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Did ancient Chinese know about the Flood?

3/5/2014

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While there are only twenty-six letters in the English language, there are tens of thousands of Chinese characters. In practice, though, a person needs to know fewer than four thousand to be functionally literate.

The earliest Chinese characters were probably mostly pictograms—where the character looks like the thing it represents—and ideograms. Over the years they have evolved to where they are hard to recognize. Here are three examples.














Today only about four percent of Chinese characters are pictograms, but one is particularly intriguing—the character for “ship” or “large boat.” It’s formed by combining the words for “eight” (the number of people on the ark), “person,” and “boat.” 

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Did ancient Chinese know about the Flood? We don’t really know, but the coincidence is intriguing. There are more than 300 flood stories around the world. Six of them are told in Noah: The Real Story.
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Edward Abel link
3/6/2014 07:11:25 am

Does the author know or has heard about Ron Wyatt. And were his claims valid?

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Larry Stone
3/6/2014 11:01:17 pm

Edward, yes, I've heard of Ron Wyatt and mention him in the book, Noah: The Real Story.

Although Ron Wyatt's discoveries are impressive, it seems that others who are well informed do not agree with him. For instance, neither James Irwin nor John Morris agreed with Ron Wyatt's identification of the Durupinar Site as being the location of Noah's Ark. And the Garden Tomb Association (Wyatt claimed the ark of the covenant was in a chamber on the ground of the Garden Tomb) said it "totally refutes the claim of Mr. Wyatt."

Because of this consistent pattern of his claims being disputed by those who should know, I doubt that they are valid.

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