What does the Garden of Eden represent?

Answer 1

It represents perfection, since it was the first place on earth in which man lived without sin. It was devoid of every bad thing, and it was here that the first people were able to communicate perfectly with God without the separation sin causes.

Answer 2

The garden of God means the garden of Eden where man had sweet uninterrupted communion with God until his fall. The phrase appears three times in the book of Ezekiel in The Bible, and refers to the fellowship God once had with the Devil before he fell from grace.

Answer 3

A few thoughts:

The Garden of Eden was planted by God "toward the east" (Genesis 2:8), filled with plants and trees beautiful to look at and good to eat (Genesis 2:9+16), and with animals that man had the responsibility to name and care for(Genesis 2:19+20). It was large enough to be watered by a river which split into four heads (Genesis 2:10-14), yet manageable enough to be cultivated and cared for by man (Genesis 2:15). The weather was mild and warm, as it's initial inhabitants wore no clothing(Genesis 2:25) and it was given to man as their first home(Genesis 1:28)(Psalm 115:16).

Answer 4

Garden of Eden 'جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ' It is defined as 'gardens of perpetual residence' or eternal gardens in the paradise for eternal life of true God believers who followed God right path and God blessed them with His mercy.

Quran says:

وَعَدَ اللَّـهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَمَسَاكِنَ طَيِّبَةً فِي جَنَّاتِعَدْنٍ ۚ وَرِضْوَانٌ مِّنَ اللَّـهِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ ﴿٧٢﴾

Meaning English translation:

{Allah has promised the believing men and believing women gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally, and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence; but approval from Allah is greater. It is that which is the great attainment. (72)}

(Quran, chapter 9, verse 72)

Answer 5

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says we should regard it as representing a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost.

Answer 6

It was a Garden, a very huge one that is, that was planted eastward in the land of Eden. And so it was called the garden OF Eden. That is, the garden, that was in the land, of Eden.

Answer 7

"Paradise of pleasure"