followed precedence in the same way that Solomon inherited a harem, normalised by David's choices/behaviour.
SHAND DI is taken from the name of the Emperor SHANG of China who reigned China during the Shang Dynasty! Just like ALLAH..., SHANG DI is a FALSE god of the Chinese! The Chinese Christians should worship YAHWEH instead of worshiping the name of a dead Emperor of China! To the Chinese during the reign of the SHANG Emperor, he was a "god". Whenever an Emperor passed away, he is automatically deified as 'god" and Shang Di happened to be the CHIEF of all the gods of the Chinese! Plain and SIMPLE! Satan knows how to deceive humanity! If man thinks that worships to Shang Di saves, then the same shall be applied to the Allah worshipers, Lucifer worshipers, including the followers of the Jewish religion called Judaism and that represents more than 70% of humanity today. Doesn't that contradict the prophetic words of YESHUA HAMASHIACH in Matthew 7:13-14??? BTW, what did YESHUA say about PAGAN RITUALS?? Did He allow that or He CONDEMNED ritual worships??? Man is treading on a damnable ground here!!
For all those wondering. Yes, there is a Mandarin Chinese language version of THE SACRED MEANING OF CHINA'S ALTAR OF HEAVEN. You can find it on the Videoparables channel, but here is the direct link: th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html
Yes, the producer is very familiar with the subject matter. He attends a Mandarin Baptist Church full of Chinese Christians who have come to a saving knowledge of the one Creator God of all people. The main points of the documentary are all given in fuller detail in the book FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: GOD IN ANCIENT CHINA by Chan Kei Thong, a prominent university professor and scholar in mainland China.
Actualy Shang Di was spoken and written differently in Cantonese,sounded more like El Shaddai. But it can still be connected since the sea between nowadays United States Coorperation and Asia was much smaller,there was more land to walk over the pass..
Even the of the Chinese language glorifies the one true God. For example the word "create" in Chinese is a mixture of the words "dust" "breath of mouth" "alive" and "to walk". Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. -Genesis 2: 7 The God of the Bible is the one true God that the Chinese language is inspired by. He is the God of the whole world, including you and me. Here is what He requires of us if we want to enter into His kingdom someday. Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -John 14: 6 Whoever believes in Jesus has eternal life, but whoever rejects Jesus will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. -John 3: 36 Believe in Jesus and you will be saved. Then read the Bible, pray to God and obey Him. I hope you will consider the great importance of your eternal soul.
Yes, very interesting. To create is 創造 cong zou, meaning "to begin to make". The first character 創 cong contains a 丶zyu in the centre, like the yod in Hebrew representing the hand or work of God. Alongside it, just below, is 艮 gan, the "seventh" trigram, meaning divine perfection, and the character is the picture of a man looking back: 目 (“eye”) + 人 (“person”) showing a person looking back (Ji Xusheng, 2004). Hence man was made after the rest of creation. Then it spells 人良 jan loeng "man (is) good, virtuous, respectable", which is 倉 cong meaning "granary; berth; sea", like the imagery of having children like sand in the seashore, or metaphors like the "seed" of Adam, etc. The Chinese CUV, however just says 造 cou, e.g. 神造 san cou "God made". Which is a 辶 walking radical and carrying a 告 gou, to "tell, announce, inform; accuse". > The word "create" in Chinese is a mixture of the words "dust" "breath of mouth" "alive" and "to walk". What word was this?
Absolutely beautiful video. Honestly I suspected something like this was true after seeing a video about the Nestorian Christian Stone discovered in China
@@richardrichard5621 Jesus is buda reason why his teachings of carpentry are so useful in Japan and China all over Asia you gonna see the pagodas made whit mason level knowledge of architecture and cutting wood the ones who manipulate the Bible for they earnings are the ones to blame
If buddhist pepole are fighting long time ago thise time buddhism is world biggest religion my pepole are not fighting for religion many muslim and cristens are fighting for religion im happy in buddhism i loved buddhism
Alan Tamang, Christianity doesn't teach violence or killing non christian but to respect everyone. Christianity don't teach things like jihad of Muslims.
History of the Bible Timeline • Creation - B.C. 2000 - Originally, the earliest Scriptures are handed down from generation to generation orally. • Circa B.C. 2000-1500 - The book of Job, perhaps the oldest book of the Bible, is written. • Circa B.C. 1500-1400 - The stone tablets of the Ten Commandments are given to Moses at Mount Sinai and later stored in the Ark of the Covenant. • Circa B.C. 1400-400 - The manuscripts comprising the original Hebrew Bible (39 Old Testament books) are completed. The Book of the Law is kept in the tabernacle and later in the Temple beside the Ark of the Covenant. Confucius No Gods , No Devil 563-479 BCE China No Abrahamic religion in China Loa Tzu No Gods, No Devil 600 BCE China No Abrahamic religion in China Buddha 500 B.C.E. Alexander the great IV 336-323 The Greek Gods Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hestia, Hermes, Demeter, and Poseidon. gods • Circa B.C. 300 - All of the original Old Testament Hebrew books have been written, collected, and recognized as official, canonical books. • Circa B.C. 250-200 - The Septuagint, a popular Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (39 Old Testament books), is produced. The 14 books of the Apocrypha are also included. • Jesus 6-30 A.D. • Circa A.D. 45-100 - Original 27 books of the Greek New Testament are written. • Circa A.D. 140-150 - Marcion of Sinope's heretical "New Testament" prompted Orthodox Christians to establish a New Testament canon. • Circa A.D. 200 - The Jewish Mishnah, the Oral Torah, is first recorded. • Circa A.D. 240 - Origen compiles the Hexapla, a six-columned parallel of Greek and Hebrew texts. • Circa A.D. 305-310 - Lucian of Antioch's Greek New Testament text becomes the basis for the Textus Receptus. • Circa A.D. 312 - Codex Vaticanus is possibly among the original 50 copies of the Bible ordered by Emperor Constantine. It is eventually kept in the Vatican Library in Rome. • A.D. 367 - Athanasius of Alexandria identifies the complete New Testament canon (27 books) for the first time. • A.D. 382-384 - Saint Jerome translates the New Testament from original Greek into Latin. This translation becomes part of the Latin Vulgate manuscript. • A.D. 397 - Third Synod of Carthage approves the New Testament canon (27 books). • A.D. 390-405 - Saint Jerome translates the Hebrew Bible into Latin and completes the Latin Vulgate manuscript. It includes the 39 Old Testament books, 27 New Testament books, and 14 Apocrypha books. • Buddha 500 BCE • A.D. 500 - By now the Scriptures have been translated into multiple languages, not limited to but including an Egyptian version (Codex Alexandrinus), a Coptic version, an Ethiopic translation, a Gothic version (Codex Argentus), and an Armenian version. Some consider the Armenian to be the most beautiful and accurate of all ancient translations. • A.D. 600 - The Roman Catholic Church declares Latin as the only language for Scripture. • A.D. 680 - Caedmon, English poet and monk, renders Bible books and stories into Anglo Saxon poetry and song. • A.D. 735 - Bede, English historian and monk, translates the Gospels into Anglo Saxon. • A.D. 775 - The Book of Kells, a richly decorated manuscript containing the Gospels and other writings, is completed by Celtic monks in Ireland. • Circa A.D. 865 - Saints Cyril and Methodius begin translating the Bible into Old Church Slavonic. • A.D. 950 - The Lindisfarne Gospels manuscript is translated into Old English. • Circa A.D. 995-1010 - Aelfric, an English abbot, translates parts of Scripture into Old English. • Genghis Khan . 1162 - August 18, 1227) United all religion
I believe that most human being naturally has an indescribable inner sixth sense of a one supreme being or deity. A Creator that love us impeccably. Including, ancient lands.
I believe that too. It’s like a hole that demands to be filled with something meaningful. I’ve wondered if the Lord gave us the pineal gland for this. No true peace or rest without Jesus Christ.
I belive that God works in mysterious ways and China is on his to do board. I am the way, the truth, and the life was said by jesus. The way translates to tao, the truth is he was sent by god, and the life is his promise of life after death. Culminating into John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not Parrish but have everlasting life. These titles are almost like they were a revelation in themselves.
It is mentioned in the video that the Chinese are descendants of Shem. Which line of Shem are they from (Joktan, Lot etc)? Elsewhere I read that the Chinese are descended from Ham (through the line of Sin, Cannan) or from Japhaeth (through Kittim). Please clarify as I am thoroughly confused. Thanks
Thank you for your question. Let me direct you to Genesis 10:29-30. The sons of Joktan all settled in the eastern hill country. These descendants of Shem are the only ones mentioned in the Bible as migrating to the east. We know that the Cushites migrated into the middle east to become the Canaanites and further down into Africa and then curving around to occupy the Indian Ocean regions. The sons of Japheth went primarily north towards Russia and then west to populate Europe. The descendants of Shem not only settled the Euphrates region, they moved east into Asia. Here is a very helpful website to study the subject: www.eifiles.cn/oo-en.htm
Thanks for the documentary which let us know about great China. But there is a great fault that BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA. THE TRUTH IS BUDDHA WAS BORN IN NEPAL. How come these great scholars did not know the truth or they dont know about Nepal country.
Here is the link to the Mandarin Chinese language version. th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html If you have not done so already, you may wish to check our other videos on the Videoparables channel.
th-cam.com/video/DA-AkJzpKmg/w-d-xo.html The above video, especially points to the ancient Chinese written characters, evidencing Biblical events. also in the second installment of the video: th-cam.com/video/g72Mb8wEdcI/w-d-xo.html he posits that the wise men who came from the east to honour the birth of Jesus Christ came from China: th-cam.com/video/g72Mb8wEdcI/w-d-xo.html recorded also in the Han Dynasty of China were signs in Heaven which he posits were of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ: th-cam.com/video/g72Mb8wEdcI/w-d-xo.html
In ancient China, Chinese worship Heaven (GOD). Since emperor Qing during warrior states , two dragons came to the land (evil spirits ), people started to worship emperor / people /power / money / dragons/ other religions.
Why are you using "BCE" and "CE"? Besides being vague "common era", It's foolish to use these because it's still using the same mark in time, the Birth of Christ.
B.C.E is before Christ existed Or B.C before Christ C.E. where the years Christ existence and A.D. is After death Sometimes they use this to explain with 2,000 b.c v.s. 2,000 a.d. because they are actually talking 2,000 years b.c. and they don't want that to be confused with a.d.
