The Garden of Eden The Garden of Eden
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel(Tigris): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Parallel references
Garden of Eden in Islam as well . Here they are both tempted Sumerian texts also have a similar story George Smith found story of the Garden and tree of life when deciphering hieroglyphs Approx 2000bc Garden of paradise once existed but destroyed by flood . Where is the Garden?
Eden Garden vague East or Eastward in Eden Searched for Garden in ancient Mesopotamia between Euphrates and Tigris Pishon and Gihon were non existant
Other options Not here at all. Modern rivers named after pre-Flood rivers, just like settlers from the British Isles to America named eg Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. Where is the Garden?
The Garden was destroyed by the Flood. Its actual location on the globe can never be established. Landscape had changed because of change of land with the flood 10 generations after Adam was sunk Where is the Garden?
If the Middle East region is where the Garden of Eden was, and if crude oil is, as most scientists believe, primarily decayed vegetation and animal matter, Many people speculate that the vast stores of oil in the Middle East are the result of the decomposition of Earth’s lushest organic materials in the Garden of Eden. A theory The quest to find the Garden
Suggested Quest to find it were: Crusaders around 1000ad Marco Polo Prestor John John mentions fountain of youth Porta rico Galileo and Capernicus Literal belief diminishing Eden never existed Not a geographical place
Columbus led Chinese expedition Columbus And Smith
Adventurers returned from the Atlantic high seas with reports of rich, fertile islands that many thought might be Atlantis, or Eden. 1622, Captain John Smith refers to two such English legends.
Christopher Columbus keen to find Garden of Eden. One suggestion the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa. " Columbus' copious marginal notes demonstrate his abiding interest in mapping the location of the lost Garden. When he stumbled onto the island of Hispanola, Columbus believed he was close to rediscovering Eden; a belief reinforced by the strength of the Orinoco river:” Wrote to Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Saying found in South America on August 1, 1498. He explored the Orinoco River of Venezuela Columbus, a deeply religious man, decided after careful thought that Venezuela was the outer regions of the Garden of Eden. What he discovered would help make Spain the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth for that century Columbus said found what matched descriptions mountain hidden by clouds Temperature perfect Exotic fruits More recent
For Dr. Zarins seven years working out his own hypothesis believes that the Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf Coded story transition from gatherers in the neolithical period to agiculture period around 6000bc Evidence from space
Saudi arabia was not always a desert Space imaging revealed not just two rivers but four rivers . Fossil rivers
Did once meet when sea level much lower Head of Persian Gulf is where garden Sea 500feet lower than is today down there These images show a "fossil river," that once flowed through northern Arabia and through the now dry beds, which modern Saudis and Kuwaitis know as the Wadi Riniah and the Wadi Batin. Furthermore. as the Bible says, this region was rich in bdellium, an aromatic gum resin that can still be found in north Arabia, and gold, which was still mined in the general area in the 1950s. Saudi peninsula fit Gishon and Pison and Cush Sanford a geologist Natural dam and dry land in Gulf G of E under persian Gulf 150 feet deep the source of the four rivers was somewhere near Lebanon, all four rivers are connected through the Great Rift fault system, Holy land “Many Christians have wondered where the Garden of Eden is located, but we should be asking a more important question: what does Eden represent.JOSHUA TILGHMAN
“His Garden is not LITERAL but is spiritual and is found in every man,” “The result of what happens in your Garden is not determined by, but IS DECIDED BY EACH OF US ACCORDING TO THE PERSONAL CHOICES WE MAKE IN LIFE” Des Walter Sept 2009 Take home message from Garden
The choices we make dictate the lives we lead. ~William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’