Showing posts with label creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creation. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2026

MEotW: wēixíng “jīqì”

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we tell Mandarin-speaking people in the field about the tiny machines inside our cells?



A computer-animated visualization of how tiny molecular machines inside our cells copy DNA


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Sunday, August 02, 2026

MEotW: jǐngrán‐yǒuxù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In contrast to the haphazardly evolved Chinese characters, how is Pīnyīn well-designed, neat, and orderly, like the manufacturing processes inside our cells?


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Sunday, June 28, 2026

MEotW: chuàngzào

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us talk to Mandarin-speaking people about whether God used evolution to create living things?


“_Chuàngzào_” in Genesis 1:27 (NWT (nwtsty), WOL CHS+Pinyin), with “_zào_” in _Héhé Běn_

To represent how God caused humans to come into existence, the Mandarin New World Translation Bible uses “chuàngzào”, and the Héhé Běn (Union Version Chinese Bible) uses “zào”. Both these expressions contain the sense of “made, created”, and perhaps “built”.


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Sunday, June 14, 2026

MEotW: xúnhuán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk in Mandarin about the well-designed natural cycles that make life possible on earth?


Map showing Beijing’s ring roads

A map showing Beijing’s ring roads (source)


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Sunday, April 19, 2026

MEotW: jǐngjǐng‐yǒu‐tiáo

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we say in Mandarin that the galaxies are distributed according to a pattern?


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Sunday, April 12, 2026

MEotW: záluàn‐wú‐zhāng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

While the manufacturing processes inside our cells are not haphazard, how is the design of Chinese characters haphazard?


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Monday, March 30, 2026

MEotW: yì‐zhī‐bàn‐jiě

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What understanding can help us Mandarin field language learners to move beyond “knowing just enough to be dangerous”?


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Sunday, February 01, 2026

MEotW: yǔzhòu

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we get Mandarin-speaking people thinking about whether the universe was designed?


Chart: Languages by First-Language Speakers—2019

The worldwide Mandarin field is by far the largest language field in the world, and it’s likely that it is the largest language field ever in history.



The Great Wall of China

In addition to the inherent technical difficulty of the subject of creation/evolution, Mandarin field language learners also face the Great Wall of characters.


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Sunday, November 30, 2025

MEotW: fǎn’ér

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

When might it be good to be “contrarian” in the Mandarin field?


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Sunday, November 16, 2025

MEotW: tiān‐yī‐wúfèng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us to reintroduce Mandarin-speaking Chinese people to the Supreme Sovereign of the universe?


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Sunday, November 09, 2025

MEotW: hé‐zhànzhēng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we introduce to Mandarin-speaking people the subject of what the Bible says about nuclear war?


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Sunday, October 12, 2025

MEotW: qià‐dào‐hǎochu

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about how fine-tuned the universe is to support life?


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Sunday, October 05, 2025

MEotW: ménwèi

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk to Mandarin-speaking people, many of whom believe in evolution, about the “security guards” built into our cells?


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Sunday, August 24, 2025

MEotW: qiǎohé

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about the so-called “coincidences” that allow life to exist on earth?


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Sunday, August 10, 2025

MEotW: pèi

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we help to ensure that Jehovah gets the honour and glory he deserves as we serve in the Mandarin field?


“pèi” _Pīnyīn_ Plus info, Song 159 (music+_Pīnyīn_), on iPhone 13 mini (landscape orientation)

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

MEotW: Zàowù‐Zhǔ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why is it especially important to talk to people in the Mandarin field about the evidence showing that the Creator exists?


Chart: Languages by First-Language Speakers—2019

The worldwide Mandarin field is by far the largest language field in the world, and it’s likely that it is the largest language field ever in history.



The Great Wall of China

In addition to the inherent technical difficulty of the subject of creation/evolution, Mandarin field language learners also face the Great Wall of characters.


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Saturday, July 12, 2025

MEotW: xiāngduì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, what can we say to those who believe that living things evolved from relatively less complex living things?


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Sunday, June 15, 2025

MEotW: shēngjī‐bóbó

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, how can we use a Chinese idiom to help show that the earth was created?



A computer-animated visualization of how tiny molecular machines inside our cells copy DNA


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Sunday, May 18, 2025

MEotW: Tiānfāng‐Yè‐Tán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How could we reply to a Mandarin-speaking person who says that the idea of a world without war is just a fairy tale?


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Sunday, April 27, 2025

MEotW: shùnxù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What distinctive feature of the Learn From the Bible book makes it especially beneficial in the Mandarin field?


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