Interesting when you consider the medicine wheel (present in almost every Indian tribe) the colors are always black, white, red, and yellow representing all the races of the world and is circular shaped.
The scientists almost 100% sure that we human started in Africa, but they have problems to explain why we all look so different? No one knows actually how they looked like few thousands years ago, all brown, black what we defined as semite or like we know from Hollywood, white or according to our logic how they must look like? Every believers accept that ELOHIM could count the number of our hairs (amazing, you all should try) and so on and say: "For ELOHIM, everything in possible". BUT if comes in combination with sciences, we tend to limit HIS abililty and power. Many started to believe science more than HIS words (science so far I learn in my life is also not fact, but 'believe', just theories which we rewrite often many times). HOW if HE injected few different DNAs to create HIS own people? Even for a scientist is this possible (later?). Is HE less capable than scientists? After finished our study, many of us think we know everything, then we dig deeper and found out, more questions than answers und must humble yourself. Most scientists with their theories often so arrogant to sell their believes as facts (incl. evolution theory) . This topic is difficult for Chinese to accept, also for many other Asian countries due to colonialisation in the past. They consider the Bible and Christianity as tools to control them (which pity in many instances true). Some others can't accept if it is the truth and considering only their own race as GOD's creation. No one knows actually the 100% truth, we all know bit of whole puzzle. Shalom
Charles Darwin is a theorist who wrote that fake history. He didn't believe in God, he was an atheist like the Chinese people. He made it up, the story of evolution. We did not come from Africa. It's full of b.s..
When people say Chinese, they mostly refer to Han Chinese, you need to know the difference between Han Chinese and Manchus, our culture is very different. Stop using Manchu picture to represent Chinese! Manchus are nomadic race which we Han Chinese fought for thousands of years, using Manchus to represent Chinese is like using Mongols to represent Chinese, which is ridiculous.
The Manchus weren't nomadic and in fact had their own state. They were among the states that formed after the collapse of the Mongol empire and specifically the Yuan dynasty.
Wait a second Mongolians and Chinese aren't the same? Does this mean that Koreans and Chinese aren't the same and Japanese and Chinese aren't the same? I thought these terms were just interchangeable?
@Jacky Phantom oh sorry Jacky I was actually kind of trolling I didn't expect anyone to answer on this because it's like over a year old and it's kind of not true but yeah I know there's a difference between Japanese Korean and Chinese and Mongolian Tibetan and several other branches off of the mongoloid genetic tree line as it was put in genetic terms a long time ago although they've kind of abandon that term because it's sort of unethical but you know I have to say it's quite surprising that you actually approach this with a very non discerned Manor and actually meant to correct me instead of just arguing and insult my intelligence like I was waiting for somebody to do I really cannot argue with you at this point or troll you I kind of just feel like it would be an ass sort of thing to do,you're too good of a person so... Yeah
@Jacky Phantom I mean... it's nothing particularly new to me. throughout history we've seen this kind of Mono-ethic behavior from all groups of race and society and culture, I would imagine that the Chinese would have such a ideology of such nature considering their transition to Communism or at least pseudo- Communism for that matter, and it makes sense that they are very much against Japan considering Japan's history with China but I mean this is just the way world of man works we're all sort of capitalistic by heart wanting to have it all
@@richardrichard5621 Jesus pbuh is not dead,he will come back and fight the Anti Christ,then live untill he pbuh goes to Heaven according to The Quran. After that Judgement Day is coming soon..
Most every culture believes in a supreme deity that created all things and the story usually always starts with how this "God" creating the world. The funny things is that 99.99999% of the people are just followers and not true believers. For simplicity, let us assume their is one powerful being (whatever name you call it in your culture) - I have asked these few questions to a head priest man in my culture that believes there is only one great God and he created all things. 01. Why did God even create this world if he is the all powerful because if I was that God I sure wouldn't create inferior beings? 02. Why God, a perfect being, created a crappy world, worlds, and universe? 03. How come God being a perfect being created imperfect beings? In the case of the Christian God, how come he created Adam and Eve and Eve was still able to be deceived by the snake (devil) to eat the apple. This prove God created an imperfect being. And so many other questions that the priest couldn't answer. Lets take the Christian God as an example - this is not an argument against the Christian God or any God but based on how people believe in their own scriptures. So the Christian God created an imperfect world and because Eve ate the apple, people are born sinners. Then this God sends his own and only son to clean up the mess that he made. Makes no sense at all. If God is perfect, all creation is perfect no matter how strong evil. The point I am making applies to all cultures who say their God is the only true God. In the case of my culture, we have a similar story. In the very end, if those who believe in our God they will be saved and everyone else would die. This means all our Gods still have outflows like what the Buddha said. The Buddha said Gods are very powerful beings but they still have outflows, meaning they still have hate, love, mistakes, and many other faults in smaller quantities. Why would an all powerful God even chose to say if you believe in me you will be saved and those who doesn't will be killed. A God that is partial is a being that still has outflows.
Was there anything in the Shang Di religion that spoke of a coming Perfect Sacrifice? A Son? A Saviour? This was beautiful to see; God was not silent before Abraham . He always has a reserved remnant. Just as Melchizedek appeared to bless Abraham .
To my knowledge, there was no direct reference to a perfect sacrifice or Savior, only indirect allusions. But that should not be surprising because the Savior was promised through the seed of Abraham, and that is why the Old Testament prophecies did speak of a perfect substitute.
Again... I am not against the idea that there were believers in ancient China 2500 years before Christ. Just to clarify... What I am saying is the difference between natural and special revelation... Between saving faith and not.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Rucelle. Every one of your comments is correct, to my understanding. And you are correct that Christ Jesus is the only Way, Truth, and Light for us today. Were there people saved before Christ came and became the perfect sacrifice. Yes, of course. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the Old Testament saints looked "forward" to the perfect sacrifice, not knowing all the details, but trusting by faith. Can we be certain that there were Chinese who were saved prior to the gospel being fulfilled? I'm not sure, but I would hope so. It all depends upon what they believed and acted upon according to the light they were given. The generation after the flood of Noah's day certainly had enough knowledge of God and how he saved them from the flood. The animal sacrifices would have rightly been offered to Him. But over time, as always happens, the light is distorted by Satan. The early Chinese seem to have held onto the proper meaning of the sacrifices and the God they were honoring for the longest time, though their meaning too has become lost to the Chinese people. Our hope for the video is that the Chinese people will once again recognize the Supreme God of their earliest history who is now calling them to salvation through the perfect sacrifice of his One and Only Son. Thank you again for your thoughtful comments.
@videoparables To be honest... What the Jews had that the Chinese didn't have was the written Word of God. The prophecies and the prophets... Was it a guarantee to salvation when you posses God's Word? It depends... But you're already at the front door... John chapter 3 mentions Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness... And by just by the fact that Jesus Himself quoted John 3, it speaks volumes. God expects the Old Testament saints after Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the united and divided kingdom to be saved in the same way... Now, you might argue that the accounts of the serpent being lifted up in Numbers, as was quoted by Jesus, only refers to physical salvation... But... Not entirely correct... Jesus' biblical interpretation would state otherwise... John chapter 3 also includes spiritual salvation... Eternal life... The context of John chapter is regeneration... So, there you go... God's written Word or revelation is also a necessity...
Very Elaborate Illustration. Going Back To Humanity's Roots -- Where This Has Been Recorded. Learnt Quite A Bit Of Chinese Language, Culture, And Lexicon. Tough But Good. Will Listen To This Many Times. . . . . . .
There is a Chinese language version of this video, but it might be blocked in mainland China because of censorship. Here is the link th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html It may also be viewable on the "Movies and Docs" page of videoparables.org
this makes me wonder why Christianity is exclusive. it makes me realize that there is such a thing as religious exclusivity which brings up the question, why is exclusive? why can't religion be, inclusive/universale?
Interesting. Too bad you depict Jesus as a long-haired European instead of the manly Jew he was and is. The long hair is a feminine trait which is a reference to the AntiChrist who is according to certain devil-worshippers' symbolism of him, androgynous, which of course means a mix of male and female. See Baphomet. The Bible itself says that the Anti Christ is not interested in women. "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all." Jesus' blood payed for all of the evil I've ever done; for every time I was selfish. The proof is that the Creator cares about me, since he gave me life, meaning that he will not let me perish, but save me, and so he had to die for me. I know that there is a Creator because order comes from intelligence, especially great order. Atheists on the internet who don't show their face tell me there is no God, and so I tell them I therefore should doubt their existence, since according to their paradigm where order does not have to come from intelligence, their messages could have been due to a cat walking on a keyboard! They mock that notion as absurd, yet do not realize that they are mocking themselves!
I agree that there is no evidence that Jesus had long hair, but most of the Christian art of Europe depicted him with long hair because the vows of the Nazarite (which is why Samson had long hair) were confused with Jesus being a Nazarene. His being a Nazarene has to do with his coming from Nazareth. The early church of Europe was confused by the terminology. Please understand that the video producer had to use such artwork depicting Jesus as was available.
Yes ,im Buddhist to Jeevan , but the Christian Theologycal said we Asian are from seth , ham , yafet , so Gautama Buddha is from Adam and Eve too due to theological
At 22:52, Reverend Chung says that the Chinese are, like the Jews, descended from Shem. That is incorrect. The Chinese are descended from Ham through his grandson, Sin, the son of Canaan. That Chinese are descended from Sin is backed by the fact that China was known as 'Sina' to the ancient Romans, from whom the term 'Sino' was derived.
Great video. Who is the copyright holder as I have a question about requesting permission to copy. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it very much. Blessings in Christ's name
@@videoparables Thank you for your reply. However this video must have a producer and a copyright owner. The Video clearly states that people can copy and share it provided its for free. So where does that leave me? I wish to use it to forward the Kingdom and not to charge. So that means its ok according to the producers since that is what they give right to embedded in the video right?
@@BibleStudyMadeEasy You are communicating with the producer (Videoparables.org to see all our other videos). You are free to copy the link and send the video to whomever you wish, or to download it and show it at your church, Bible study, or wherever you wish. The only restriction is that you cannot use it commercially or in any way to make money. It is freely received and freely given. I trust that you will make use of it for God's glory.
