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The Canadian 'National Post' reported on 11 January 2001 a claim that the Garden of Eden has been located. Michael Sanders, director of expeditions for the Mysteries of The Bible Research Foundation, in Irvine, California, said he found the site after a careful study of satellite photographs taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Michael Sanders says that the Garden of Eden is in eastern Turkey because the Tigris and Euphrates rise in the mountains there . In this region, Sanders identified four rivers and linked them with the rivers described in Genesis. These are the Murat River, the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the north fork of the Euphrates. This, he says, 'proves that the Bible's description of the Garden of Eden is completely and literally accurate.'
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What were the names of the rivers in the garden of Eden?
Genesis chapter 2 says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and that it had four tributaries, Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates.The Tigris, and Euphrates flow down through Iraq in western Asia, or the Middle East.The Bible says that the Pishon flowed to the north, although no such river is known to us.The Bible says that the Gihon flowed through Ethiopia, in the African continent, although no such river is known to us.A single river can not have tributaries in two continents, so there are real problems with the story of the Garden of Eden and its four rivers, two of which may never have existed. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that the Garden of Eden is a purely mythic place.
Is Africa the mother land or Israel?
The mother land? The "beginnings location" according to the Holy Bible (Genesis chapter 2:10-14) is where the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers were...that general area. Two of the rivers seem to have disappeared though the Tigris and the Euphrates still exist. Africa is the pro-evolution theory group choice of "beginnings location".AnswerSince the first humans evolved in Africa, it is understandable that some would wonder whether the biblical Garden of Eden was also in Africa. However, it seems clear that the biblical authors believed that the legendary garden was somewhere in the Middle East. Russia is the motherland. Israel is the holy land.
In what country is the Gihon River located?
A:The Garden of Eden is defined in the Book of Genesis by indicated by the four widely separated rivers, the Gihon, the Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates that supposedly flowed into it. Leon R. Kass examines this in his excellent book The Beginning of Wisdom. He says that there can be no single terrestrial place that would serve as the common source of the four widely separated rivers of Genesis. The Gihon and Pishon rivers have never been located and appear to have been entirely mythical.The one clue is that there is a small stream that flowed from a spring into the city of Jerusalem, far from the Tigris and Euphrates. This stream was not the river of Genesis, but the name of that stream could have inspired the name of the biblical river.Another answer:No one knows what the topography of the earth looked like before the flood. For all we know [and we don't]... "the dry ground that appeared" that God caused to rise out of the "water" in the creation account in Genesis 1, could have been "all one single continental mass." Or the continents as we know them today may not have risen to the surface until after the flood.The King James Version translates "Gihon" as compassing "Ethiopia"... which, today, is in Africa. The rivers in and around modern Ethiopia are many, and begin with almost every letter of the alphabet... none of which, under the letter "G" is "Gihon."Other translations... and the "Literal Bible" say "Gihon" surrounded "Cush"... a land [and a people] that remains in dispute among men as to its location and who they are. Although, today, the "Hindu CUSH" mountains are located in and around the regions of Afghanistan. But, no rivers compass Afghanistan today... it's a landlocked country.The Bible tells us... even shortly after the flood... that people spoke "one language" [Gen.11:1]. It wasn't until after the confounding of the languages [after the flood] that people began to separate themselves from one another, and "countries" [the various nations] began to form. So, the "land" that "Gihon" surrounded [Cush] wasn't a "country" in the sense of the "nations" as we know them today... but an unknown area of "land mass" that sank and was lost in the flood.The same goes for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, today. Are they the same rivers as named in Genesis 2... or were they lost to the flood, also, and the early post-flood generations, with fond memories of that "world they once knew," renamed the modern Tigris and Euphrates as a memorial to what once was [memorializing things being something for which modern man is still known]?The Genesis account, which has become a "myth" to the modern world... is verified by certain "inspired writers" of the New Testament... not to mention Jesus Christ, Himself [whom some say is also a myth]:"When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah's day. In those days BEFORE THE FLOOD..." (Matt.24:37-38 NLT New Living Translation).Jesus reveals that the Bible, the Word of God, is TRUTH [see John 17:17]. Therefore... while we can know that the "Gihon" and other rivers of biblical renown did exist as the Genesis account says they did... it still remains that we have no clue as to what land masses [or one single land mass, as the case may be] existed before the flood. And no one knows where those rivers flowed in those days.
Where in Eden did the Lord God plant a garden?
The Book of Genesis identifies four tributory rivers that went out of Eden, the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. Only the last two of which are clearly known to us, but the Gihon is described as being in Ethiopia, which is actually in another continent.Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that there can be no single terrestrial place that would serve as the common source of these four widely separated rivers. True, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers do meet, but the lands the text associates with the first two rivers are clearly separated from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the first to the north, the second to the south. This geographical impossibility tells us that the Garden of Eden was a purely mythical place. We can never answer where the garden would have been, because the story of the garden does not allow us to do so.
What are some facts about rivers?
Rivers have water in them.
What are some rivers of Florida?
there are 6,579,567,834,684,367 rivers in florida.
Are there any rivers in Maryland?
AnacostiaChoptankChristinaHawlingsMonocacyNanticokePatapscoPatuxentPotomacSassafrasSavageSusquehannaWicomicoWyeYoughioghenyThose are some rivers.
Do forests have rivers?
yes some forests do have rivers.
How are rivers and lakes used?
they can be but some are not. Rivers are not usually used unless they are spring rivers.
What is a dolphin's region?
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What were the geographical features like for the Cherokee Indians?
have u found the answer? i need to know... i have a report on the cherokee and that would be some good information...
What is the river that flows through England called?
Many rivers flow through England. the question cannot be answered without more information. Some of the main rivers are Thames, Severn, Trent, Mersey, Tyne, Avon.
