Where is The Garden of Eden?

Question

Just something i was thinking about =]
Where exactly is the Garden of Eden and is it accessible to humans?

Answer 1

I am going to have to get back to you on this one. There was a show on the History channel that had some very interesting info on this. The location would be where the Mediterranean Sea is now. The Bible says the garden is located where 4 rivers meet as one. It lists the Tigres and Euphrates and 2 others I will have to look up. Satellite data have shown that there are indeed 2 fossilized rivers that meet with the Tigres and Euphrates to form as one. This is at the mouth of the Mediterranean. I can't remember the specifics from the show, but they talked about God destroying the garden. This would be why it is no longer accessible to humans. I apologize for the missing details, but I will look into it when I get home from work.

Edit: So the other two rivers are Pison and Gihon. Also, it is not the Mediterranean Sea, but the Persian Gulf. The following is a description from the show I saw on the History Channel.
Paradise on Earth: did it exist? Can it be found today? THE HISTORY CHANNEL® devotes its authoritative resources to exploring these compelling questions.

The Bible says Eden was located east of Israel where four rivers meet: the Tigris and Euphrates and the Pison and Gihon. The latter two have long been considered mythical; however, recent satellite photography suggests these rivers existed in Iraq. Another theory places Eden's location beneath the Black Sea.

Do texts other than the Bible reinforce the idea of Eden? Both the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh and Ancient Greek texts speak of a 'paradise lost.' Sift through the evidence to decode an age-old mystery about how paradise was lost, and where it might be found.

Whether it was an actual place, or simply a compelling metaphor, the Garden of Eden remains a touchstone element of Western culture, and this in-depth exploration of its mysteries provides a marvelous, informative viewing experience.
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This link below shows a map, but this is several years before the show I watched. The map claims the one in the Persian Gulf is not Eden, which is hypothesized to be Eden from the History Channel show.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2001/0125eden_found.asp

Answer 2

The Garden of Eden was Evidently in what is known as the region of "Kurdistan" (includes parts of Armenia, Northern Iraq, Persia and Turkey)

The Bible speaks of both Eden and the Garden of Eden ("in the East")

• 1. A) The garden was within the larger region known as Eden. B) It had an entrance on its east side. - (Genesis 2:8; 3:24)
• 2. One river which issued into four rivers. - (Genesis 2:10a)
• 3. Located at the heads of the four rivers (indicating a northern location) - (Genesis 2:10b)
• 4. The Pishon river. - (Genesis 2:11)
• 5. The Land of Havilah. - ('where there is gold, the bdellium gum and the onyx stone.') - (Genesis 2:11, 12) Two people named Havilah are mentioned in the Bible. (Genesis 10:7, 29) The name seems to mean "sand."
• 6. The Gihon river. - (Genesis 2:13a)
• 7. The Land of Cush. - (Genesis 2:13b)
• 8. The Hiddekel (Tigris) river, goes east to Assyria. - (Genesis 2:14) - IDENTIFIED.
• 9. The land of Ashshur (Assyria). - (Genesis 2:14) - IDENTIFIED.
• 10. The Euphrates river. - (Genesis 2:14) - IDENTIFIED.

Interesting Mount Ararat, and Harran (Genesis 27) were Abraham's family was from are all within Turkey.

Answer 3

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. 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 4

The Garden of Eden is the dwelling place of God. Where is God? Look inside your heart, and see if you can find the Garden of Eden there.


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Answer 5

There are two possibilities:

1) It is buried under 800 feet of sediment (from the Flood)

OR

2) God whisked it away to the New Jerusalem before the Flood so it wouldn't be destroyed. The Bible says that the tree of life, which was in the Garden, will be in the NJ.

Answer 6

Ethiopia

Answer 7

It's in Iraq somewhere in the marsh of Basra.