“Working to give the people justice and paying respect to the spirits, but keeping away from them, you can call wisdom.（務民之義、敬鬼神而遠之、可謂知矣。）” 6:22 Yong Ye - Analects of Confucius (In this part, 鬼神can be translated as spirits, while it can also be translated as devil (鬼）and god（神））
At most... What this video is pointing to is what we call "natural revelation". Meaning, through creation, man as endowed with "common grace" can deduce that there is a start... A Creator... And that He is above, He is one and He is holy. The only problem with "natural revelation" is that, it could not save someone from his or her sins...
history is beautiful, but sadly there are people try to erase, dishonor, disrespect, twisted, wont acknowledge if they are not existed and it won't fitted to their desires., they want history will start to them.
This is nothing more than preaching of the torah and christianity. I don't think it's much related to describing the chinese altars as the title may suggests. More than half of the video is describing about christian history than religions in china. The christians I believe are mostly persecuted in China since long when the missionaries came to China and expelled or even killed.
To be more precise... I leave with this statement... When we talk about revelation, to which do we attribute this? To the event in history? Or, to the words that comments along with the event? When you focus on the events only... You get liberal scholarship... When you focus on the words that comments along the events in Scriptures, you get - fundamentalism. I am not using "fundamentalist" as derogatory... In fact, they are heroes in Christendom because at a time when the virgin birth or resurrection were unpopular, it was the fundamentalists who championed these doctrines... Not so with "liberalism" or Christian liberals... That is for all its denotation, a deviation and a derogation... So... In order to be orthodox... You take the Word-Event-Word model of revelation. Because God is the Author... Of course, we could also touch "inspiration" and human authorship... But if you look closely in the events in the Bible... Whenever there is an event, God gives a commentary prior and after the event...
And in the heart of that reason is the "doctrine of total depravity". Total depravity is the condition of man that enables him not to know or obey God due to the original Sin. (capital "s")
Shaang De is the one and only Creator , the first and the last.. we know the message from the one true creator came to all nations. Before Prophet Ibrahim/Mosa ale salam the message came to Prophet Noah ale salam there must be similar prayers does not mean that the Creator belong to some particular nation. there are many prophets between Prophet Ibrahim/Adam ale salam.
Good revelation! Great thank to our Lord of Haven! Amen! All south-east Asian peoples must recognize the Chinese nation in the beginning of God Creation is our ancestor known as Japhet descendants son of Noah who took the path in east direction to popularize this part of world among two others brothers Sem and Cham. Finally, Lord GOD of Haven makes humanity know that it's so accurate that all men living on earth were descendants of Noah descendants of Adam and Eva. By this Holy Revelation, why do we continue to fight and kill each others from now any more! Black, white, yellow, human race are brothers and sisters. It's so clear that the dispute leading to war, master of killing will completely eliminated from earth unless all humanity accept they are born within sin which conducting to death, and do repent and believe in Jesus sacrifice on the cross once for its liberation. GOD bless humanity! Alleluia! Amen
Amazing . I was wondering if the 1st Dynasty worship of shang di was actually handed down to them. from the desendents of Noah son SHEM . Or that the Chinese people are the desendennts of shem and this proves it...
Your misunderstanding of Ancient Taoism is amazing. Ancient Taoism was founded in 6,000 BC, and was, in fact, the first recorded mystic path on earth - thousands of years before the Old Testament of the Christian faith. It is more likely that Christianity emerged from the Taoist teachings
Greggo, Sorry to have to correct you, but you are totally wrong. A simple Internet search on the subject of Taoism will take you to multiple sources that will give you the history of Taoism. It was a philosophy developed under Lao Tzu around 500 BC and codified a couple centuries later as it turned into a religion. The history is explained in the documentary, so I suppose you did not really view the documentary. Fortunately, I do not need to defend what is common knowledge.
Sorry, but you are totally wrong. Lao Tzu was one of the last Taoist Mystics - not the first. I'm well read. I've got over 200 books on Taoism in my personal library. Many of the modern historians are incorrect as well. There is an enormous difference between a Religion and a Spiritual Path. Yes, the Taoist Religion was established after Lao Tzu by the Chinese government; but, that was 6,000 years AFTER the Chinese Taoist Masters (at the Same Level as Jesus Christ) established the Taoist Spiritual Path.
No matter how many riches.or powers any one has no one gains riches or power in the grave! " What profit a man.if he gains the whole world and loses his soul, " said Jesus . No man cometh to the father except by" ME , said Jesus! There's ONE God only in the Bible 🙏 read for your self and discover TRUTH!
This is not any proof that Shang Di is the god of the Israel or Jews. But actuary the proof is on the Chinese Traditional Character that was written. About 400 character shows the biblical stories in the Bible. So that should be topic. But your documentary is not showing these evidence.
MissMooncookie Before the calling of Abraham, all the descendants of Noah are equal before Shang Di eyes. He blessed Shem, Ham and Japheth. So they all were blessed. All could have life eternal if they kept the 7 laws of Noah as instructed in Genesis 9. Through Israel as a nation God will restore all the nations as he divided them in Genesis account, but Israel is his set apart nation not counted among the 70 nations.
@@julie9541 Only what's in Gods word, The Bible, will come to pass (most has already been fulfilled). Physical Israel are not Gods people as a whole, not after Jesus Christ spoke to us some 2000 years ago and his words were written.
Darn good, with some flaws by non-orthodox Chinese & Jewish pastors; and is severely disfigured from 1:33 by adding the Olympian b.s. making the Spirit sado-masochistic. Without this intrusion, the overall thesis seems strong. Too bad the ending leads one to assume the over-thesis might well be mucked up, too.
I am Christian and I believe in this possibility. However, I feel sad that the politics since ancient times has always utilized people's faith in the way that benefits the ruling class. Even this Altar of Heaven was built in the forbidden palace. It represented the ruler's faith but did it represent the faith of the farmers and slaves, also? Why should the ruling class alone have such wisdom to build great things, write smart teachings, and control ordinary people to work, pay tax and kill and die in wars for them. I wish that our faith will be clean and free from all kinds of politics. God is great and holy. And some people always use His name to make money.
1hr and 11 minutes liar and lies !! Jesus was never mentioned to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ,Moses , King David, King Saul , prophets!!! 40 years in the wilderness? Not once mentioned!!!!!! We know he didn’t need to say it because in Isaiah ch 43 to 49 he repeatedly said there is no one beside him, he is the saviour, the redeemer!!!!!!
Andrew, the Chinese did not worship a triune God. They only knew the Almighty Creator God, Shang Di. But neither did the Old Testament Jews worship a triune God. God's plan and the evidences that God is in triunity with the Son and Holy Spirit are found in the O.T. scriptures, but we recognize them only in looking backward from our current revelation through the New Testament scriptures. There is a saying that might be helpful to understanding this, "The Old Testament is the New Testament (God's plan) concealed. The New Testament is the Old Testament (God's plan) revealed." May I suggest reading Romans 16:25-26 and 1 Peter 1:18-21. For an example of the O.T. concealed revelation about Christ's deity see Isaiah 9:6.
actually, they did-- if you look carefully. there is a cloud of Glory, a divine Son of the Divine and Shang Di - they all commune and convene together.
We didn't praying jesus... Dude. We only praying for HIM. GOD who create all thing. The ONE. He is alpha and also omega. We didn't need jesus. We Also have HIS teaching which is the same as ten commandments of God that already teach to us from anciant time in family
ABBA is The Author Origin of HIS Revealed LORD's:WORD's Realm and AlefBet [AlphaBet] ... His Omni-One Logic:Language Breathes Charity:LOVE, Divine Generosity and Generous Fatherhood Shared and Dwelling ... Mindful ... Eternal
The cherubim that cover the arc are your cerebrum, the veil is the arachnid between the dura matter and pia matter of the brain, the third ventricle is the temple, the fiery furnace, Brahmans cave, the arch and arc. It is the BA of the ka BA la. Boat.
Shang Di is a shorter version of Huang Tian Shang Di which means Supreme Ruler of Royal Heaven, since Shang Dynasty. It was during the Ming and Qing dynasties, that the concept of biblical god was changed from Tian Zhu to Shang Di. 😅😅😅
The story of Noah is based on Sumerian mythology. The idea that God used a flood to destroy all life on the planet except for a few humans and a boatload of animals is totally rediculous. That's a phantasy story you tell to children. Yes, there were catastrophic floods in Ages past, but they were not God's efforts to punish mankind.
Nej det er forkert. Undersøg Ron Wyatt han fandt Noas ark i den østlige del af Tyrkiet ved Ararat bjerget. Det er ikke en fantasi historie. Biblen er sand. Herren Jesus Kristus døde for vores synder på korset og genopstod igen og besejrede døden. Indse at du er en synder og indrøm det, åben dit hjerte og kald på Herrens navn. For Gud elskede verden så meget at han gav sin eneste søn så hvem der end tror på ham, ikke skulle dø men have evigt liv.
And that is why... The church is just the recepient of the canon of Scripture, not its arbiter... That is also a source of humility... In hermeneutics or exegesis...
I believe that most human being naturally has an indescribable inner sixth sense of a one supreme being or deity. A Creator that love us impeccably. Including, ancient lands.
I am an American professor of economics. I was in China 12 years. Every Chinese I knew be lived in a spiritual world. All the ones I knew believed in the idea of a higher power, greater than humans. Belonging to a specific religion is good for some people and not for others. I think it is important to care about loving other people.
Junior Lewing Koo, the most remarkable thing is that this ritual owes nothing to Confucianism, Taoism or Buddhism, considered to be the 3 main religions of China. Even today, in front of every Chinese house, you have the Altar To THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
How can we know when someone is behind us without looking back? We don’t have six sense. It is devil and demons who speak to us and we think it’s six sense or it’s our feeling and emotion or uncontrollable thinking… We are not sick or crazy… it is devil and demons who cause those in us and we think we are sick because we have no control,over those harmful thinking, imagination, feeling, and emotion… They are not our thinking, feeling, and imagination They are devil and demons making you think you are bad and harmful and they make you think that they are your thinking, feeling, and emotion and you are bad and they want to cause you to sin so they can destroy you in jail and prison… They work in ways that if you think there is a supernatural world… you are a crazy person… they are powerful but they ain’t smart… If they are smart they would know to stop winning and they wouldn’t intentionally sin since the beginning… They are dumb but with power so they can destroy so you easily… They can see you, they can see you straight through, they can see and they know your thinking, feeling, emotion, and so on… Basically they can you as if you are so clear to them and you are clearer than crystal clear water to them.. while you can;t see them and they gang on you and set you up and control you and so much more… Leave and left it all to god..
@@avecmoi9429 Yes, because Civilization came from the east and not Africa or Europe as you are taught. Everything is copied and plagiarised from China by the Jesuits.
