Is the Garden of Eden located in the Middle East or Africa?

Answer 1

The only thing the Bible tells us concerning the Garden of Eden’s location is found in 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 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.” The exact identities of the Pishon and Havilah rivers is unknown, but the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are well known. If the Tigris and Euphrates mentioned there are the same rivers by those names today, that would put the Garden of Eden somewhere in the middle east, likely in Iraq. People have searched for the Garden of Eden for centuries to no avail. There are various locations that people claim to be the original location of the Garden of Eden, but we cannot be sure. What happened to the Garden of Eden? The Bible does not specifically say. It is likely that the Garden of Eden was completely destroyed in the Flood.

Recommended Resource: Biblical Creationism by Henry Morris.

Answer 2

Based on the description of the rivers, it would seem that the Garden of Eden was in the Middle East, perhaps Iraq, (I've also heard Turkey).
It cannot be found for 2 logical reasons:
1: Without Adam and Eve to cultivate and care for it, the Garden probably did not survive for a very long time.
2: Assuming it did survive without human assistance, the Garden was very likely destroyed in the Flood.

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

It is believed by some that the Garden of Eden was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern day Iraq. Of course, there is no real evidence of this, just as their is no evidence that there ever was a Garden of Eden.

Answer 5

The traditional location for the Garden of Eden places it at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. No one has a definite location as yet.

Answer 6

We must remember that the whole earth was paradisiacal before the Fall. The Garden of Eden was a center place. After the Fall, there was no Garden of Eden or paradisiacal status on earth.

....Adam dwelt on [the] American continent....

Answer 7

According to the Biblical description and location, it was located in the Middle East

Answer 8

The Garden of Eden is not a place but representation of the state of existence in man's early stages. Literal translation of the Bible is dangerous.

Answer 9

Like Kait, I believe that the Flood would have drastically changed the face of the earth, so the description in Genesis may or may not still hold true.

Answer 10

Middle East.

Where?

Good question since there was a flood. The best place

MIGHT

be Babylon.