Posted on 10/17/2006 6:10:35 AM PDT by NYer
I think Eden is under the Persian Gulf somewhere. God placed an angel at the gates in order to keep folks from ever entering it. This digsite is not Eden.
I had forgotten about that! Thanks.
What a great story! I wonder if this story will make the news like all the killing does. Looks like a story like this would be right up their alley, but they don't like reporting anything good going on in Iraq.
garbage ... agriculture stared in east Asia too and most probably earlier
adam ... red clay formed from.. not mud
In Revelations in the Bible, they talk about Iraq but call it Babylon. In the end times, its where the temple will be rebuilt. According to the Bible, Babylon will be rich and famous again and will be destroyed by fire in 1 day. Its called the whore of Babylon. The antichrist will rule there with an iron fist. I think we are going to lose this war or actually not lose it, the liberals will give it to Islam, the UN will move to Iraq and the antichrist will come from the UN and declare himself ruler of the whole world. New World Order?
I'm not sure how the experts determine the timelines.
I thought that was just to keep Adam and Eve out. And kind of like The Arc of the Covenant later on. At the time of the Jews wandering their way to the Promised Land, it was strictly forbidden to touch the Arc. If anyone touched it, instant death, but later on, things changed and the temple where it was stored was raided and the Arc was stolen. So I wonder if the angel at The Garden of Eden was removed, too. Alot of things changed AD.
It's not specific. Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Besides,I thought it was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?Wouldn't that be Iraq??
Wouldn't a parable fit under narrative prose? Jesus used them all of the time to illustrate his points.
See 118.
A lion makes sense in that area.
Either way, we agree it's not a reptile.
Placemarker Bump
We also agree this isn't the garden of Eden.
It took me a while but now I'm wondering about vulcanism as a source of "flaming swords"
I finally settled on lion as the "reptile".
Probably comets...maybe, asteroids. (dragons too)
Yeah, I can see comets also...with a near enough approach they could be just as disruptive, and they look more like flaming swords than volcanoes do.
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Modern structures are mostly temporary, being made of wood and other non-permanent materials. They go up fast and last a couple of generations. This structure was stone, took tremendous craftsmanship and certainly many years to build, perhaps even generations. That is why I would expect it to be the centerpiece of a civilisation, rather than a roadside attraction for a bunch of nomands as they wander by every once in a while.
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