This is by far one of the best documentaries i have watched. Thank you
Me too. Tq admin.
Did you know the emperor of China at this time also functioned as the high priest? He has to sacrifice an ox at the Temple of Heaven.
If his sacrifice is accepted, the entire nation enjoys blessings. Not much different from the function of the high priest in the Old Testament.
Christ is both a King AND a High Priest. Is there no correlation to this dual function of the emperor mirroring this Biblical model?
Also really interesting is the application of red paper on the lintel and posts of doors and openings in houses during Chinese New Year. Isn't that a "corrupted form" of applying the Passover blood over the lintel and posts? The Passover happened just before the Israelite crossed over the Red Sea. Chinese people "cross over" to the New Year in similar way.
Too many clues of Chinese distant past, worshiping a Judeo-Christian God.
And the fact that the China is now the largest christian country I believe is no coincidence.
@@halodroidz wow never thought my mind would keep getting blown non stop ever since my conversion earlier this year in May. I seem to keep learning new things and it never stops. GOD IS amazing.
The Chinese are the Jews of the east...in more ways than one. Married to one...near impossible to speak.
@@julie9541 I could give you one more mind blower if you don't know already about it. God has written His holy name in our DNA.
Our DNA-strain is made up of 4 nucleid acids - Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine. The so-called sulfuric bridge connects those 4 acids. This bridge appears in every single human out there in a scheme of 10-5-6-5. Meaning after 10 acids the sulfuric bridge appears, then after 5 acids, then after 6 and then after 5. This is a "rhythm" which always continues.
This scientific fact can be related to the Hebrew alphabet. Every Hebrew letter has a numeric value, for example the first letter of the alphabet א ("aleph") has a numeric value of 1 or the last letter ת ("tav") has a value of 400.
Now if you take the 10 from before you get a י
From the 5 you get a ה
From the 6 you get a ו
From the 5 you get a ה
This results into יהו ה which is YHWH, the name of God in the Bible.
@@halodroidz United States is largest christian country. Africa is largest christian continent with 685 million Christians
In ancient Philippines prior to Spanish colonization we called him (Abba/Father) (Bathala/God) (Abba Bathala/God the Father).
I appreciate you sharing this ✌️
@tacotony24 phillipines has a hebrew bloodline because of ophir the son of yoktan shems lineage
@tacotony24 There is a language that the Aramaic came from.... because Koreans who are about 150 yrs older than the arrival of Abraham (they are 4,369 yrs old) knew G_d in Heaven as Abba, also....
@tacotony24 We don't believe in fairies that is milenniums later--- and wrong ppl grp --UK We were the first to believe in One G-d Abba. You are confused and should study a lot more to even have an opinion.
True! Then, tramsumted to AMA in modern day language. We also have other jewish words "pa(mana)" meaning inheritance in the vernacular. From mana meaning bread from God in the story of Moses in the desert. Love that.
What a blessing thank you for this incredible documentary it truly shows that our Lord continues to reveal himself to his people from eons past into today and will continue to do so in the future
I'd like to believe that my ancestors worshipped God in Heaven; as in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.
I believe they did with all my soul
+mary anne - Before the Spanish colonized the Philippines we had many gods/goddesses but we only had one supreme creator his name is (bathala) who created the universe and if you follow him with all your heart you would go to "kaluwalhatian/heaven" but if you sin or defy him you would be banished to "kasamaan/badness/hell"...he also has an enemy called (sitan) not to be confused with satan but they basically are the same, sitan tempts people to sin so that he could take their souls to (Kasmaan/badness/hell).
They did.
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The border sacrifice. The border is the boundary between Heaven and Earth, to the One God, the Father of Heaven and Earth... the Oatriarch of your spirit to mirror a father of your body. The 3rd level of heaven... that room was made "almost" perfect, not to be a replacement for heaven. They were also taught a sacred creation story on a board there that is now gone. The bull sacrifice represented the great sacrifice of the one connection... Jesua. But they pray to the Father.... through the Son, not both.
@@tuvoca825 "Our Father in Heaven" is how the Lord himself taught prayer to be done. The Trinitarian theology of adding "Jesus" and "Holy Spirit" is only something done in Christendom, in Western and Eastern Roman theology, that I would challenge as false religion, man made, a state government religion, that quite literally executed Apostles, and used their bones as "sacred relics" on public display in he earliest basilicas in Asia Minor, Constantinople, and the Eastern Roman Empire.
There are formulaic prayers in Rites of Zhou etc however I have not studied this area deep enough to thoroughly understand these archaic old prayers.
What I do know is that the concept of "Jesus" while not named as such is addressed by various titles synonymous to biblical ones, particularly those of the PERSON of God/Yahweh, like the "image of a man" or the anonymous "angel" that appears in various parts of Scripture. e.g. Nebuchadezzar's furnace, the angel in the field who changed Jacob's fate forever, the "man" who wrestled with Jacob on the hill at Peniel, the "angel of the Lord" seen by Manoah and his wife in Judges 13 who they later realised/suspected was "God" himself.
These are some of the titles for the Lord Jesus Christ that I have identified in the Chinese Classics:
⁃ 養生主 Zhuangzi, Joeng Sang Zyu - "Nourishing the Lord of Life
- 萬歲爺 Maan Seoi Je - "Lord of Ten Thousand Years"
- 天君 Tiānjūn, Tian Gwan -the "Prince of Heaven" or "Lord of Heaven"
- 天尊 Tiānzūn, Tian Zeon -the "Heavenly Venerable"
- 君世主 Gwan Sai Zyu -"Sovereign Lord (of the) World" (Song History) or "Monarch of the World"
- 天德王 Tin Dak Wong -"Heaven Ethics-morality-virtue King" (Song History)
Can you tell me more about the "sacred creation story on a board"? Where can more information about this be found?
YHWH will make all hidden and secret things known!
Yes I agree! The only Abba YAHAWAH and his only YAHAWASHI yahawadah🙏🙏☝☝
Truth will come to those that honestly look for it. As time goes, another layer will be revealed. Just as the layers of onion shear it's skin.
Good question regarding the BCE and the CE. The reason is simple. This documentary is addressed to Chinese people, and especially college educated non-Christian Chinese people. The designations of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini = Year of the Lord) are western designations based on Christianity. Even in U.S. colleges BCE and CE are now used in History classes. I personally use BC and AD, but I hope to meet my audience where they are, using words and terms that they understand. Thanks for asking.
BCE = Before Christ Era , CE = AD Christ Era and after
I believe it means before common era and common era.
Hi Pastor Ray. So good to see you in this video. I can see why you are the perfect pastor to contribute to this "His"story! I missed you my pastor and the days back at Mandarin Baptist Church of Pasadena, Arcadia, CA. I was sad to see that building I was baptized in taken down. Pray that all is well for you and your loved ones. God bless you, my Pastor.
To all the nay-sayers... Take a look at any of the many TH-cam videos which explain the connection between the Chinese written language and the Genesis account.
Furthermore, consider the "three wise men" who were from the east, or the Orient, who traveled to visit Jesus at birth.
Finally, consider that just like the video points out, the Chinese are not the only ones who have creation, flood, or Babel stories that are strangely similar to the accounts in the bible. For example:
The Papago of Arizona:
After a flood, the Great Spirit and Montezuma restocked the earth with men and animals. Montezuma became prideful and brought evil into the world when he rebelled against the Great Mystery by making the people build him a very tall house. The great mystery warned the people by raising the sun in the sky, which cooled the earth. He destroyed Montezuma's tower with an earthquake and changed the language of the people so that they could no longer understand the animals or other tribes.
The Mikir of Burma:
In the old days, mighty giants ruled over the earth. They sought to conquer heaven so they built a tower to reach the skies. Fearing the giants would take over, the gods confounded their speech and scattered them across the world.
The Choctaw of Southern United States:
The first people wondered what the sky was like, so they decided to build a tower of rocks that would touch the heavens. After the wind destroyed their first two attempts, the people slept next to the tower on the third night. The tower was blown over again, and the rocks landed on the people. When they pushed the rocks away, they were surprised to discover that they could no longer understand each other because they no longer spoke the same language.
Probably plagiarised....
Or consider the Wise men of Babylon after Daniel. Daniel was a Eunich, no children, rich and powerful. The gifts were for the Anointing oil, and gold to buy the rest of the ingredients. Messiah and Christ mean anointing.
There are two possible explanations here. 1. Human communities independently created similar stories to explain natural phenomena as well as supernatural stories. 2. Stories traveled with their human hosts to various destinations changing and adapting as they responded to the social and physical environment. The more likely explanation of the wise men is that they were astrologers who came from Persia and would be familiar with the teachings of Daniel. Historians claim Persian military leaders of ancient times found artwork that looked like drawings of Persians that encouraged them to be lenient with the people.
... Ignorance knows no bound. Floods are a common theme in a lot of cultures, because many civilizations were built around agriculture, which were heavily influenced by flood cycles. Human cultures across time faced a lot of similar hardships so there's lot of recurring themes in their mythologies. This doesn't mean that someone everyone is a secretly worshipping the same "Christian God". Think before you spout nonsense.
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There’s more historical text to support Jesus than text that debunk him gezzzz !
Are you an atheist . agnostic etc etc ?
Thank you for your observation regarding syncretism. Let me point out the fact that syncretism seeks to blend two religions into some form of hybrid that is supposedly acceptable to adherents of both religions. For example, in Brazil you would find people who go to Candomble worship (a type of Houdu) on Saturday nights where they allow themselves to be possessed "ridden" by spirits. Then on Sunday they go to Catholic Mass and worship the saints. Each of the various Candomble spirits are equivalent to one of the Catholic saints in these worshipers minds.
This video does quite the opposite. The Apostle Paul's speech before the Areopagus in Athens (Acts chapter 17) makes clear that the One Creator God allowed their worship in ignorance, but now calls all men to repent and believe on the Son he sent and approved by the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. This is not syncretism.
However, God had put evidences of who He is within every culture and within everyone's heart so that they might seek Him and find Him.
For anyone interested, you can read excellent discussion of this subject in the books "From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" by Ruth A. Tucker, and in the book "Peace Child" by Don Richardson -- both were missionaries to foreign cultures.
For further (and much more scholarly) work as pertains to China and Shangdi, read the scholarly book "Faith of Our Fathers" by Chan Kei Thong, which was a major resource for this video.
