New Eden?

The Garden of Eden is not only real, but may have been discovered to be in a new location. “It wasn’t always like this; The climate was wetter and lusher, but still warm. The herds of game were enormous. [It was] a paradisiacal place.” The Garden of Eden was once said to be located in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East.  At that time, the area of Gobekli Tepe, with its lush, greener past, may have possibly been as much of a paradise as the Biblical Garden.“Carbon dating of organic matter adhering to the megaliths shows that the complex is 12,000 years old.” This would make the Gobekli Tepe site the oldest sign of humanity discovered in the world. In the Bible, God first creates the humans Adam and Eve to live a perfect life in the Garden of Eden; thus, the Garden of Eden would also represent the oldest site where humans had lived. If the Garden of Eden only was an allegory of or Hunter-Gatherer past, this site would very well represent such a paradise. For all of my life to the point that I read this article, I had assumed that the Garden of Eden had never been found. I assumed, like many others, that the Garden of Eden could only be between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. As of now, I am thinking that such a spot could be in a variety of places that were tracts of fertile land thousands of years ago, in which humans may have lived. Because I have assumed the location, and been told that the very same location was the location of the Garden of Eden, it will be difficult to change my opinion, however, discoveries such as Gobekli Tepe tend to reassure me of the factuality of Biblical texts.




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