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So true -- we are only told some things: the most crucial things -- everything we need to know for our salvation.There are very few words, yet many books could be written. For example, Harvard University has over 200,000 books that talk about what we read in Genesis chapter one. John 21:25 "Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written."
Eden in the Bible is where Ancient Mesopotamia was. We have a description in the Bible where four rivers flowed out of Eden. Two of the were the Tigris and Euphrates. We are told the Garden was in Eastern Eden which would be on the Euphrates river. They did not cross over to the other side.It really doesn't belong here in the physical sciences
The physical size of Eden had nothing to do with theology. It has everything to do with the chapter in our Biology book that talks about a Biodiverse Ecosystem. Also, there are PhD's in Botney that teach at the universities in Jerusalem that are experts on the ancient wild plants in the Middle East and how they became cultivated. The main difference between wild and cultivated is how the seeds are distributed. If that is done by man or nature. Plants produce seeds when they are mature.really it seems entirely/solely a theological type question in my own view
The Bible tells us that Noah warned them for 120 years that there was going to be a flood but they did not believe him.
Did you ever read Genesis Chapter one? I have a book right here called: "The Songs of Trees". Genesis talks about the tree of life, the fig tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But JUST use the word TREE. There are likely thousands of books that have been written about trees, including guidebooks, field guides, scientific texts, and literary works.I doubt there are 200,000 actual different books on Gen 1,
Adam & Noah's world was Eden and we know all of Eden was flooded. Most likely still under water today.Perhaps they, like science does today, thought it was merely going to be a local one?
Adam & Noah's world was Eden and we know all of Eden was flooded. Most likely still under water today.
Funny! If someone could find the Ark though it would cause a serious theological problem, in that God wants *Faith from us, *not* relying on evidence to believe.What did the Ark come to rest on then?
Mount Ararat. That may be why they think the Black Sea was involved in Noah's flood.What did the Ark come to rest on then?
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
To often we hear about the Garden OF Eden. But the Bible says that the Garden was IN Eden, in the east. So there was more to Eden than just the Garden that God gave to Adam and Eve to dwell or live in and tend. Could be all of ancient Mesopotamia was Eden. The land between the rivers. As some like to say about the size of New Jersey today.
No it isn't the state of Victoria is a garden and we have the archeological evidence to prove it.Could be it was a metaphor within a metaphor. I can't say if the Garden State is a metaphor. I mean, is New Jersey a garden?
New Jersey seems to be about the size of Eden. Or ancient Mesopotamia. To give you an idea, the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, Sumer, emerged around 4000 BCE and covered an area of about 15,000 square miles in southern Mesopotamia. New Jersey has an area of approximately 8,722 square miles. So Eden could have been bigger than New Jersey today. I am sure there are gardens in NJ, like there was a garden in Eden.I mean, is New Jersey a garde
You (or chatbot) seem to have conveniently forgotten Schroeder was thoroughly debunked in this thread.Because we have science to explain trees to us. That is why we need science to understand our Bible. For example as I said before the show drawings of Adam and Eve covered with fig leaves. But we know that sowing needles goes back 40,000 years and they made clothing the same way we make clothing today. Their clothing was not warm enough to move north so God showed them how to use animal skins to stay warm. After they had sinned of course. History and Science helps us to understand the Bible.
But the quote goes back to Gerald Schroeder with a Phd in Physics from MIT. If you want to understand then go to the source of what I am talking about.
In trying to understand the flow of time here, you have to remember that the entire Six Days is described in 31 sentences. The Six Days of Genesis, which have given people so many headaches, are confined to 31 sentences! At MIT, in the Hayden library, we had about 50,000 books that deal with the development of the universe: cosmology, chemistry, thermodynamics, paleontology, archaeology, the high-energy physics of creation. Up the river at Harvard, at the Weidner library, they probably have 100,000 books on these same topics. The Bible gives us 31 sentences. Don’t expect that by a simple reading of those sentences, you’ll know every detail that is held within the text. It’s obvious that we have to dig deeper to get the information out.
Funny! If someone could find the Ark though it would cause a serious theological problem, in that God wants *Faith from us, *not* relying on evidence to believe.
Mount Ararat.
I would think they would take it apart to build something else out of it. When they tore down the temple in Jerusalem they used the material to help build the coliseum. Where they had the blood sports.Unless it was dismantled to make Noah's homestead.
I would think they would take it apart to build something else out of it.
Genesis 2:10Then Eden isn't still underwater, is it?
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