Finally, as to the very prevalent argument today that one religion is as valid before God as any other. Such a belief is calling Jesus Christ the Son of God and my Savior a liar or a lunatic. He said of himself, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6). Sounds pretty exclusive to me. And that is why Christians throughout history have surrendered their lives to spread the Good News. If Jesus Christ is the only way, then from the bottom of our hearts we plead with people to look to Christ, believe in Him, repent of sin and be born again of the Holy Spirit. We warn people because we love people.
One last point: If I am wrong and all paths lead to God, then I don't have anything to worry about. I risk nothing by being wrong. We are all going to be just fine. But, if Jesus is the Only way to salvation and eternal life, then those who reject God's gift of salvation are lost, and will be eternally separated from God.
The Pharisees once came to Jesus and asked what they must do to perform the works of the Father. "Jesus replied, 'This is the work of God, to believe on the One He has sent," (John 6:29)
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Well said. The Bible contains the Word of God. We all nations must obey his Salvation Plan the same way Noah obeyed him. Jesus is the only one who saves. Acts 4:11-12, Mathew 1:20-22, Osea 12:4; Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:38; and so on. God bless you all.
Wow this is amazing. Thank you so much. Beautifully said. I may steal your words to share with non believers as this says a lot.
One question. As you said Jesus came to spread the good news but then you had the birth of Islam claiming to be the final words of God. Its crazy how deception keeps creeping in by the enemy to confuse. Why did God allow Satan to spread Islam through Mohammed their prophet?
@@julie9541 I did not state such. But be aware that I have seen commercials on this video espousing Islam. I do not control what commercials go on my videos; I do not monetize my channel, so that others may monetize if I accidentally use copyrighted material.
In answer to your final question, God gives mankind freedom of choice and will. This also includes freedom to believe lies. Satan takes advantage of this freedom to spread false teachings. He has blinded the minds of unbelievers to that they cannot see the light of the glory of the (good news) of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:4)
This explains everything pretty well... How the world worshipped God before the fallen angels came and forced our ancestors into submission and ignorance... Great job guys and praise be to The Father,The Son... And The Holy Spirit.
Thank you for this great documentary AMEN
Inspiring, eye-opening & beautiful! AMEN
Thank you God Almighty.. Jesus saves!!!!
Jesus is dead like your great grandfather and granny you should worship your children
@@richardrichard5621 Jesus was is and is to come. He is risen.
@@tonn333 It's not just similarities, people are waiting for God's word for salvation. Because salvation is from the Jews, the Jewish Messiah.
@@Rita1962Ahnefeld salvation is from the God not men.
Man, the moment you realize what makes the Bible unique...
And how it was preserved... Through thousands of years... You'll be appreciative of the history that goes along with it...
Shang Di means: Most High God
@Fred Eric Actrually 帝 means emperor，王 means king
@@wg6431 Not exactly. It's a cosmological pictogram. The addition of "di" 帝 to emperor's titles was introduced after the death of the Qin Shi Huang 秦始皇in 210 BC, posthumously by his followers or imperial cult.
> An asterism joining three stars of Ursa Major with three of Ursa Minor, together with Thuban and Kochab. Around 2000 BCE the three top-to-bottom lines would have crossed at the north celestial pole, where the god 帝 dwelt (Pankenier, 2004).
In the way that Christ "rode on a donkey" (2 donkeys: mother and cold donkey), a cosmological metaphor or allegory for the "donkeys" in the constellation Ursa Minor, "Shangdi" particular the "di" 帝 part is a reference to the North Star that sits above Ursa Minor and is the highest place in "heaven" or "Highest Heaven" ie the "Highest Lord" or Lord on High, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. -- Similar occurrences in Scripture mirror imagery/ideas in astrological movements. Apocalyptic prophecies in Revelation are full of these. -- e.g. the "Lord on High" as "yehova marom" (בַּמָּרוֹם יְהוָה) in Psalm 93:4-5.
> The character's first attested use is for “God of Heaven”; it was later used as a title for emperors. Shuowen erroneously interprets the character to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *teːɡs) : semantic 丄 (“up; above”) + phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs).
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The "帝 means emperor" thing really is a modern misconception. If you look back in history, none of the earliest kings ever elevated themselves to "di" 帝 or a god status. Even Qin Shi Huang did not refer to himself as a 帝, despite his tyrannical megalomania and bloodlust. This was not the norm before him and would have been considered blasphemous to attribute deification status to a man. -- Also, Qin Shi Huang had descent from Qin State 秦國, a Central Asian kingdom which means he wasn't exactly the same as the other Chinese in China at the time, and his first military target was against the early Song Kingdom 宋國 which for certain had ties to "Israel" via the Kaifeng Steles. I am unclear yet if it that period was a mass inter-clan war or an infiltration by marriage followed by betrayal from within.
You'll also find that much of the Chinese religious practices and characteristics have the same quirks as David's own personal behaviour, good and bad, as the Zhou dynasty left during the late Davidic or Solomonic eras. The imperial harem for instance was numerous times the size of Solomon's and the logic behind it followed precedence in the same way that Solomon inherited a harem, normalised by David's choices/behaviour.
It's interesting that Shang-Di is phonetically similar to one of the names of God in the Scriptures, namely שַׁדַּי or Shaddai.
I thought the same thing after I watched this! El Shaddai = God Almighty
SHAND DI is taken from the name of the Emperor SHANG of China who reigned China during the Shang Dynasty! Just like ALLAH..., SHANG DI is a FALSE god of the Chinese! The Chinese Christians should worship YAHWEH instead of worshiping the name of a dead Emperor of China! To the Chinese during the reign of the SHANG Emperor, he was a "god". Whenever an Emperor passed away, he is automatically deified as 'god" and Shang Di happened to be the CHIEF of all the gods of the Chinese! Plain and SIMPLE! Satan knows how to deceive humanity! If man thinks that worships to Shang Di saves, then the same shall be applied to the Allah worshipers, Lucifer worshipers, including the followers of the Jewish religion called Judaism and that represents more than 70% of humanity today. Doesn't that contradict the prophetic words of YESHUA HAMASHIACH in Matthew 7:13-14??? BTW, what did YESHUA say about PAGAN RITUALS?? Did He allow that or He CONDEMNED ritual worships??? Man is treading on a damnable ground here!!
Shangdi is in Mandarin, a Beijing dialect. In Classical Chinese, spoken in ancient times it would be 'Shang dai' which is strikingly more similar
All language was one...
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@@mikesamuel4403 counterfeit yet many will believe it.
Most hokkien use the sentence “ ti kong teh tua” aka lord above heaven is greatest
For all those wondering. Yes, there is a Mandarin Chinese language version of THE SACRED MEANING OF CHINA'S ALTAR OF HEAVEN. You can find it on the Videoparables channel, but here is the direct link: th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html
This was super interesting, especially as a Mormon!! Thank you!
Yes, the producer is very familiar with the subject matter. He attends a Mandarin Baptist Church full of Chinese Christians who have come to a saving knowledge of the one Creator God of all people. The main points of the documentary are all given in fuller detail in the book FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: GOD IN ANCIENT CHINA by Chan Kei Thong, a prominent university professor and scholar in mainland China.
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My friend said that girl is hot
Was the speaker a Baptist..
Shang Di just sounds similar to my language in Navajo.... ShànDììn which mean sunshine
Actualy Shang Di was spoken and written differently in Cantonese,sounded more like El Shaddai. But it can still be connected since the sea between nowadays United States Coorperation and Asia was much smaller,there was more land to walk over the pass..
Perhaps Navajo related to ancient chinese by language & ethnicity?
This is awesome! Wouldn't it be amazing if the Chinese and the West united because of faith! We would see each other with different eyes!
Why not? Then Trump will have no problem with Chaina?😜😜
It would also awaken more people perhaps too for Jesus sake.
Even the of the Chinese language glorifies the one true God. For example the word "create" in Chinese is a mixture of the words "dust" "breath of mouth" "alive" and "to walk".
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. -Genesis 2: 7
The God of the Bible is the one true God that the Chinese language is inspired by. He is the God of the whole world, including you and me.
Here is what He requires of us if we want to enter into His kingdom someday.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -John 14: 6
Whoever believes in Jesus has eternal life, but whoever rejects Jesus will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. -John 3: 36
Believe in Jesus and you will be saved. Then read the Bible, pray to God and obey Him.
I hope you will consider the great importance of your eternal soul.
Yes, very interesting.
To create is 創造 cong zou, meaning "to begin to make". The first character 創 cong contains a 丶zyu in the centre, like the yod in Hebrew representing the hand or work of God. Alongside it, just below, is 艮 gan, the "seventh" trigram, meaning divine perfection, and the character is the picture of a man looking back: 目 (“eye”) + 人 (“person”) showing a person looking back (Ji Xusheng, 2004). Hence man was made after the rest of creation. Then it spells 人良 jan loeng "man (is) good, virtuous, respectable", which is 倉 cong meaning "granary; berth; sea", like the imagery of having children like sand in the seashore, or metaphors like the "seed" of Adam, etc.
The Chinese CUV, however just says 造 cou, e.g. 神造 san cou "God made". Which is a 辶 walking radical and carrying a 告 gou, to "tell, announce, inform; accuse".
> The word "create" in Chinese is a mixture of the words "dust" "breath of mouth" "alive" and "to walk".
What word was this?
Absolutely beautiful video.
Honestly I suspected something like this was true after seeing a video about the Nestorian Christian Stone discovered in China
Glory to Jesus
He is dead move on Jesus is the cause of all this fighting over him
@@richardrichard5621 I hope you know Jesus love for you!
@@richardrichard5621 Jesus is buda reason why his teachings of carpentry are so useful in Japan and China all over Asia you gonna see the pagodas made whit mason level knowledge of architecture and cutting wood the ones who manipulate the Bible for they earnings are the ones to blame
If buddhist pepole are fighting long time ago thise time buddhism is world biggest religion my pepole are not fighting for religion many muslim and cristens are fighting for religion im happy in buddhism i loved buddhism
Alan Tamang, Christianity doesn't teach violence or killing non christian but to respect everyone. Christianity don't teach things like jihad of Muslims.
History of the Bible Timeline
• Creation - B.C. 2000 - Originally, the earliest Scriptures are handed down from generation to generation orally.
• Circa B.C. 2000-1500 - The book of Job, perhaps the oldest book of the Bible, is written.
• Circa B.C. 1500-1400 - The stone tablets of the Ten Commandments are given to Moses at Mount Sinai and later stored in the Ark of the Covenant.
