Where was the garden of Eden?

Question

Does anyone know exactly where on Earth the Garden of Eden was? My friends and i are very curious, we would like to go and check it out oneday c",)*

Answer 1

The Garden of Eden was a region in which the Creator planted a garden-like park as the original home of the first human pair. The statement that the garden was “in Eden, toward the east,” apparently indicates that the garden occupied only a portion of the region called Eden. (Gen 2:8.) However, the garden is thereafter called “the garden of Eden” (Gen. 2:15 - and, in later texts, is spoken of as “Eden, the garden of God” (Ezekiel 28:13.), and as “the garden of Jehovah.”—Isaiah 51:3.

The Garden of Eden seems to have been an enclosed area, bounded, no doubt, by natural barriers.

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” (Gen. 2:8, Dyington.) 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. Gen. 2:9, 10, 15-18, 21, 22; 1:28; 3:8-19.

Location of Eden. 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. (Gen. 2:10-14) The Euphrates (Hebrew, Perath′) is well known, and “Hiddekel” is the name used for the Tigris in ancient inscriptions. (Compare also Daniel 10:4.) 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 North of the Mesopotamian plains, the area where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have their present sources. Thus The Anchor Bible (1964), in its notes on Genesis 2:10, states: “In Hebrew the mouth of the river is called ‘end’ (Josh. xv 5, xviii 19); hence the plural of ro’s ‘head’ must refer here to the upper course. . . . This latter usage is well attested for the Akkadian cognate resu.” 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 225 kilometers (140 miles) South West of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers South 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.—Gen. 3:24.

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.—Gen. 2:15 -

THE GARDEN of Eden was “a paradise of pleasure,” and in that sense it will be restored. (Genesis 2:8, Douay Version.) The original Paradise covered a limited area of the globe. But Jehovah purposed that its borders were to be extended outward, all around, by the growing human family until Paradise enveloped the entire earth and enrobed it with exquisite natural beauty. (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:8, 9, 15 -
What will the restored global Paradise be like? How will it be different from the original garden of Eden?

God will return to the lower creatures any lost measure of fear of humans. Thus we can look for the charming description of animal life that is set out in Isaiah 11:6-9 to have a literal fulfillment: “The wolf will actually reside for a while with the male lamb, and with the kid the leopard itself will lie down, and the calf and the maned young lion and the well-fed animal all together; and a mere little boy will be leader over them. And the cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down. And even the lion will eat straw just like the bull. And the sucking child will certainly play upon the hole of the cobra; and upon the light aperture of a poisonous snake will a weaned child actually put his own hand. They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea.” Similarly, Isaiah 65:25 - “The wolf and the lamb themselves will feed as one, and the lion will eat straw just like the bull; and as for the serpent, his food will be dust.” The beauty and abundance of that earth-wide garden of Eden is beyond our imagination. But the Bible does give us a prophetic description of it in the 65th psalm, addressed to God. In part, this psalm says: “You have turned your attention to the earth, that you may give it abundance; you enrich it very much. The stream from God is full of water. You prepare their grain, for that is the way you prepare the earth.” No droughts then but, rather, “copious showers”! (Psalm 65:1, 9-13.) There will be an abundance of food for all earth’s inhabitants. The global garden of Eden will have complete weather control.

No reason for any tears of sorrow then. Jehovah’s prophetic Word assures us: “And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.”—Revelation 21:3, 4.

10 This abundance is also foretold at Isaiah 25:6: “Jehovah of armies will certainly make for all the peoples, in this mountain, a banquet of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of wine kept on the dregs.” The inhabitants of the restored Paradise will eat well-oiled dishes that sustain the heart and make the face shine. There will be “an overflow.”—Psalm 72:16. & 145:16. It will be a global garden of Eden adorned with vegetation and trees—good to look at and producing food for sustaining creature life in perfection.

