Animation on how Chinese Characters can be used to help us understand biblical truths and stories. This was a "Teach Me" project from a class at Liberty University.
I wanted to use this video to show kids how biblical concepts and truths can be seen through their everyday Chinese characters. So for this video, I focused on three Chinese characters: 船(boat), 塔(tower), 義(righteous):
I wanted to use this video to show kids how biblical concepts and truths can be seen through their everyday Chinese characters. So for this video, I focused on three Chinese characters: 船(boat), 塔(tower), 義(righteous):
- For the word "boat", you can separate it and see it as 舟(ark), 八(eight) & 口(mouth), which is fascinating, cause kids can look at it and easily remember that the first boat the bible ever mentioned was the Noah's ark and that there were eight people in it.
- For the word "tower", you can separate and see it as 土(mud), 艹(grass) & 合(unity), which is also fascinating that a group of people united under one language and used sticks and mud to build the tower of Babel.
- For the word "righteous", this is the most fascinating to me, where you can literally see the love of God through this character, the character can be separated and seen as 羊(sheep) & 我(me), and it's the sheep on top of me!! How that concept of being made righteous by the lamp of God covering us.
So the animation is about this fluff!!
So the animation is about this fluff!!
Starts with "Wings, are missing..." & "Mission, discover biblical mysteries through Chinese characters". Fluff will gain wings as it reaches each part of the character and gain extra when the bible verse comes up after every word. But for the word "tower", fluff loses all it's wings when the bible verse comes up because that action for building the tower of Babel was not pleasing to the Lord. BUT!!! in the end, because we were made righteous through Jesus, the perfect lamb of God, fluff gains ALL it's wings back!!! the end.
The verse I used . . .
For "boat", 1 Peter 3:20, ". . . once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
For "tower", Genesis 11:1&4, "Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. . . And they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.' "
For "righteous", Genesis 22:8 "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering" & 2 Corinthians 5:21 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
The verse I used . . .
For "boat", 1 Peter 3:20, ". . . once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
For "tower", Genesis 11:1&4, "Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. . . And they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.' "
For "righteous", Genesis 22:8 "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering" & 2 Corinthians 5:21 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