• Circa B.C. 1400-400 - The manuscripts comprising the original Hebrew Bible (39 Old Testament books) are completed. The Book of the Law is kept in the tabernacle and later in the Temple beside the Ark of the Covenant.
Confucius No Gods , No Devil 563-479 BCE China No Abrahamic religion in China
Loa Tzu No Gods, No Devil 600 BCE China No Abrahamic religion in China
Buddha 500 B.C.E.
Alexander the great IV 336-323 The Greek Gods Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hestia, Hermes, Demeter, and Poseidon. gods
• Circa B.C. 300 - All of the original Old Testament Hebrew books have been written, collected, and recognized as official, canonical books.
• Circa B.C. 250-200 - The Septuagint, a popular Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (39 Old Testament books), is produced. The 14 books of the Apocrypha are also included.
• Jesus 6-30 A.D.
• Circa A.D. 45-100 - Original 27 books of the Greek New Testament are written.
• Circa A.D. 140-150 - Marcion of Sinope's heretical "New Testament" prompted Orthodox Christians to establish a New Testament canon.
• Circa A.D. 200 - The Jewish Mishnah, the Oral Torah, is first recorded.
• Circa A.D. 240 - Origen compiles the Hexapla, a six-columned parallel of Greek and Hebrew texts.
• Circa A.D. 305-310 - Lucian of Antioch's Greek New Testament text becomes the basis for the Textus Receptus.
• Circa A.D. 312 - Codex Vaticanus is possibly among the original 50 copies of the Bible ordered by Emperor Constantine. It is eventually kept in the Vatican Library in Rome.
• A.D. 367 - Athanasius of Alexandria identifies the complete New Testament canon (27 books) for the first time.
• A.D. 382-384 - Saint Jerome translates the New Testament from original Greek into Latin. This translation becomes part of the Latin Vulgate manuscript.
• A.D. 397 - Third Synod of Carthage approves the New Testament canon (27 books).
• A.D. 390-405 - Saint Jerome translates the Hebrew Bible into Latin and completes the Latin Vulgate manuscript. It includes the 39 Old Testament books, 27 New Testament books, and 14 Apocrypha books.
• Buddha 500 BCE
• A.D. 500 - By now the Scriptures have been translated into multiple languages, not limited to but including an Egyptian version (Codex Alexandrinus), a Coptic version, an Ethiopic translation, a Gothic version (Codex Argentus), and an Armenian version. Some consider the Armenian to be the most beautiful and accurate of all ancient translations.
• A.D. 600 - The Roman Catholic Church declares Latin as the only language for Scripture.
• A.D. 680 - Caedmon, English poet and monk, renders Bible books and stories into Anglo Saxon poetry and song.
• A.D. 735 - Bede, English historian and monk, translates the Gospels into Anglo Saxon.
• A.D. 775 - The Book of Kells, a richly decorated manuscript containing the Gospels and other writings, is completed by Celtic monks in Ireland.
• Circa A.D. 865 - Saints Cyril and Methodius begin translating the Bible into Old Church Slavonic.
• A.D. 950 - The Lindisfarne Gospels manuscript is translated into Old English.
• Circa A.D. 995-1010 - Aelfric, an English abbot, translates parts of Scripture into Old English.
• Genghis Khan . 1162 - August 18, 1227) United all religion
Beautiful video! Thank you!!
I believe that most human being naturally has an indescribable inner sixth sense of a one supreme being or deity. A Creator that love us impeccably. Including, ancient lands.
I believe that too. It’s like a hole that demands to be filled with something meaningful. I’ve wondered if the Lord gave us the pineal gland for this. No true peace or rest without Jesus Christ.
I belive that God works in mysterious ways and China is on his to do board. I am the way, the truth, and the life was said by jesus. The way translates to tao, the truth is he was sent by god, and the life is his promise of life after death. Culminating into John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not Parrish but have everlasting life. These titles are almost like they were a revelation in themselves.
Only One God alone and he came down to Earth.... God of many names and of all Nations
It is mentioned in the video that the Chinese are descendants of Shem. Which line of Shem are they from (Joktan, Lot etc)? Elsewhere I read that the Chinese are descended from Ham (through the line of Sin, Cannan) or from Japhaeth (through Kittim).
Please clarify as I am thoroughly confused. Thanks
Thank you for your question. Let me direct you to Genesis 10:29-30. The sons of Joktan all settled in the eastern hill country. These descendants of Shem are the only ones mentioned in the Bible as migrating to the east. We know that the Cushites migrated into the middle east to become the Canaanites and further down into Africa and then curving around to occupy the Indian Ocean regions. The sons of Japheth went primarily north towards Russia and then west to populate Europe. The descendants of Shem not only settled the Euphrates region, they moved east into Asia. Here is a very helpful website to study the subject: www.eifiles.cn/oo-en.htm
videoparables Thank you for a very enlightening response. What about the Indians from India? Who is their ancestor - Shem too or Japheth?
Regards
As if anyone knows. It's so briefly mentioned and so long ago.
salvatore tan Joktan, the brother of Peleg.
salvatore tan ken Thompson has a teaching on that
Thanks for the documentary which let us know about great China. But there is a great fault that BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA. THE TRUTH IS BUDDHA WAS BORN IN NEPAL. How come these great scholars did not know the truth or they dont know about Nepal country.
Could it be the Buddhist is a branch of Hinduism so thats where the connection is coming from?
"All men will know me from the least to the greatest."
Is there a Chinese version of this video? I would love to share it with my Chinese friends.
Here is the link to the Mandarin Chinese language version. th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html If you have not done so already, you may wish to check our other videos on the Videoparables channel.
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The above video, especially points to the ancient Chinese written characters, evidencing Biblical events.
also in the second installment of the video:
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he posits that the wise men who came from the east to honour the birth of Jesus Christ came from China:
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recorded also in the Han Dynasty of China were signs in Heaven which he posits were of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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至高的上帝，天地的创造者，是唯一的上帝，全善，全智，爱，美丽，看不见，不变，永恒，慈爱的人类之父，他升起太阳和善恶，正义与不义，它是光，生命，理性，用心灵，用心灵无法理解，接近贫穷和屈辱，温柔但将整个宇宙掌握在他的手掌中......
In ancient China, Chinese worship Heaven (GOD). Since emperor Qing during warrior states , two dragons came to the land (evil spirits ), people started to worship emperor / people /power / money / dragons/ other religions.
Two dragons? Please elaborate or provide source- seriously would love to know
Why are you using "BCE" and "CE"? Besides being vague "common era", It's foolish to use these because it's still using the same mark in time, the Birth of Christ.
B.C.E is before Christ existed
Or B.C before Christ
C.E. where the years Christ existence and A.D. is After death
Sometimes they use this to explain with 2,000 b.c v.s. 2,000 a.d. because they are actually talking 2,000 years b.c. and they don't want that to be confused with a.d.
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B.C.E. = Before Common Era
C.E. = Common Era
They have been changed by modern scholars.
Interesting when you consider the medicine wheel (present in almost every Indian tribe) the colors are always black, white, red, and yellow representing all the races of the world and is circular shaped.
The scientists almost 100% sure that we human started in Africa, but they have problems to explain why we all look so different? No one knows actually how they looked like few thousands years ago, all brown, black what we defined as semite or like we know from Hollywood, white or according to our logic how they must look like? Every believers accept that ELOHIM could count the number of our hairs (amazing, you all should try) and so on and say: "For ELOHIM, everything in possible". BUT if comes in combination with sciences, we tend to limit HIS abililty and power. Many started to believe science more than HIS words (science so far I learn in my life is also not fact, but 'believe', just theories which we rewrite often many times). HOW if HE injected few different DNAs to create HIS own people? Even for a scientist is this possible (later?). Is HE less capable than scientists? After finished our study, many of us think we know everything, then we dig deeper and found out, more questions than answers und must humble yourself. Most scientists with their theories often so arrogant to sell their believes as facts (incl. evolution theory) . This topic is difficult for Chinese to accept, also for many other Asian countries due to colonialisation in the past. They consider the Bible and Christianity as tools to control them (which pity in many instances true). Some others can't accept if it is the truth and considering only their own race as GOD's creation. No one knows actually the 100% truth, we all know bit of whole puzzle. Shalom
Elohim ? Nah. Yhwh
Rl I'll
Charles Darwin is a theorist who wrote that fake history. He didn't believe in God, he was an atheist like the Chinese people. He made it up, the story of evolution. We did not come from Africa. It's full of b.s..
Well they found a fossil that confirms it
So very cool! Thanks for this
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When people say Chinese, they mostly refer to Han Chinese, you need to know the difference between Han Chinese and Manchus, our culture is very different. Stop using Manchu picture to represent Chinese! Manchus are nomadic race which we Han Chinese fought for thousands of years, using Manchus to represent Chinese is like using Mongols to represent Chinese, which is ridiculous.
The Manchus weren't nomadic and in fact had their own state. They were among the states that formed after the collapse of the Mongol empire and specifically the Yuan dynasty.
When i hear " chinese" i used to imagine the opposite of original
Wait a second Mongolians and Chinese aren't the same? Does this mean that Koreans and Chinese aren't the same and Japanese and Chinese aren't the same? I thought these terms were just interchangeable?
@Jacky Phantom oh sorry Jacky I was actually kind of trolling I didn't expect anyone to answer on this because it's like over a year old and it's kind of not true but yeah I know there's a difference between Japanese Korean and Chinese and Mongolian Tibetan and several other branches off of the mongoloid genetic tree line as it was put in genetic terms a long time ago although they've kind of abandon that term because it's sort of unethical but you know I have to say it's quite surprising that you actually approach this with a very non discerned Manor and actually meant to correct me instead of just arguing and insult my intelligence like I was waiting for somebody to do I really cannot argue with you at this point or troll you I kind of just feel like it would be an ass sort of thing to do,you're too good of a person so... Yeah
@Jacky Phantom I mean... it's nothing particularly new to me. throughout history we've seen this kind of Mono-ethic behavior from all groups of race and society and culture, I would imagine that the Chinese would have such a ideology of such nature considering their transition to Communism or at least pseudo- Communism for that matter, and it makes sense that they are very much against Japan considering Japan's history with China but I mean this is just the way world of man works we're all sort of capitalistic by heart wanting to have it all
I seen a video that point outs the traditional Chinese charaters show God of the Bible influences ..the Chinese once follows Yahsua
Praise Jesus for he is God in flesh.
