where was the garden of eden? In modern day times what would be the actual location of the garden of eden?

Answer 1

There have been a number of claims as to the actual geographic location of the Garden of Eden, though many of these have little or no connection to the text of Genesis. Most put the Garden somewhere in the Middle East near Mesopotamia. Locations as diverse as Ethiopia, Java, Sri Lanka (Adam's Peak), the Seychelles, Brabant, Jackson County, Missouri and Bristol, Florida have all been proposed as locations for the garden. Some Christian theologians believe that the Garden never had a terrestrial existence, but was instead an adjunct to heaven as it became identified with Paradise (see below).

The text asserts that the Garden was planted in the eastern part of the region known as Eden and that in Eden the river divided into four branches: Hiddekel (also known as Tigris), Euphrates, Pishon and Gihon. The identity of the former two are commonly accepted, though the latter two rivers have been the subject of endless argument. But if the Garden of Eden had really been near the sources of the Tigris and the Euphrates, then the original narrators in the land of Canaan would have identified it as located generally in the Taurus Mountains, in Anatolia. Satellite photos reveal two dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf near where the Tigris and Euphrates also terminate. While this accounts for four easterly flowing rivers, those who believe the garden to be at the source of the rivers disregard this information.

Some literalists point out that the world of Eden's time was destroyed during Noah's Flood and it is therefore impossible to place the Garden anywhere in post-flood geography. There is also an attempt to tie this with the mystical sunken land of Atlantis. One favourite location is Sundaland in the South China Sea. In this theory the current Tigris and Euphrates rivers would not be the ones referred to in the narrative, but later rivers named after two of the earlier rivers, just as in more modern times colonists would name features of their new land after similar features in their homeland. This idea also resolves the apparent problem in the theory that the rivers had a common source, which the current rivers do not.

One recent claim by archaeologist David Rohl puts the garden in the north-western Iran. According to him, the Garden is a river valley east of the Sahand Mountain, near Tabriz. He cites several geological similarities with Biblical descriptions, and multiple linguistic parallels as evidence. The Medians lived in this area before founding the Persian Empire.

The Urantia Book (1955) places the Garden of Eden in a long narrow peninsula projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and having been long ago submerged in connection with volcanic activity and the submergence of a Sicilian land bridge to Africa, features unidentified by geologists.

Another theory is that the textual descriptions are from the perspective of Adam and Eve, that is, from within the garden. From their viewpoint you would be looking upstream to see the river leaving Eden and entering the garden. Further upstream and further into Eden the river parts into four separate rivers. Following each of these upstream will lead you to their headwaters. This theory also puts the Garden of Eden in the vicinity of the northern end of the Persian Gulf.

Answer 2

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Gen 2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
Gen 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

It was located between four rivers, one near Assyria and another that goes around Ethiopia, and near the Euphrates river in the middle east. Check a modern day map, and not such location remains.

During the time of Noah's flood more that just rainfall happened. The Bible says that the foundations of the deep were broken apart. The continents split and began to drift. (Ever notice now the east coast of South America fits perfectly with the west coast of Africa.) The location where Eden appears to have been located - between Assyria and Ethiopia - is now underwater thanks to continental drift.

Answer 3

Location of Eden. The original site of the garden of Eden is conjectural. The principal means of identifying its geographic location is the Bible’s description of the river “issuing out of Eden,” which thereafter divided into four “heads,” producing the rivers named as the Euphrates, Hiddekel, Pishon, and Gihon. (Ge 2:10-14) The Euphrates (Heb., Perath´) is well known, and “Hiddekel” is the name used for the Tigris in ancient inscriptions. (Compare also Da 10:4.) The other two rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, however, are unidentified.

Some, such as Calvin and Delitzsch, have argued in favor of Eden’s situation somewhere near the head of the Persian Gulf in Lower Mesopotamia, approximately at the place where the Tigris and the Euphrates draw near together. They associated the Pishon and Gihon with canals between these streams. However, this would make these rivers tributaries, rather than branches dividing off from an original source. The Hebrew text points, rather, to a location in the mountainous region N of the Mesopotamian plains, the area where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have their present sources.

The fact that the Euphrates and Tigris rivers do not now proceed from a single source, as well as the impossibility of definitely determining the identification of the Pishon and Gihon rivers, is possibly explained by the effects of the Noachian Flood, which undoubtedly altered considerably the topographical features of the earth, filling in the courses of some rivers and creating others.
The traditional location for the garden of Eden has long been suggested to have been a mountainous area some 225 km (140 mi) SW of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers S of Lake Van, in the eastern part of modern Turkey.

That Eden may have been surrounded by some natural barrier, such as mountains, could be suggested by the fact that cherubs are stated to have been stationed only at the E of the garden, from which point Adam and Eve made their exit.—Ge 3:24.
After Adam’s banishment from the paradisaic garden, with no one to “cultivate it and to take care of it,” it may be assumed that it merely grew up in natural profusion with only the animals to inhabit its confines until it was obliterated by the surging waters of the Flood, its location lost to man except for the divine record of its existence.—Ge 2:15.

Answer 4

Nobody really knows for sure but there is speculation that Eden was actually in Africa. See, the world used to have one huge landmass, called Pangea. Over time, it broke apart creating several continents. Some people also think it could have been near Babylon, which is skeptical seeing as how no one knows how Babylon could keep such flourishing plant and garden life seeing as how it was in the middle of the desert.

Answer 5

There is much speculation about where the garden could have been, but there is no way to ever know for sure.

The flood changed the climate and the landscape so much, that we just can never know for sure.

Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden, so artifacts if they did exist to this day, wouldnt even have been from the garden as they had no need for tools and such prior to being cast from the garden.

Answer 6

From what I've read by scholars and researchers, Iraq seems to the most agreed upon answer in modern times.

Since Abraham, the father of Judaism, was from the Iraq region ... and since many of the early portions of the Bible (such as Genesis) borrow heavily from Sumerian and Babylonian mythology ... this would seem fairly logical.

But the region likely did not have as much significance as the Bible would seem to suggest.

Answer 7

I'm afraid that no one really knows, but the Bible states that it was the source of four great rivers, including the Euphrates and the Tigris. That gives us some indication, but the flood at the time of Noah could have totally changed the entire landscape. There are things all of us would like to know, but that is not always possible.

Answer 8

I think the garden of eden is in Africa where human life began. I think, symbolically, Eden was a time and place where man lived in harmony with his environment. Mankind's "fall" was when he discovered agriculture and began manipulating his environment. Agriculture allowed man to populate the Earth - but ultimately away from a lifestyle in harmony with his environment.

Answer 9

Nobody knows for sure but the best estimates place it at a point in Iraq or maybe Iran, in that vicinity anyway. At the flood it was destroyed but will be restored one day when Jesus comes back. That is after the thousand years spoken of in Revelation.

Answer 10

Detroit