Where's the Garden of Eden?Do you believe it is a real place?

Question

I want to know what you think about this.

Answer 1

The Garden of Eden, is a parable, and not a real place, even if it was positioned in Iraq by some, it was not a place, but an older civilization living before the last 3 floods.... The last one happened after the melting of the icesheets over North America over 8000 years ago! If we can`t really find the flooded places, it because the water levels have remained at the same level since then! It is believed that this flood has destroyed an advanced neolithic civilizations, that was spread all accross the world, from the Acores, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia as well as even Egypt! So the flood really happened at the end of the glacial era, but since we lack many informations on the flooded civilizations, we only got Egypt... Actually, some of the first Egyptian pyramids have been created to protect even older constructions, those constructions were of the neolithic era, and are covered and protected by some pyramids against the damages of time! Some were thinking it was made solely for preserving the pharaons, but it was more to protect those older ruins.

Answer 2

I believe the Garden of Eden is an archetypal NEED in the human psyche...

A garden is place where nature flurishes, but is completely under human control... as opposed to the woods or the jungle, etc...  

So I believe it exists in the minds of men.  For we know that we are part of nature...but we are under the impression that in "real nature" we might be mawled over by a bear....

Answer 3

Yes, the Garden of Eden was a real place.  It was destroyed by the Flood.

Answer 4

I think you should stick to your Sunday school teaching because girl if you listen to some of this mess they are saying you will be lost ok remember  it takes faith to be a believer remember we messed up and got kicked out and the gate was locked do you think god would destroy something he took the time to lock up? do you think he would allow man to find and destroy what he has built what do you think archaeologist would do to the garden if it was reveled do you think we would ever be allowed to see it if man could put a property claim on it I believe it is hidden from mans eye man dose not know everything I personally love gardens and i hope someday to be able to walk through it and  i just know i will say god can this be my backyard(smile)

Answer 5

Of course not, it's a fairy tale like Santa's workshop.

Answer 6

I believe it is somewhere in Iraq ironically

Answer 7

It's in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.  It's pretty lush.  That area's called the Fertile Crescent, after all, and it was one of the places that agriculture first developed.  I don't believe anyone's found an angel carrying a flaming sword, but I really don't think that detracts from the story.

Answer 8

The idyllic world, "The Garden of Eden", in which Adam and Eve supposedly lived, is a literary acronym for "ignorance is bliss."

For, when they lived in ignorance of "knowledge" it was supposedly a perfect world.  Afterwards, well, you know.

Answer 9

I don't believe in a Garden of Eden as described in the book of Genesis.  I think the general scientific consensus is that human life as we know it began in Africa.

Answer 10

This can't be explained here...too long, but  I don't believe it's an actual physical realm, but rather a state of consciousness that one strives to attain.

Answer 11

Why not? I believe in everything else, fairies, Atlantis, Loch Ness, etc. (Fairies in a metaphorical sense) Why not? It certainly makes life more fun. And people didn't used to believe in Sodom and Gomorrah till Archeologists found it.

Answer 12

I think it could be Earth, where things are left to grow wild, naturally and beautifully...like in National Parks. To me, it is anywhere without cars, traffic and buildings obscuring the beauty of Nature.

Answer 13

Yet another fairytale, Melly. True of every part of the 'Creation' story, which speaks of our species' gift for pulling out of the air an explanation for something when the answer eludes us, as it did the Bronze Age tribe of desert nomads whose invisible god 21st-century humans devote their lives to.

Answer 14

The answer to the second question is no, of course not, so there is no answer to the first question.

Answer 15

The real birthplace of humanity was somewhere in East Africa (much longer than 6000 years ago), but the legendary garden of Eden described in Semitic mythology was once thought to have been between the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq.  The flood described in the Hebrew bible probably also occurred along the same rivers, although the myth could refer to a flood that occurred around the Black Sea coast.  There never was a worldwide flood as described in the bible;  There is no evidence for such a flood, and anyway there isn't enough water on Earth for such a flood to occur (to flood all the way up the side of Mt. Ararat in Turkey).  Genetic evidence proves the common descent of all humans from an African ancestor around 200,000 years ago.

If you want to learn more about the bible's origins, check out "101 Myths of the Bible" by biblical scholar Gary Greenberg.  To see pictures of some ancient human relatives, check out "From Lucy to Language" by Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar.