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Apr 22, 2007 4:38 PM
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I read an article awhile ago about the garden of eden.
http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Archaeology/eden.htm
According to this they thought they found a place that might be it but I have never heard anymore so I am assuming they didn't find anything thing since it's been awhile.
Does anyone know anything about this or recall what the results were.
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Apr 22, 2007 5:01 PM
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I have "heard," (in the past sometime), that the Garden of Eden was located in or near Jackson County, Missouri.
I've no sources, articles or info. to provide or quote, at the moment, nor do I have time to research or answer queries,--maybe some time later on . . . .
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Apr 23, 2007 1:58 PM
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That is an interesting theory, Juliegal, but wouldn't fit with the description given in Genesis of the location of the garden in Genesis 2:10-14. (And I know that some of you will say that the Bible can't be read literally and that Eden never existed at all, but in the spirit of DFT, we can look at what the likely location would be if the account were accepted as true.)
It says that a river issued out of Eden, and from there that it parted into four different "heads", producing four rivers: the Euphrates, Hiddekel, Pishon, and Gihon. The Euphrates is of course well known in the Middle East, and Hiddekel is the name used in some ancient texts for the Tigris river (such as at Daniel 10:4). The Pishon and Gihon have never been definitively identified; some scholars believe they may have been only major canals or tributaries; others that they are now lost to the desert. Either way, this would definitively place the garden of Eden in the Middle East, and somewhere in the region of Mesopotamia.
Gimme's link provides one scholar's idea of where in the Middle East the garden might be, and identifies the Pishon and Gihon as two rivers in Iran.
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Apr 24, 2007 9:05 PM
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food for thought (rather long article):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden
got's no time to comment or debate. Too busy
completing a children's illustrated storybook of
mine. (nothing to do with Garden of Eden).
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Apr 25, 2007 5:54 AM
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HEY DFT FANS!!
I VE BEEN WATCHING THE SHOW ON MONDAY NIGHTS-8PM, AND THIS PAST MONDAY DFT WASNT ON!!??? I THOUGHT THE SHOW WAS GOING TO RUN THROUGH APRIL?? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!! DID THEY CANCEL THE LAST SHOWS????
DISTRAUGHT IN DALLAS
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Sorry, Distraught in Dallas, but season 3 has just completed airing on schedule...none of the episodes were canceled, although there was one fewer episode this season (only 12) because the season premiere on Atlantis was 2 hours long. There are reruns showing an hour later than usual, though, if that helps any...
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Apr 29, 2007 5:58 PM
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thankyou so much for the info!!
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This episode was absolutely insulting to anyone who has a real knowledge of the Bible. The first thing that comes to mind is that these so called "scholars" think that Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are separate accounts. Have they never heard of a forward or prolog?? Moses summed up the first 6 "days" in chapter 1 (during which man was created) and then since the point was obviously to tell the story of mans beginning he got down to details in chapter 2. He said in chapter 2 vs 4 "this is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created". That's where he began telling the details of Adam's story and his wife, not just that he was created during the 6th "day" as mentioned in chapter 1. (It's worthy to note that when Moses wrote Genesis in 1513 B.C.E. he said in ch. 2 vs. 3 "...and God proceeded to bless the 7th day and make it sacred, because on it he HAS been resting from all his work..." so this debunks evolutionists claim that the Creative Days were literal 24 hour days because Moses was still in that 7th "day" thousands of years later) Second is the talk of the rivers meeting near the Persian Gulf. In Genesis 2 vs. 10 it clearly says a river issued OUT of Eden and from there it began to be parted and it became four heads. When you think of a head of a river do you think of where it empties into a delta?? No, it's where it BEGINS. Trace the Euphrates and Tigris back to their beginning as a stream and you end up somewhere south of Lake Van. The rivers issue forth out of the mountains there. Anyone who thinks that geology doesn't change over time is a MORON. Just because the other two rivers mentioned in Genesis don't exist anymore doesn't mean they never did. The account also mentions the lands the rivers encircled....such as Cush for one. Do some research to find where these people lived and you'll get a general idea of how far the rivers flowed during Moses time. The head waters have moved from where they originally were thousands of years ago so that they are now separated, but they all must have began somewhere in the mountains that divide modern day Turkey and Iraq in the same general area where the Tigris and Euphrates now issue forth from. This puts Eden about 140 miles SW of Mt Ararat and a mile or 2 S of Lake Van. My guess is somewhere in the area of Behcesaray Turkey. But it's not like the original garden still exists today. It would've been wiped out by the Noachian Flood, and even if you don't believe in that, it would now be overgrown and blended into every wild forest around it. The tree was a test for Adam and Eve to see weather they would choose to live by Gods standards, not some everlasting plant that would still be there today. Nor does the Bible say that the rivers had any special powers...Their perfection and life came from God, when they chose to separate themselves from Him they cut off their life source and began to die and 'thus sin and death spread to all mankind'. Thirdly......that's all the rant I have time for now. Goodnight
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