I enjoy history. Always have.
Mostly American Frontier and Ancient History.
It's rather interesting to ponder the life of those who made projectiles we find as we trap different areas and realize >>>>> we don't have life anywhere near as harsh as those who long ago camped on a hill top to keep a sharp eye out for "trouble."
Or to ponder the history of humanity that brought us to the blessings of life in our time in this land of the Americas.

I find the debate on whether or not the ancient Chinese language, the oldest language in human history at ~ 6,000 years old, refers to the writings of God's 1st prophet Moses in the first chapters of Genesis fascinating also. The Chinese language pictographs are straight forward and seem rather clear that those who developed the language to begin with had intimate knowledge of Genesis but scholars are divided on this of course with atheists considering that thesis hogwash and conservative theologians accepting it as valid.

For instance, the Chinese language pictographs contain words like;
Garden which seems to refer to Eden.


Create which seems to refer to a Creator from Scripture


Flood which seems to point to the entire earth being involved


Boat which seems to refer to the eight aboard Noah's Ark


Covet (which is sin) seems to refer to the Fall of man


Righteousness seems to refer to refer to a people covered by the blood


History is fascinating and we should not ignore it because those who went before us were not less than us, as modern humanists claim.
Rather, they were just like us >>>> that ancient sitting while tooling keeping on eye out
or the Asian trying to precisely express the first human language in written form.

I enjoy history.

Blessings,
Mark

I enjoy learning about China too, Mark. Thank you for sharing.

Yes, I found it interesting also.

History is fascinating is it not.
We'd be a wiser people if we knew more of where we have come from rather than discounting it as humanists mandate.

Blessings,
Mark

That's interesting. And seems clear to me.

We escaped through the Caucasus mountains.,..we gathered in a new Jerusalem,..a land of milk and honey,..a destiny foretold?
We built that up,..it's destiny foretold we would enumerate,..that has happened.What response would should we be aware in the sense that we would fray from that commitment.

Mark, the Hebrews borrowed and interpreted the first that part of Genesis from people who lived on the Central Asian Steppes.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015...rom/0000017f-e5be-d97e-a37f-f7ffcefd0000

The Chinese wrote their pictographs based on information from their contact with the people from the Central Asian Steppes.

Most of our religious beliefs were passed down from those people from the steppes as they spread out in waves of migration populating the Western part of Asia, the Middle East, Europe and now North America and Australia. There may be no truly new ideas from the Jews in the Old Testament at all.

Keith

Why do Chinese deities have Blue eyes and Blonde hair?
And why did they use the swatica as a religious symbol?
And everything written in the Holy Bible is the 3rd or 4th telling of those epic tails
Just a small number of the questions I have when I study the past.

As a theologian whose studied ancient history (and still do) I don't agree with modern scholars arguing that Hebrew Scripture copies Meso and other prior creation myths and so is just another in a long line of mythical narratives. I am in the camp of those who believe it is the other way around. The ancients knew the story of Genesis, the Garden, the Flood and all that Moses would write down later, because they ALL were descendants of those who walked from the Garden towards the East.
You see, I'm not a Baal worshipper, although as a Gentile, I should be.
And I too am a descendent of those who walked out of fellowship with God towards the east.

But, there was one event in history - ONE - that sifted through all the human efforts to discount, discredit, fool, and despise what is Truth.
It's called the Resurrection of the Son of God.
Who said Himself that He came not to destroy Rome and the pagans at that time, but to fulfill the Law (God's instruction to keep people from killing themselves off) and the SCRIPTURES.
And the Scriptures that the only person to rise from the grave after being dead was not the Baal, Meso, Egyptian, or any other writings.
It was the writings of the Hebrews, inspired by God to write them as they did.

So now we have them, and we can choose to believe or not.
Praise God for the ability to be able to have a human will which we see is most often bent on itself.
And who would send their Son to die for people who hate Him anyway?
A God who is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness and truth (Exodus 34:6-7) which has never been written in ANY ancient mythology.
Thanks be to God through His chosen Moses for that help.
Now we know.

Blessings!
Mark

Whew,,whew,whew,,right over top of my head there folks!!!!
So I guess ill just go use the girls bathroom and keep the fed money flowin!!!

Me too.