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Mondschmerz | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Actually this looks really weird to me, I have never seen anything like this before, to me Tao Te Ching and the Bible are completely two different things 🤔I can't even imagine how these two can be combined together, I would like to read this if I have any chances
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Marakesh 𓅦 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, I'd like to see the case the author makes. I do find it interesting that when Bible translators in 1911 looked for the right word to translate "Logos", which refers to Jesus in John 1:1, they chose the word Tao.

I have found the wisdom and philosophy in the Tao Te Ching intriguing. It's like natural law, or a human who didn't have special revelation of Yahweh trying to comprehend and explicate the universe and mind behind it.

There's also this one podcast I once found regarding Christianity and Taoism: 

https://fountain.fm/show/80uIkFykT37lqDBZAw0n
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Mondschmerz | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 As I can find, there's not much discussions or articles about this topic in Chinese websites, so it's really an interesting perspective on what I used to learn about^^ Thank you for presenting me this, I shall work on that later