The Garden of Eden. The place where God created humanity and where the serpent tempted Adam & Eve to rebel. This is perhaps one of the most well-known places mentioned in the Bible. But what exactly was the Garden? Was it simply a place that humanity was tasked to take care of or was it something more significant? On the surface, one can conclude that the Garden of Eden was simply a paradise. The Greek Old Testament (known as the Septuagint) uses the Greek word paradeisos, which is where we get the English word paradise.[1] It was taken from the...