Tell your children the story of how God created the world and why
The story of God's creation is a breathtaking account of how and why God created the universe and life. It isn't, of course, a description of God's physics, geometry, chemistry or biology. Who would understand it if God revealed his science to us? The story of God'screation in Genesis Chapter One is to break the news to all, parents and children, that we have a Creator who loves us and who has not made the universe to dwarf our importance to him but to show that everything was made for us. We are his sons and daughters, his children whom he loves dearly and who wants no one to feel they are alone. The simplicity of the Genesis account is God's way of revealing the truth, even to children, for being our Father, this is what he wanted to do. Let your child know the truth of what God says
for God would never tell a lie.
The story of creation is not just found in the Hebrew language where Moses wrote it down as he received it from God.
I am studying the Chinese language and I have found parallels of Genesis 1 in their writings. Their writings are characters made up of lines that represent words. The meaning of a word is recognised by the way these lines are drawn together. The word ZAO, 造for instance, is a word that means create but this word is not a literal translation of the English word create. It is a word arrived at by its etymology or association with other words. The word ZAO, (pronounced in the forth tone,) is made up of lines that form other words.
As you can see by this breakdown of the word zao the full meaning of create is shown by its associations.
In Genesis2:7 the bible says, ‘The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life.’ The word for talk is gao 告, the word for dust or earth is tu 土, the word for talk is Kou . 口. And the word for walk is走 of which the lower stroke is present.
From this breakdown of the word create, it is clear that the origins of the word create were already known thousands of years ago in China. They show that man was created from the dust of the ground, that he walked and talked and was a living being.
The breakdown of the word zao is a picture of the first man created by God. It is formed by the separate strokes of the Hanzi characters. How did the ancient Chinese write these words if they did not understand their origins in God's creation?
for God would never tell a lie.
The story of creation is not just found in the Hebrew language where Moses wrote it down as he received it from God.
I am studying the Chinese language and I have found parallels of Genesis 1 in their writings. Their writings are characters made up of lines that represent words. The meaning of a word is recognised by the way these lines are drawn together. The word ZAO, 造for instance, is a word that means create but this word is not a literal translation of the English word create. It is a word arrived at by its etymology or association with other words. The word ZAO, (pronounced in the forth tone,) is made up of lines that form other words.
As you can see by this breakdown of the word zao the full meaning of create is shown by its associations.
In Genesis2:7 the bible says, ‘The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life.’ The word for talk is gao 告, the word for dust or earth is tu 土, the word for talk is Kou . 口. And the word for walk is走 of which the lower stroke is present.
From this breakdown of the word create, it is clear that the origins of the word create were already known thousands of years ago in China. They show that man was created from the dust of the ground, that he walked and talked and was a living being.
The breakdown of the word zao is a picture of the first man created by God. It is formed by the separate strokes of the Hanzi characters. How did the ancient Chinese write these words if they did not understand their origins in God's creation?