Jesus is dead he is no God
@@richardrichard5621 Jesus pbuh is not dead,he will come back and fight the Anti Christ,then live untill he pbuh goes to Heaven according to The Quran. After that Judgement Day is coming soon..
@Gyoto Azimoto Islam is false
Most every culture believes in a supreme deity that created all things and the story usually always starts with how this "God" creating the world.
The funny things is that 99.99999% of the people are just followers and not true believers.
For simplicity, let us assume their is one powerful being (whatever name you call it in your culture) - I have asked these few questions to a head priest man in my culture that believes there is only one great God and he created all things.
01. Why did God even create this world if he is the all powerful because if I was that God I sure wouldn't create inferior beings?
02. Why God, a perfect being, created a crappy world, worlds, and universe?
03. How come God being a perfect being created imperfect beings? In the case of the Christian God, how come he created Adam and Eve and Eve was still able to be deceived by the snake (devil) to eat the apple. This prove God created an imperfect being.
And so many other questions that the priest couldn't answer.
Lets take the Christian God as an example - this is not an argument against the Christian God or any God but based on how people believe in their own scriptures.
So the Christian God created an imperfect world and because Eve ate the apple, people are born sinners. Then this God sends his own and only son to clean up the mess that he made.
Makes no sense at all. If God is perfect, all creation is perfect no matter how strong evil.
The point I am making applies to all cultures who say their God is the only true God. In the case of my culture, we have a similar story. In the very end, if those who believe in our God they will be saved and everyone else would die.
This means all our Gods still have outflows like what the Buddha said. The Buddha said Gods are very powerful beings but they still have outflows, meaning they still have hate, love, mistakes, and many other faults in smaller quantities. Why would an all powerful God even chose to say if you believe in me you will be saved and those who doesn't will be killed. A God that is partial is a being that still has outflows.
... yeah you praise trump too, disproving your whole religion.
Was there anything in the Shang Di religion that spoke of a coming Perfect Sacrifice? A Son?
A Saviour?
This was beautiful to see; God was not silent before Abraham . He always has a reserved remnant. Just as Melchizedek appeared to bless Abraham .
To my knowledge, there was no direct reference to a perfect sacrifice or Savior, only indirect allusions. But that should not be surprising because the Savior was promised through the seed of Abraham, and that is why the Old Testament prophecies did speak of a perfect substitute.
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Again... I am not against the idea that there were believers in ancient China 2500 years before Christ.
Just to clarify...
What I am saying is the difference between natural and special revelation... Between saving faith and not.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Rucelle. Every one of your comments is correct, to my understanding. And you are correct that Christ Jesus is the only Way, Truth, and Light for us today. Were there people saved before Christ came and became the perfect sacrifice. Yes, of course. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the Old Testament saints looked "forward" to the perfect sacrifice, not knowing all the details, but trusting by faith. Can we be certain that there were Chinese who were saved prior to the gospel being fulfilled? I'm not sure, but I would hope so. It all depends upon what they believed and acted upon according to the light they were given. The generation after the flood of Noah's day certainly had enough knowledge of God and how he saved them from the flood. The animal sacrifices would have rightly been offered to Him. But over time, as always happens, the light is distorted by Satan. The early Chinese seem to have held onto the proper meaning of the sacrifices and the God they were honoring for the longest time, though their meaning too has become lost to the Chinese people. Our hope for the video is that the Chinese people will once again recognize the Supreme God of their earliest history who is now calling them to salvation through the perfect sacrifice of his One and Only Son.
Thank you again for your thoughtful comments.
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To be honest... What the Jews had that the Chinese didn't have was the written Word of God. The prophecies and the prophets...
Was it a guarantee to salvation when you posses God's Word?
It depends... But you're already at the front door...
John chapter 3 mentions Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness... And by just by the fact that Jesus Himself quoted John 3, it speaks volumes.
God expects the Old Testament saints after Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the united and divided kingdom to be saved in the same way...
Now, you might argue that the accounts of the serpent being lifted up in Numbers, as was quoted by Jesus, only refers to physical salvation...
But... Not entirely correct...
Jesus' biblical interpretation would state otherwise... John chapter 3 also includes spiritual salvation... Eternal life...
The context of John chapter is regeneration...
So, there you go... God's written Word or revelation is also a necessity...
Faith is the necessity. The Israelites in the wilderness had only the stone tablets written at the time the bronze serpent incident occurred.
Very Elaborate Illustration. Going Back To Humanity's Roots -- Where This Has Been Recorded. Learnt Quite A Bit Of Chinese Language, Culture, And Lexicon. Tough But Good. Will Listen To This Many Times. . . . . . .
Can I find something like this in Chinese to share with my parents?
There is a Chinese language version of this video, but it might be blocked in mainland China because of censorship. Here is the link th-cam.com/video/9dsm-1Asacw/w-d-xo.html
It may also be viewable on the "Movies and Docs" page of videoparables.org
does this speaker really know the Chinese's belief in faith?
this makes me wonder why
Christianity is exclusive.
it makes me realize that there is such a thing as religious exclusivity
which brings up the question, why is exclusive?
why can't religion be, inclusive/universale?
Because of Ophirian Heritage Conservatory (OHC) in the Philippines, I found this..
Shang Di = Abba YHWH (Yahawah)
Let's unite Shemites.
Agree.
Interesting. Too bad you depict Jesus as a long-haired European instead of the manly Jew he was and is. The long hair is a feminine trait which is a reference to the AntiChrist who is according to certain devil-worshippers' symbolism of him, androgynous, which of course means a mix of male and female. See Baphomet. The Bible itself says that the Anti Christ is not interested in women. "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all."
Jesus' blood payed for all of the evil I've ever done; for every time I was selfish. The proof is that the Creator cares about me, since he gave me life, meaning that he will not let me perish, but save me, and so he had to die for me. I know that there is a Creator because order comes from intelligence, especially great order. Atheists on the internet who don't show their face tell me there is no God, and so I tell them I therefore should doubt their existence, since according to their paradigm where order does not have to come from intelligence, their messages could have been due to a cat walking on a keyboard! They mock that notion as absurd, yet do not realize that they are mocking themselves!
manly Jew lol
Foolish child, wake up...god sees our soul
I agree that there is no evidence that Jesus had long hair, but most of the Christian art of Europe depicted him with long hair because the vows of the Nazarite (which is why Samson had long hair) were confused with Jesus being a Nazarene. His being a Nazarene has to do with his coming from Nazareth. The early church of Europe was confused by the terminology. Please understand that the video producer had to use such artwork depicting Jesus as was available.
lord buddha was from nepal not from india..
jeevan kharel dhamma in pali word not modern india languange...
Yes ,im Buddhist to Jeevan , but the Christian Theologycal said we Asian are from seth , ham , yafet , so Gautama Buddha is from Adam and Eve too due to theological
@@edwinagustian4769 hahahahahahahah
@@shivamprajapati8344 why you laughing are u okay? Maybe study before you laugh at someone who studies...it just makes you look very ignorant.
So... Both event and Word... That is revelation...
nice documentary
At 22:52, Reverend Chung says that the Chinese are, like the Jews, descended from Shem.
That is incorrect. The Chinese are descended from Ham through his grandson, Sin, the son of Canaan.
That Chinese are descended from Sin is backed by the fact that China was known as 'Sina' to the ancient Romans, from whom the term 'Sino' was derived.
Julian Cheah - Isaiah 49:12 “Behold, these shall come from afar; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim”
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Great video. Who is the copyright holder as I have a question about requesting permission to copy. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it very much.
Blessings in Christ's name
Thank you for the complement. I will direct you to TH-cam's rules for copying. God bless.
@@videoparables Thank you for your reply.
However this video must have a producer and a copyright owner. The Video clearly states that people can copy and share it provided its for free.
So where does that leave me?
I wish to use it to forward the Kingdom and not to charge. So that means its ok according to the producers since that is what they give right to embedded in the video right?
@@BibleStudyMadeEasy You are communicating with the producer (Videoparables.org to see all our other videos). You are free to copy the link and send the video to whomever you wish, or to download it and show it at your church, Bible study, or wherever you wish. The only restriction is that you cannot use it commercially or in any way to make money. It is freely received and freely given. I trust that you will make use of it for God's glory.
“Working to give the people justice and paying respect to the spirits, but keeping away from them, you can call wisdom.（務民之義、敬鬼神而遠之、可謂知矣。）” 6:22 Yong Ye - Analects of Confucius
(In this part, 鬼神can be translated as spirits, while it can also be translated as devil (鬼）and god（神））
At most... What this video is pointing to is what we call "natural revelation". Meaning, through creation, man as endowed with "common grace" can deduce that there is a start... A Creator... And that He is above, He is one and He is holy.
The only problem with "natural revelation" is that, it could not save someone from his or her sins...
history is beautiful, but sadly there are people try to erase, dishonor, disrespect, twisted, wont acknowledge if they are not existed and it won't fitted to their desires., they want history will start to them.
This is nothing more than preaching of the torah and christianity. I don't think it's much related to describing the chinese altars as the title may suggests. More than half of the video is describing about christian history than religions in china. The christians I believe are mostly persecuted in China since long when the missionaries came to China and expelled or even killed.
The Han Chinese believe they are the descendants of dragon (龙的传人). Ancient Chinese worship dragon, but god said : Thou shalt not worship idol.
You are correct, Guo-An. Thank you for your comment.
We Chinese didn't start calling ourselves ad descendants of dragons until in the early 1900s.
To be more precise...
I leave with this statement...
When we talk about revelation, to which do we attribute this?
To the event in history?
Or, to the words that comments along with the event?
When you focus on the events only... You get liberal scholarship...
When you focus on the words that comments along the events in Scriptures, you get - fundamentalism. I am not using "fundamentalist" as derogatory... In fact, they are heroes in Christendom because at a time when the virgin birth or resurrection were unpopular, it was the fundamentalists who championed these doctrines...
Not so with "liberalism" or Christian liberals... That is for all its denotation, a deviation and a derogation...
So...
In order to be orthodox...
You take the Word-Event-Word model of revelation. Because God is the Author... Of course, we could also touch "inspiration" and human authorship... But if you look closely in the events in the Bible...
Whenever there is an event, God gives a commentary prior and after the event...
And in the heart of that reason is the "doctrine of total depravity".
Total depravity is the condition of man that enables him not to know or obey God due to the original Sin. (capital "s")
Shaang De is the one and only Creator , the first and the last.. we know the message from the one true creator came to all nations. Before Prophet Ibrahim/Mosa ale salam the message came to Prophet Noah ale salam there must be similar prayers does not mean that the Creator belong to some particular nation. there are many prophets between Prophet Ibrahim/Adam ale salam.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in Indonesia for Thy Glory Alone !!!
