Chinese characters are the oldest writing system in the world that is still in use today. Ancient Chinese scribes created logogram characters with stories handed down by their ancestors from one generation to another since the beginning of human history. Stories about the mystical Garden of Eden were the building blocks for these graphic symbols. This discovery was made by authors C. H. Kang and Ethel R. Nelson who began to notice that some of the original Chinese ideograms aligned with the records of Genesis. As a result, they were inspired to analyze dozens of ideographic pictures and after many years of research published their findings in a book called “The Discovery of Genesis – How the Truths of Genesis Were Found Hidden in the Chinese Language.”

“The evidence they compiled supports the thesis that ancient “picture-writing” of the Chinese language embodies memories of man’s earliest days. The characters, when broken down into componential parts, reflect elements of the story of God and man as recorded in the early chapters of Genesis. As well as … the first man and woman in the garden, the institution of marriage, the temptation and fall, death, Noah’s flood, the tower of Babel – these records of Holy Scripture are all there in the tiny drawings and strokes that make up the original Chinese characters.” (rendition from Paul Zimmerman’s introduction to The Discovery of Genesis)

I highly recommend this intriguing book about the origins of the oldest recorded language in human history as it was preserved within the pictographic characters of the Chinese language.