Where was the garden of Eden located?

Question

There are references in the Bible to the land of Eden other than in the creation story. Where was the land of Eden?

Answer 1

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, 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.

Answer 2

The geographical location has been identified in current day southern tip of Iran if I remember correctly - however the exact location is unknown.

Two theories around the Garden of Eden are...,
#1. Eden no longer exists because it was destroyed in the flood.
#2. Eden is as pristine as ever, but hidden from humanity by the guardian Angel set over Eden after driving out Adam and Eve.

Answer 3

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed"

"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 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: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates"

So, get your ancient river map out and figure it out for yourself lol. But be warned, don't go looking for it, because it says that God "placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life". In otherwords, you can't get in lol

Answer 4

In the mind of the author. Actually it says God created a garden east of Eden.

Answer 5

Yes it was here before..somewhere in Mesopotamia. But now, its obvious for me that it cant be on earth this time. The sword that is guarding the tree of life (Gen3:24) might be a symbolism that God placed it somewhere away from our sight and desire to explore it. This earth is so devastated and corrupted not only by sin but by man's "technology" also.

What im sure of is that the beauty and glory of Eden will be brought back in the future after this earth was cleansed by fire. It might be included in the new heavens and new earth.

Answer 6

There was no literal land of Eden. The area known to the Biblical writers would have been what is known as Mesopotamia.

Answer 7

Antarctica

Answer 8

Eden is the Earth, most live in the world.

Answer 9

According to Mormons in Jackson County Missouri LMAOFOTFPMP

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/4809/mormon.html

I just noticed that some posters think the place exists today, is undiscovered, and guarded by cherubs. As Bugs Bunny would say, whatamaroon!!!

Answer 10

From the Bible passages regarding the Euphrates, Tigris river, I think it was in modern day Iraq.