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Answer 2

answer: the only ingredient the Bible tells us with reference to the backyard of Eden’s region is latest in Genesis 2:10-14, “A river watering the backyard flowed from Eden; from there it replaced into separated into 4 headwaters. The call of the 1st is the Pishon; it winds interior the path of the completed land of Havilah, the place there is gold…The call of the 2d river is the Gihon; it winds interior the path of the completed land of Cush. The call of the third river is the Tigris; it runs alongside the east portion of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.” the suitable identities of the Pishon and Havilah rivers is unknown, however the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are nicely time-commemorated. If the Tigris and Euphrates pronounced are the comparable rivers via those names at present, that would placed the backyard of Eden someplace interior the middle East, in all hazard in Iraq. It won't be able to be mere accident that the middle East region is the place the planet replaced into maximum lush—the situation the place the backyard of Eden replaced into located. If oil is, as maximum scientists have faith, usually decayed vegetation and animal understand that has decomposed, then it fairly is the section the place we would anticipate the final deposits of the substance we call oil. because of the fact the backyard replaced into the epitome of perfection, it stands to reason that the decomposition of the earth’s maximum suitable and luxurious organic and organic supplies could produce super shops of the earth’s ultimate oil. human beings have looked for the backyard of Eden for hundreds of years to no avail. there are assorted places that individuals declare to be the unique region of the backyard of Eden, yet we are able to't be beneficial. What exceeded off to the backyard of Eden? The Bible would not especially say. that is in all hazard that the backyard of Eden replaced into thoroughly destroyed interior the Flood or that it lies decomposing into oil buried below centuries of sand deposits.

Answer 3

It is said that everything that exists on our World has a double in the Spirit world. Some believe Eden was actually in the Spirit world. Eden, (Paradise)? Heaven, (Paradise)? The Fall from Grace being our spirits falling from Heaven?
The Hebrews wrote the Old Testament, and their teachings say the Story of Eden is symbolic. The tree of Knowledge and Life are the same basically. As a tree symbolizes the dimensions as they rise from where we are up to the Source of Life. Knowledge coming down the dimensions from our Creator to us. And Life the ascension of our spirits back up the dimensions.
The serpent has always been a symbol for knowledge. Like the serpents on the staff of the Medical Association, which had to be toned down because of ignorance. But knowledge can be destructive. Like nuclear power can be used to create energy, or to destroy.
Eve, being made from Adams "rib", the middle of his body. Shows that woman is not above , nor below a man in the eyes of our Creator.
I wonder sometimes if the speaking of the "waters",
(spiritual forces, read 1st book of Genesis carefully). Of the Euphrates "drying up" in Revelation. Actually talks about something that will take place on a spiritual level. That protective spiritual forces will be weakened by the works of evil, and allow a spiritual army to attack our World. It is said the power of the 200,000,000 "man" army will be in thier mouths. The Power of the Spoken Word? And they might not be an Earthly army. Like China or whatever they claim.
That's just my personal point of view. And I never claim my personal point of view is Universal Truth.

Answer 4

A) There is NO Garden of Eden.

B) If you want the place where man first arose then go the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania.

C) If you insist on finding the site the Bible claims, then take a platoon of marines, body armor and plenty of arms and ammo because it's in a war zone, over the river, just south and a smidge east of Baghdad.

D) BTW, Baghdad is NOT ancient Babylon. Babylon's ruins lie much further east, in Iran.

Answer 5

The Garden of Eden is a metaphor.....it is like asking where the 10 virgins of Jesus' parable lived... as such it represents the concept of humankind's perfect fellowship with God that was broken by sin created when man exercised his free will, which was inevitable. Knowing this God became a man, lived among us, was crucified, died and rose again so that the fellowship once broken could be restored.

Answer 6

In the 1990s, David Rohl claimed to have found it in a beautiful alpine valley beneath extinct Mount Sahand in the Zagros Mountains of Iran.

Answer 7

some say the garden of Eden was someplace in what is now called Iraq, but nobody will ever know for sure

Answer 8

It was known as The Gardens of Babylon.

Answer 9

I saw on the Discovery channel a few weeks back that after researching, they claim it to have been in Iran. You may can access that info from them.

Answer 10

Somewhere east of Babylon....(Baghdad....in Iraq)

Where the Tigris & Euphrates rivers met.

You might want to wait on visiting there.......people over there hate us Christians