second star to the right and straight on till morning ... or is that neverland ?
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2007-01-16 07:21:02
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answer #1
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answered by Peace 7
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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. The Euphrates is well known, and “Hiddekel” is the name used for the Tigris in ancient inscriptions. 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 (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.
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.
2007-01-16 09:27:14
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answer #2
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answered by BJ 7
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Many people have come with their own interpretations, here is a summary from Wikipedia:
"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."
2007-01-16 07:24:44
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answer #3
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answered by Reindeer Herder 4
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We cannot pinpoint where it was but we do know the general vicinity.
Genesis 2:10-14 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
2007-01-16 07:29:11
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answer #4
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answered by cnm 4
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Peace!
The story of Adam and Eve is a myth picked up by Jewish writers after the exile. The real garden of Eden may not be even be on earth. Genesis 1-11 are parables meant to teach theological truths. You will get more out of these books when you read them in the same level it was written - spiritual.
2007-01-16 07:56:35
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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Tabriz, Iran
Another possibility was proposed by archaeologist David Rohl, based on archaeological evidence, putting the garden in north-western Iran. According to him, the Garden was located in a vast plain referred to in ancient Sumerian texts as Edin (lit. "Plain", or "Steppe") east of the Sahand Mountain, near Tabriz. He cites several geological similarities with Biblical descriptions, and multiple linguistic parallels as evidence. In the Sumerian texts, an emissary is sent north through "Seven Gates", also known as Mountain passes in ancient texts. Hebrew lore includes references to Seven layers of Heaven, the 7th being the Garden of Eden, or Paradise. Just beyond the seventh gate, or pass, was the kingdom of Arrata[citation needed]. The region today is bound by a large mountain range to the North, East and South, and marshlands to the west. The eastern mountain region has a pass leading in and out of the Edin region. This fits with the Biblical geography of Eden containing marshlands to the west[citation needed], and the Land of Nod to the east, outside the Garden. Geographically speaking, it would form a "wall" around the Garden, conforming to the definition of the Persian word pairidaeza, or Paradise, as a "walled garden or park". Additionally, this location would be bound by the four biblical rivers to the West, Southwest, East and Southeast.
2007-01-16 07:32:25
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answer #6
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answered by carltuesday 2
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Yes open the book titled the Bible i know the dedication page is missing but dont worry read the first 6 chapers it will tell you where to go oh heck no thats not right sorry im contradicting myself here it must be 5 chapters back ahhhhhhh its saying thats not right either help help me im lost now
2007-01-16 07:32:08
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answer #7
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answered by shannara 4
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You can find the boundry lines in Gen.2:9-14
2007-01-16 07:22:27
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Everywhere. It was lost when mankind turned away from the source & got lost in subject & object.
2007-01-16 13:32:39
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Apparently, you can book a tour there:
2007-01-16 07:25:38
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answer #10
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answered by Randy G 7
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Latitude and longitute, or celestial coordinates, or altitude and azimuth?
2007-01-17 14:04:42
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answer #11
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answered by Anonymous
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