What's happened to it? Does it exist off of the earth?
If not, where on earth is it? Did your god take away all the trees (good and evil, life, etc...)?
2007-12-28 02:18:59 · 24 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rev. Einstein - The why don't people who aren't like me (whatever that means to you) find it?
No, sorry. Try again.
2007-12-28 02:24:33 · update #1
The Mormons say it's in Missouri. Seriously.
2007-12-28 02:21:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
I'm not a six day creationist (assuming that's what you mean by "literalist"), but there actually is an answer to this question, as the bible describes the physical locale of Eden, using the conjunction of two rivers, two of which still flow today.
If the texts are to be believed, the Garden of Eden is here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=iraq&ie=UTF8&ll=30.803193,47.506256&spn=0.550851,0.933838&t=h&z=10&om=1
...near Al Qurnah in Iraq, where the Euphrates historically met the Tigris. American writer Bruce Feiler discusses visiting this place in his book "Walking the Bible."
2007-12-28 10:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of it like an Indiana Jones movie. you would really have to know your stuff to find this place and THEN once you found it, would you survive to get in there? That's prob. why it's not a disney land attraction.
Genesis 3:23-24
"So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life."
2007-12-28 10:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by Light 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's in the middle east. it is debated wether Mesopotamia(the cradel of civilation), Africa(where the first people were born) and the Persian Gulf. However the bible's discription( the rivers mentioned :Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates)says that the garden of eden is located in or near present day armenia
there was no tree of good or evil. there was a tree of life and a tree of knowledge. god never took any of that stuff away. you see we're writing on the paper made from the tree of knowledge right now. most of us don't know the tree of life, this is why we have short life and why animals don't listen to and why we have to work and feel pain, this is why we don't live in paradice.
2007-12-28 10:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by Dinny the Menace 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The creation story in Genesis relates the geographical location of both Eden and the garden to four major rivers (Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates), as well as a number of named regions (Armenia, Ararat, Yerevan or Armenian Highlands) [1](see Genesis 2:10-14). This seems to suggest a setting in the ancient Caucasus, specifically somewhere in or near Armenia.
Ok I don't think it exist anymore, but all things are possible by God. If he wants it there still then it is still there!
2007-12-28 10:21:13 · answer #5 · answered by sticky 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It used to be between the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq.
And yes there is evidence that that was in fact a forested area.
In my front yard right now I have 2 petrified logs that I personally found there.
2007-12-28 10:40:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wiped out in the flood. Originally it was in the Middle East.
2007-12-28 10:38:20 · answer #7 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the OT says that is somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
2007-12-28 10:23:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Off to the side of the shed of Eden
2007-12-28 10:21:42 · answer #9 · answered by Doug 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
West of Nod
2007-12-28 10:33:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