Good revelation!
Great thank to our Lord of Haven! Amen!
All south-east Asian peoples must recognize the Chinese nation in the beginning of God Creation is our ancestor known as Japhet descendants son of Noah who took the path in east direction to popularize this part of world among two others brothers Sem and Cham. Finally, Lord GOD of Haven makes humanity know that it's so accurate that all men living on earth were descendants of Noah descendants of Adam and Eva.
By this Holy Revelation, why do we continue to fight and kill each others from now any more! Black, white, yellow, human race are brothers and sisters. It's so clear that the dispute leading to war, master of killing will completely eliminated from earth unless all humanity accept they are born within sin which conducting to death, and do repent and believe in Jesus sacrifice on the cross once for its liberation. GOD bless humanity!
Alleluia! Amen
God bless you...
Amazing . I was wondering if the 1st Dynasty worship of shang di was actually handed down to them. from the desendents of Noah son SHEM . Or that the Chinese people are the desendennts of shem and this proves it...
Your misunderstanding of Ancient Taoism is amazing. Ancient Taoism was founded in 6,000 BC, and was, in fact, the first recorded mystic path on earth - thousands of years before the Old Testament of the Christian faith. It is more likely that Christianity emerged from the Taoist teachings
Greggo, Sorry to have to correct you, but you are totally wrong. A simple Internet search on the subject of Taoism will take you to multiple sources that will give you the history of Taoism. It was a philosophy developed under Lao Tzu around 500 BC and codified a couple centuries later as it turned into a religion. The history is explained in the documentary, so I suppose you did not really view the documentary. Fortunately, I do not need to defend what is common knowledge.
Sorry, but you are totally wrong. Lao Tzu was one of the last Taoist Mystics - not the first. I'm well read. I've got over 200 books on Taoism in my personal library. Many of the modern historians are incorrect as well. There is an enormous difference between a Religion and a Spiritual Path. Yes, the Taoist Religion was established after Lao Tzu by the Chinese government; but, that was 6,000 years AFTER the Chinese Taoist Masters (at the Same Level as Jesus Christ) established the Taoist Spiritual Path.
Glory to God the most high
No matter how many riches.or powers any one has no one gains riches or power in the grave! " What profit a man.if he gains the whole world and loses his soul, " said Jesus . No man cometh to the father except by" ME , said Jesus! There's ONE God only in the Bible 🙏 read for your self and discover TRUTH!
This is not any proof that Shang Di is the god of the Israel or Jews. But actuary the proof is on the Chinese Traditional Character that was written. About 400 character shows the biblical stories in the Bible. So that should be topic. But your documentary is not showing these evidence.
16:47 "wants to be known". Or we are only complete in Him
Even though they have left their original God He still blesses them. God has some kind of special plan for them.
MissMooncookie Before the calling of Abraham, all the descendants of Noah are equal before Shang Di eyes. He blessed Shem, Ham and Japheth. So they all were blessed. All could have life eternal if they kept the 7 laws of Noah as instructed in Genesis 9. Through Israel as a nation God will restore all the nations as he divided them in Genesis account, but Israel is his set apart nation not counted among the 70 nations.
And that's found in the book of "MissMooncookie0829"? There is no plan of God but that which are found in His Word, The Bible.
@@donnysath9084 who are the 70 nations? Thanks.
@@markuse3472 I don't think you understand her comment as your response is very weird and makes no sense.
@@julie9541 Only what's in Gods word, The Bible, will come to pass (most has already been fulfilled). Physical Israel are not Gods people as a whole, not after Jesus Christ spoke to us some 2000 years ago and his words were written.
Darn good, with some flaws by non-orthodox Chinese & Jewish pastors; and is severely disfigured from 1:33 by adding the Olympian b.s. making the Spirit sado-masochistic. Without this intrusion, the overall thesis seems strong. Too bad the ending leads one to assume the over-thesis might well be mucked up, too.
I pray that death rejects me forever plus it's forever friends.
Belief in Shang-di was reinforced in the 6-7th centuries AD when the Asyrian church of Babylon spread The Way.
Yohanan Doe The Way 🙏🏽✝️💥
I am Christian and I believe in this possibility. However, I feel sad that the politics since ancient times has always utilized people's faith in the way that benefits the ruling class. Even this Altar of Heaven was built in the forbidden palace. It represented the ruler's faith but did it represent the faith of the farmers and slaves, also? Why should the ruling class alone have such wisdom to build great things, write smart teachings, and control ordinary people to work, pay tax and kill and die in wars for them. I wish that our faith will be clean and free from all kinds of politics. God is great and holy. And some people always use His name to make money.
Such naive questions! How old are you? 12?
Abba is from Havilah and Ophir is the Philippines. Scientific research 2020
1hr and 11 minutes liar and lies !!
Jesus was never mentioned to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ,Moses , King David, King Saul , prophets!!!
40 years in the wilderness? Not once mentioned!!!!!!
We know he didn’t need to say it because in Isaiah ch 43 to 49 he repeatedly said there is no one beside him, he is the saviour, the redeemer!!!!!!
YES... absolutely RIGHT.
I watch some videos.
Shang di is mandarin dialect.. old ancient Chinese should sound like shangdai
Amen thank you Lord Jesus CHrist the Living ShangDI
Andrew, the Chinese did not worship a triune God. They only knew the Almighty Creator God, Shang Di. But neither did the Old Testament Jews worship a triune God. God's plan and the evidences that God is in triunity with the Son and Holy Spirit are found in the O.T. scriptures, but we recognize them only in looking backward from our current revelation through the New Testament scriptures. There is a saying that might be helpful to understanding this, "The Old Testament is the New Testament (God's plan) concealed. The New Testament is the Old Testament (God's plan) revealed." May I suggest reading Romans 16:25-26 and 1 Peter 1:18-21. For an example of the O.T. concealed revelation about Christ's deity see Isaiah 9:6.
actually, they did-- if you look carefully. there is a cloud of Glory, a divine Son of the Divine and Shang Di - they all commune and convene together.
We didn't praying jesus... Dude. We only praying for HIM. GOD who create all thing. The ONE. He is alpha and also omega. We didn't need jesus. We Also have HIS teaching which is the same as ten commandments of God that already teach to us from anciant time in family
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
ABBA is The Author Origin of HIS Revealed LORD's:WORD's Realm and AlefBet [AlphaBet] ... His Omni-One Logic:Language Breathes Charity:LOVE, Divine Generosity and Generous Fatherhood Shared and Dwelling ... Mindful ... Eternal
Isn't this another example of cherry-picking which gods is like my gods even though the chinese civilization is older than god, torah and moses.
The cherubim that cover the arc are your cerebrum, the veil is the arachnid between the dura matter and pia matter of the brain, the third ventricle is the temple, the fiery furnace, Brahmans cave, the arch and arc. It is the BA of the ka BA la. Boat.
Hvad snakker du om? Det der giver ingen mening..
Nice 🙂
Shang Di is a shorter version of Huang Tian Shang Di which means Supreme Ruler of Royal Heaven, since Shang Dynasty. It was during the Ming and Qing dynasties, that the concept of biblical god was changed from Tian Zhu to Shang Di. 😅😅😅
Thank you...
The Shem did head east
The story of Noah is based on Sumerian mythology. The idea that God used a flood to destroy all life on the planet except for a few humans and a boatload of animals is totally rediculous. That's a phantasy story you tell to children. Yes, there were catastrophic floods in Ages past, but they were not God's efforts to punish mankind.
Nej det er forkert. Undersøg Ron Wyatt han fandt Noas ark i den østlige del af Tyrkiet ved Ararat bjerget.
Det er ikke en fantasi historie. Biblen er sand. Herren Jesus Kristus døde for vores synder på korset og genopstod igen og besejrede døden. Indse at du er en synder og indrøm det, åben dit hjerte og kald på Herrens navn. For Gud elskede verden så meget at han gav sin eneste søn så hvem der end tror på ham, ikke skulle dø men have evigt liv.
And that is why... The church is just the recepient of the canon of Scripture, not its arbiter...
That is also a source of humility... In hermeneutics or exegesis...
So true the holy ghost was upon other nations. God spoke to more nations than one
Knowledge of God alone can't save someone...
It is only though true faith can one be saved...
What do I mean about "through true faith"?
By faith, I am not referring to religion as the usage of the word could also mean "of different faiths".
I believe that most human being naturally has an indescribable inner sixth sense of a one supreme being or deity. A Creator that love us impeccably. Including, ancient lands.
I am an American professor of economics. I was in China 12 years. Every Chinese I knew be lived in a spiritual world. All the ones I knew believed in the idea of a higher power, greater than humans. Belonging to a specific religion is good for some people and not for others. I think it is important to care about loving other people.
@@avecmoi9429 yes, karl marx was a good example of caring for others,
regardless of religion rejected as the opiate of the people.
Junior Lewing Koo,
the most remarkable thing is that
this ritual owes nothing to
Confucianism, Taoism or Buddhism,
considered to be the 3 main religions of China.
Even today, in front of every Chinese house,
you have the Altar To THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
How can we know when someone is behind us without looking back?
We don’t have six sense. It is devil and demons who speak to us and we think it’s six sense or it’s our feeling and emotion or uncontrollable thinking…
We are not sick or crazy… it is devil and demons who cause those in us and we think we are sick because we have no control,over those harmful thinking, imagination, feeling, and emotion…
They are not our thinking, feeling, and imagination
They are devil and demons making you think you are bad and harmful and they make you think that they are your thinking, feeling, and emotion and you are bad and they want to cause you to sin so they can destroy you in jail and prison…
They work in ways that if you think there is a supernatural world… you are a crazy person… they are powerful but they ain’t smart…
If they are smart they would know to stop winning and they wouldn’t intentionally sin since the beginning…
They are dumb but with power so they can destroy so you easily…
They can see you, they can see you straight through, they can see and they know your thinking, feeling, emotion, and so on…
Basically they can you as if you are so clear to them and you are clearer than crystal clear water to them.. while you can;t see them and they gang on you and set you up and control you and so much more…
Leave and left it all to god..
@@avecmoi9429 Yes, because Civilization came from the east and not Africa or Europe as you are taught. Everything is copied and plagiarised from China by the Jesuits.
Teng ri is turkic god of eternal blue sky. xian means cyan/ blue chines