The Garden of Eden - in Search of Biblical Eden

"... And the Lord God planted a paradise in Eden in the east; and placed there the person whom he created ... ". During prayer, we look to the east, and do not realize that we are searching for and can not find our ancient Fatherland, which the Lord created for us, and which we lost ... but maybe not forever?

What is a Garden of Eden?

The Garden of Eden is the magic place that God created for the first man, created him a wife, where together with Adam and Eve lived in peace and harmony beasts, birds, beautiful flowers and wonderful trees grew. Adam cultivated and kept the garden. All living things existed there in perfect harmony with themselves and the Creator. Two wonderful trees grew there - the Tree of Life and the second - the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The only ban was in paradise - there is no fruit from this tree. Violating the ban, Adam brought a curse to the earth, turning the blooming Eden into the paradise garden of the devil.

Where was the garden of Eden?

There are several versions of the location of Eden.

  1. The heavenly abode of the Sumerian gods is Dilmun. The description of the Garden of Eden is not only in the Bible, researchers have found Sumerian tablets, in which a wonderful garden is told.
  2. Archaeological research proves that the first domestic animals and plants appeared on the territory of Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
  3. There is an interesting point of view that Eden is not a geographical concept, it is a temporary epoch, in the days of which the whole world had an ideal climate, and the blooming garden was the whole earth.

Attempts to find the place where there was a garden of Eden on earth, began around the Middle Ages and do not stop today. There are also strange hypotheses - that paradise was inside the earth. Some scientists believe that exact coordinates can not be found, because Eden was destroyed during the Flood. Someone sees the problem of finding the Eden paradise in the seismic activity of the place, and the impossibility of identification for this reason. A huge number of scientific and pseudo-scientific hypotheses do not give an exact answer to the question of whether Eden existed on earth and, most likely, for a very long time will not.

Garden of Eden - Bible

Someone denies the very existence of the Garden of Eden. However, the Bible accurately describes its location. Eden is a territory in the east of which God created heaven. From Eden flowed the river and divided into four channels. Two of them are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the other two are an occasion for disputes, because the names Gihon and Pison are nowhere mentioned. One can say with certainty - the Garden of Eden was in Mesopotamia, in the territory of modern Iraq. In addition, geosynchronous satellites found that, as the Bible said, there were really four rivers in the interfluve between the Tigris and Euphrates.

Paradise gardens in Islam

Mention of the Garden of Eden is in many religions: Gianna is the name of the Garden of Eden in Islam, it is located in the sky, and not on the ground, the faithful Muslims will be there only after the death - the Day of Judgment. The righteous will always be 33 years old. Islamic Paradise is a shady garden, luxurious clothes, eternally young maidens and beloved wives. The main reward for the righteous is the contemplation of Allah. The description of the Islamic paradise in the Koran is very colorful, but it is made clear that this is only a small part of what the righteous actually expect, for it is impossible to feel and describe in words only known to Allah

Demons of the Garden of Eden

The bliss of Adam and Eve in Paradise did not last long. The first people did not know evil, without violating the only and main ban - not the fruits of the Tree of knowledge. Satan, noticing that Eve is inquisitive, and Adam listens to her, taking the form of a serpent, began to persuade her to try the fruit of the forbidden tree: "People will become like God ..." Eve, forgetting the ban, not only tried it herself, but also treated Adam. Many knowledge - many sorrows, the Serpent in the Garden of Eden made the unlucky ancestors to be convinced of this, when for disobedience the Lord condemned them to illness, old age and death.