2006-07-12 14:24:05 · 20 answers · asked by Mary C 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It would have had to exist in the first place in order to have a chance of existing this very day. So no.
2006-07-12 14:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Sleepy Shroom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While the secular world almost universally assumes that the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is legend, many evangelical Christians believe it to be a true story--that Adam and Eve were historical people and that the Garden of Eden was a historical place. One reason for this belief is because the Bible gives its geographic location: two of the names of the four rivers mentioned in Gen. 2:10-14 have been preserved from biblical times. According to the Bible, the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in southern Iraq where the Euphrates and Hiddekel (Tigris) Rivers flowed into the head of the Persian Gulf--that is, they flowed on a modern landscape that is still recognizable today.
What most Christians do not realize is that this biblical identification of Eden on a modern landscape is in direct conflict with Flood Geology, a premise promoted by Creation Science. The basic tenet of Flood Geology is that all (or almost all) of the sedimentary rock on the planet earth was formed during Noah's flood. But modern geologic study has shown (by oil drilling) that the landscape of southern Iraq is underlain by six miles of sedimentary rock. Thus the question can be asked: How could the Garden of Eden, which existed on a pre-flood landscape existing before the flood, have been located over six miles of sedimentary rock created during the flood?
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2006-07-12 21:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Evy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. At least not as the garden it once was. Scripture tells us that God barred our way back by placing a Cherribim to prevent us from re-entering it. But scripture tells us that four rivers flowed through it...the Tigris, Euphrates, and two others...(sorry can't remember off the top of my head.) That would place it in the middle east, and...well...I don't see any gardens there now.
2006-07-12 21:30:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe that the Garden of Eden exists. If I were to believe it did, then I would have to believe that it existed in the first place. Which I don't.
2006-07-12 21:34:38 · answer #4 · answered by Rainey H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lord placed a flaming sword around the tree of life to guard it so it must still be somewhere on earth but there is no mention about the whole garden being protected
2006-07-12 21:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a History Channel program that speculated that there was one place where the head waters of the four rivers started. It is in the a mountainous region of Iran. The four rivers are the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates.
2006-07-12 21:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by bootsie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the Garden of Eden does not exist today. We don't even know where it actualy was
2006-07-12 21:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by evil_kandykid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I suppose, but who would know where it is? After the flood the world was so changed. However, since it was here once, it would have to be somewhere, probably under alot of soil. Michael Philips wrote an interesting novel about it.
2006-07-12 21:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by no/evil/surmiser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there actually is a site that is claimed to be the Garden of Eden, somewhere in the Middle East (i know that's vague)
2006-07-12 21:28:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never existed. It, along with that whole Genesis story, is all a fabricated fiction. Nobody even knows the author of that fantasy.
2006-07-12 21:44:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