The Garden of Eden is where some believe the first man and woman were created
2007-01-24 07:40:30
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answered by Anonymous
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The Garden of Eden was a paradise that God created, most likely somewhere in the Fertile Crescent, for the first humans to inhabit. Various scholars have attempted to determine its original location, but nobody is certain where it was. The Bible gives some landmarks, which were rivers, but rivers generally change their course over time, and if you believe that the Garden of Eden existed, then you probably believe that the Great Flood really did occur, and the flood could have easily knocked those rivers completely off course (as could earthquakes). Adam and Ever were banned from Eden when they sinned.
2007-01-24 07:44:47
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answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6
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Garden of Eden. The most celebrated garden of history is the garden of Eden. It seems to have been an enclosed area, bounded, no doubt, by natural barriers. The garden, located “in Eden, toward the east,” had an entrance on its eastern side. It was here that cherubs were stationed with the flaming blade of a sword, after Adam’s sin, to block man’s access to the tree of life in the middle of the garden. (Ge 2:8; 3:24) The garden was well watered by a river flowing from it and parting to become the headwaters of four large rivers. This parklike “paradise of pleasure” (Ge 2:8, Dy) contained every tree desirable to one’s sight and good for food, as well as other vegetation, and was the habitat of animals and birds. Adam was to cultivate it and to keep it and eventually to expand it earth wide as he carried out God’s command to “subdue” the earth. It was a sanctuary, a place where God representatively walked and communicated with Adam and Eve; it was a perfect home for them.—Ge 2:9, 10, 15-18, 21, 22; 1:28; 3:8-19; see PARADISE.
Although the Bible does not state how long the cherubs remained to guard the way of the tree of life, it may have been that such an arrangement existed until the Flood, 1,656 years after the creation of Adam. Untended by Adam, who with Eve had been driven out for their disobedience in eating from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and bad, the garden likely suffered deterioration. At any rate, it would at the latest have been obliterated by means of the Flood.—See EDEN No. 1.
The beauty of the garden of Eden was recalled centuries after the Flood when Lot viewed the whole District of the Jordan, observing “that all of it was a well-watered region . . . like the garden of Jehovah.” (Ge 13:10) Jehovah kept his eyes on the Promised Land, preserving it as an inheritance for Israel. Moses contrasts it with Egypt, where the Israelites had to do irrigating as in a vegetable garden, describing the Promised Land as a land watered by “the rain of the heavens.”—De 11:10-12.
Hope that helped. Here is a link to more info about the Garden of Eden...
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/11/15/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/10/1/article_02.htm
2007-01-24 07:51:36
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answered by wannaknow 5
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If your asking in a biblical sense it was the place where Christ first established life on earth. The "birthplace" of Adam and Eve if you will. Based on some description in the bible it is generally idealized as beautiful land full of all things that man/woman need.
2007-01-24 07:43:23
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answered by brett.brown 3
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The place in the Genesis where Adam and Eve lived after they were created by god. No, I was just kidding, I wasn't serious...
2007-01-24 07:40:51
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answered by FAUUFDDaa 5
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where Adam and Eve were in the very beginning
now thought to be Iraq
2007-01-24 07:41:11
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answered by Anonymous
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paradise made by god for people before they screwed up
2007-01-24 07:40:39
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answered by a_word_of_praise 2
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You mean actually or biblically?
2007-01-24 07:41:25
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answered by Sean 5
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