On the Ideas about God and Immortality of Human Soul in the Oracle-bone Inscriptions Found in the Ruins of the Shang Dynasty

Philosophy and Culture 33 (1):107-112 (2006)
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Oracle of God or God in all of Oracle experts, a cover that is a bit all cells , the supreme God. That is unique to Guo Yan Zhao's founding ancestor, for the emperor, as God, that is up to God, its not true. First, if God is the highest Yin ancestors, descendants of course, God , of course, God's ability, but their descendants are not up to the gods, they will naturally have no such ability that Yin Zu. In Oracle, we see from the quotation, God, or God has the ability to dominate nature: "God so its mine." "God so wet." Blessing of God can produce disaster: "God be I . "" God did not fall drought. "" God of its drop菫. "Emperor also control the war," side by clever cutting and "," Wang Feng Yi, Emperor if ", as well as on the Emperor and the relationship between people, and very intimate. All scholars of Oracle-bone inscriptions agree that the so-called god in these inscriptions refers to the highest deity with personality. Guo Moruo is the only scholar who argued the founding father of the Shang Dynasty as the god, the highest deity; this argument is illogical to assume. First, if the founding father of the Shang Dynasty was the highest deity, his descendents would also have been deities and therefore they possessed god's power. However, those descendents didn 't have such power, then their founding father didn't have either. Within the oracle-bone inscriptions quoted in these following sentences, we see that the god has the power to command the nature and gives blessings and omens. The god is also in control of wars. Besides, the relationship between the god and people is very close

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