Garden of Eden

House of the first people

Earth originally consisted of only one continent

From a Biblical point of view, the planet Earth initially consisted of only one continent and once at one moment it was split into continents. What at some point could happen to the Earth in reality, scientists confirm today. German scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the name "Pangea" for this large  supercontinent, which is translated from ancient Greek means "the whole country." As a result of such a large-scale geo-event, part of the earth went under water and, as some believe,  wherever there was once an oasis called Eden, it could simply be sunk by water. That is, the geo-situation since the existence of Eden has undergone massive changes

Localization of the Elem Garden

The legend is silent about the coordinates of Eden on planet Earth. Researchers are inclined to believe that he was somewhere near or in the oldest Mesapotamia, that is, in the territory of today's Iraq or Kuwait

Snapshot of Eden's alleged place from space

The legend describes the Garden of Eden with amazing accuracy, naming the time of its creation, but is completely silent about its coordinates on planet earth:.

"The Garden of Eden was created before the creation of the world. After 1361, 3 hours and 2 minutes, heaven and earth were created. When the Lord began to create the Garden, He took the snow that was under His throne, and he made of it the foundation of the Garden of Eden, which is above our land."

Garden of eden

The Garden of Eden is a place where the first people could live carefree and happy. The Garden of Eden is also called "Paradise", which in translation from ancient Greek means "Zoo Garden", "Garden inhabited by animals."

Seconds before the disaster

Yiddish Bible Illustration (Yudengasse Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

The apple is traditionally considered the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, although the Bible texts use only the collective word "fruit" for it. Eve squeezed the berries and gave juice to her husband. Their eyes opened and they saw that they were naked. They plucked the leaves of the fig tree and made them aprons

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is an apple tree?

The legend says just the opposite

Traditionally, the apple tree is considered to be the fruit of the Tree of Life. Although there is no definite indication. In celebration of the creation day  In Judaism, it is customary for Adam to set the table with apples that are served together with honey, perhaps in order to instigate the bitterness that this fruit brought in the fall.  But besides this, nowhere else do we see the idea of ​​the fruit of the Tree of Life as an apple.  The Bible only says that Adam and Eve ate the "fruit", but it is not indicated which one.

Tree of knowledge   good and evil: fig tree?

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is the famous tree, the only one from which, under pain of death, a person was forbidden to eat fruits. After the fall, the Bible says, Adam and Eve opened their eyes and they saw that they were naked. And the traditions add to this story that they tried to pick leaves from the trees,  to hide his nakedness. But all the trees refused them this. And only the fig tree showed them their regret and gave its leaves to help them, because it is a tree  and it was that Tree that bore the fruits of the knowledge of good and evil - as the legend says. Other legends say that the fruits of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil were still just unripe grapes and evil and good were still mixed in the fruits. And you had to wait  only one day and the fruits would have already been allowed to man for consumption: either good and evil should have separated from each other in them, or good cleansed of evil,  whether any ripening processes were still needed ...

The tree of life is grapes?

According to some ideas, the fruit of the Tree of Life was grapes. Grape Juice Still Being Taken in Communion Today  as a symbol of eternal life.

The Cross of Christ as the Tree of Life

Christian legend of The Tree of Life

Before his death, Adam sent one of his sons to the Garden of Eden to bear fruit from the Tree of Life. Adam wanted to eat them so as not to die,  and live forever. His son, having come to the Garden of Eden, met an angel with a sword at the entrance. The son of Adam said that his father was dying and therefore needed the fruits of the Tree of Life. The angel replied that the fruits of  The tree of life can be taken only after two thousand years, but in order not to leave it with nothing, he brought him a branch from this tree. The son of Adam hastened to return to his father, but, coming back,  found out that Adam had already died. The grieving son planted a branch given to him by the Angel in the ground. The branch spun and a large tree grew out of it. And after two thousand years, a tree was cut down, and from wood  subsequently a cross was made on which Jesus Christ was crucified. In a figurative sense, He Himself became a spiritual fruit and was supposed to bring eternal life to man. In the traditions of the Orthodox  churches there are icons that depict the cross of Jesus as the Tree of Life. It is possible that the purpose of such a tradition was to show the origin of Christianity, which was at that time  still a young religion, from an ancient tradition: literally "from Adam."