YES Eden was (and is) a real place.
Who cares what “expert” “archaeologists” “think”. I’ll go with the Word of GOD, thank you very much.
Considering that this piece came from National Geographic, I am surprised it wasn’t MORE critical about the existence of Eden.
I think you can figure out where it might be by the locations of civilizations that arose suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. I could be wrong, but civilizations would fan out from a central location. So, they would only have to map out where these civilizations are and see if there is a central location where they seem to fan out from.
That Old Serpent 🐍 Called the Devil and Satan:
Yea, hath God said?
The same old tricks from That Old Serpent 🐍
I don’t think God has ever been cited as the author of the book of Genesis. Do you think He said “Let there be light.” Who’d he say it to? Who heard it? Do you believe in the literal biblical account of the Tower of Babel as an explanation for the many languages?
Yes, “was” is the operative term for its appearance and configuration in the antediluvian world. Funny how science acknowledges the Great Flood (while trying to deny it at the same time; doublethink) but somehow fails to conceive of geographical changes caused by it.
Amen!
As will I.
They need the pretext of a question to disguise their otherwise laughable, vitriolic denunciation of anything to do with God or His word.
Their conclusions are always the same: no, Paul didn’t write 2 Timothy; no, Jesus didn’t REALLY say that; no, Isaiah couldn’t have been authored by Isaiah….
Second semester freshman year of college in ’03, I took a New Testament class at a public NC university. I already knew the New Testament backward and forward and figured it would be an easy A.
The textbook was 600 pages of drivel from some “Methodist” university in Texas. Filled with academic chapters tearing apart the scriptures, which I could easily refute just by going to the text.
It didn’t take long to realize all the “correct” answers to the quiz and test questions would be the exact opposite of what I knew from the NT. So I didn’t study.
After the first major exam, the flamboyant and elderly professor asked the highest scorer to stand up and advise the rest of the lecture hall “how I studied for the exam!”
I stood, calmy said “I didn’t,” and sat back down. The look on his face was priceless. It’s basically all I got out of my degree. :0