Where was the Garden of Eden really located? Africa?

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Someone here said that it could have been a possibility that Eden was in Africa, and I think it's true because of the variety of flora and fauna that Africa used to have. It would have been the perfect place for an Eden.

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 the 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 four heads.

I am not asking this question to atheists lol.......

You people are weird Lil. I wish I could find the guy who said that. He gave a great logical response. I should have saved it to my bookmarks.

Thanks Gabe that was what I was looking for.

Answer 1

Suspected locations
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

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Where was the Garden of Eden really located? Africa?
Someone here said that it could have been a possibility that Eden was in Africa, and I think it's true because of the variety of flora and fauna that Africa used to have. It would have been the perfect place for an Eden.

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there...

Answer 3

In my search for the Garden of Eden I came across a site that has some very interesting information and it also has some ideas that are quite bizarre. There is information however that just might show the true location of the birthplace of mankind. Go to the website in the Source sectioon and you will find the entire article along with maps and LANDSAT images from space.

Excerpts from - Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?

By Dora Jane Hamblin

*By using an interdisciplinary approach, archaeologist Juris Zarins believes he's found it--and can pinpoint it for us. The author, a frequent contributor, met Dr. Zarins and his Eden theory when writing of Saudi archaeology (September 1983) and has followed his work since.

*"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed" (Genesis 2:8). Then the majestic words become quite specific: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 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" (Genesis 2:10-14).

But where now are the Pison and the Gihon? And where, if indeed it existed as a geographically specific place, was the Garden of Eden? Theologians, historians, ordinary inquisitive people and men of science have tried for centuries to figure it out. Eden has been "located" in as many diverse areas as has lost Atlantis. Some early Christian fathers and late classical authors suggested it could lie in Mongolia or India or Ethiopia. They based their theories quite sensibly on the known antiquity of those regions, and on the notion that the mysterious Pison and Gihon were to be associated with those other two great rivers of the ancient world, the Nile and the Ganges.

*Another favorite locale for the Garden had been Turkey, because both the Tigris and the Euphrates rise in the mountains there, and because Mount Ararat, where Noah's Ark came to rest, is there. In the past hundred years. since the discovery of ancient civilizations in modern Iraq, scholars have leaned toward the Tigris-Euphrates valley in general, and to the sites of southern Sumer, about 150 miles north of the present head of the Persian Gulf, in particular.

LANDSAT spots a "fossil river"

*At this stage in his thesis, Zarins goes back to geography and geology to pinpoint the area of Eden where he believes the collision came to a head. The evidence is beguiling: first, Genesis was written from a Hebrew point of view. It says the Garden was "eastward," i.e., east of Israel. It is quite specific about the rivers. The Tigris and the Euphrates are easy because they still flow. At the time Genesis was written, the Euphrates must have been the major one because it stands identified by name only and without an explanation about what it "compasseth." The Pison can be identified from the Biblical reference to the land of Havilah, which is easily located in the Biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:7, 25:18) as relating to localities and people within a Mesopotamian-Arabian framework. Supporting the Biblical evidence of Havilah are geological evidence on the ground and LANDSAT images from space. These images clearly 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.

Answer 4

I remember hearing and tend to believe the answer is Iraq-which also the site of ancient Babylon, which Saddam Hussein was in the process of rebuilding (though the Bible said this would never happen), making himself the new Nebuchadnezzar. We all know how he wound up: pathetically hiding under a little wooden house in the middle of nowhere.
If I can find my resources I'll try to message you. I've not been having any luck. As for where the garden is now, probably Heaven, until the time that it comes back to this earth in the future when God comes to live here with us.
See Isaiah 66 and Revelation 21. Blessings. Buttercup

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Answer 6

It's generally excepted to be in Iraq, but with skepticism because some feel the flood destroyed the original location.
That the river layout we have now, is different than during the days of Genesis.
I feel it could be in Iraq, because of some of the oldest finds are also there.

Answer 7

Garden Of Eden is also known as Paradise, I believe It's refer to Heaven.....

Answer 8

My guess would be the Olduvai Gorge, located in northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley.

Answer 9

It could have been anywhere because the flood from Noahs Arc would have washed it away.
And besides an angel with a sword of fire was put at the entrance to keep people out.

Answer 10

It is located in Jackson county Missouri.