[HLPhat]

>>And I know of nobody who maintains that somewhere on Earth there is the western gate to the Garden of Eden

The King of Tyre evidently must have know where it was... since Ezekiel LITERALLY says he was there....

Ezek 28:11-13

11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

"'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;

NIV

...which is contradictory in the context of a literal Genesis:

Gen 3:23-24

23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east sidee of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

NIV

[AndyTheBear]

Indeed, Ezekiel must have meant it as literal since its in the Bible, and as we know, the Bible doesn't contain metaphors or analogies or idioms in any of its prophecies or creation narratives.</sarcasm>