Why are they looking for the garden of Eden?

[Archbob]

So, there are some archeologists that are trying to excavate areas around Iraq, and have been for years, to try to find the garden to Eden.

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

 

[Perfection]

I sthink it got destroyededed in that floody dealy, and peeps are just lookin' fro the remnants!

 

[Luckymoose]

I think the garden of eden is also known as the Sahara.

 

[GenMarshall]

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

That's just the mythos within the Holy Bible. The Garden of Eden is a metaphor for an ancient "bread basket" in the middle east. However, the Garden of Eden could be anywhere where a region used to have abundance of life and food but now is a desert wasteland.

The actual location where the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh describes is lost in the winds of history.

 

[Newbunkle]

So, there are some archeologists that are trying to excavate areas around Iraq, and have been for years, to try to find the garden to Eden.

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

Duh! They think if they find it it'll mean their religion is true, which means heaven exists, which means they'll respawn there when they die and advance to the next level, so it doesn't matter if they get pwned. They'll drop their loot, but it won't matter because there's better loot in heaven, or something.

 

[Slaughter]

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

Sword, that is the key word. So he has a flaming sword? Fancy. We have rocket launchers, assault rifles, grenades and anti-material rifles. That angel got no chance, pal!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I hear they have some crazy apples there. I wouldn't mind one.

 

[Shekwan]

Sword, that is the key word. So he has a flaming sword? Fancy. We have rocket launchers, assault rifles, grenades and anti-material rifles. That angel got no chance, pal!

He probably has holy hand grenades too though. No way I'd piss off that guy.

 

[Newbunkle]

I hear they have some crazy apples there. I wouldn't mind one.

Mmm, free XP!

 

[gangleri2001]

Sword, that is the key word. So he has a flaming sword? Fancy. We have rocket launchers, assault rifles, grenades and anti-material rifles. That angel got no chance, pal!

Looks like you have never played Sid Meier's Civilization.

 

[classical_hero]

It was destroyed.

@CG, if it is indeed a myth, then why is it included in the Bible, especially considering that we are to stay away from myths? If there is any parts in the Bible that are clearly mythological, then how do you know that other parts are not mythological also? If you say that the OT is irrelevant then so is the promise of the Messiah, which is fulfilled in the NT.

 

[Phlegmak]

The Garden of Eden never existed. A lot of people believe weird stuff.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

So, there are some archeologists that are trying to excavate areas around Iraq, and have been for years, to try to find the garden to Eden.

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

There are naked girls running all around it. You DON"T want to find it? Homo.

 

[gangleri2001]

There are naked girls running all around it. You DON"T want to find it? Homo.

There was only one naked girl and she died long ago.

 

[philippe]

ethopia is the garden of eden.

 

[GoodGame]

So, there are some archeologists that are trying to excavate areas around Iraq, and have been for years, to try to find the garden to Eden.

But why would you want to find it? There's a flaming swords and a Cheribum guarding it. If you were the one to discover it, wouldn't you just get pwned?

There was a show about that on cable. Mainly it's biblical archeologists interested in the mythos, just like archeologists trying to find lost Egyptian cities. I gather one school of though on Eden is to try to figure out what the 'forbidden fruit' really was and go by where it was cultured in pre-biblical times to estimate where/what the garden was. Pomegranate was one idea, but the fig leaf was another. Apples were a late Roman addition to the story, IIRC.

But yeah, some fundamentalists of course point to the bibilical flood as changing geography severely, therefore eliminating the possibilty of identifying an Eden site.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Adam should have stayed with Lillith. There's a girl I can respect. But Adam was too much of a wuss to handle a real woman, so God had to clay him a docile one. A "helper" for Christ sake!

Gawd!

 

[Masquerouge]

You know what's going to happen, they're going to find some fossilized apple tree and go nuts.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

There was only one naked girl and she died long ago.

Way to be a pessimist gangleri.

 

[bigfatron]

It was destroyed.

@CG, if it is indeed a myth, then why is it included in the Bible, especially considering that we are to stay away from myths? If there is any parts in the Bible that are clearly mythological, then how do you know that other parts are not mythological also? If you say that the OT is irrelevant then so is the promise of the Messiah, which is fulfilled in the NT.

Exactly, CH, exactly....

Once you know that there are parts of the Bible which are clearly incorrect, then it can no longer be considered the inerrant word of God. You can deal with this problem one of three ways:
1) ignore it
2) pretend the inaccuracies aren't actually inaccurate
3) accept the Bible is not the inerrant work of God and move on with whatever consequences this has for your faith or lack of it.

Personally I go for 3), but I've seen both 1) and 2) used a lot...

BFR