in the bible it talks about the garden of eden. where in the world is it located?

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The Bible says that it was located in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which is currently Iraq.
 
It had to have been destroyed in the flood with the rest of the world.
My opinion, and opinion only, is the garden of Eden is what is now Israel.

Just a wild guess I have and no proof to really back it up. Just a guess.
 
There are several suspected locations. They include Southern Mesopotamia and The Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Iran, Jerusalem, Africa, Scotland and Jackson County, Missouri (yes, you read that right).
 
The location of Eden is in part to be determined from the description already given. It must be where there is a climate adapted to the production of fruit trees and of animals capable of domestication, and in general to the existence of man in his primitive condition. In particular, its location is supposed to be determined by the statements regarding the rivers coursing through it and surrounding it. There is a river (nahar) (Ge 2:10) which was parted and became four heads (ro’shim), a word which (Jud 8:16; Job 1:17) designates main detachments into which an army is divided, and therefore would more properly signify branches than heads, permitting Josephus and others to interpret the river as referring to the ocean, which by the Greeks was spoken of as the river (okeanos) surrounding the world. According to Josephus, the Ganges, the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Nile are the four rivers, being but branches of this one river. Moreover, it is contended by some, with much show of reason, that the word perath translated Euphrates is a more general term, signifying "the broad" or "deep" river, and so may here refer to some other stream than the Euphrates, possibly to a river in some other region whose name is perpetuated in the present Euphrates, as "the Thames" of New England perpetuates the memory of the Thames of Old England. In ancient times there was a river Phrath in Persia, and perhaps two. It is doubtful whether the phrase "eastward, in Eden" refers to the position with reference to the writer or simply with reference to Eden itself. So far as that phrase is concerned, therefore, speculation is left free to range over the whole earth, and this it has done.
 
Genesis 2:10 Â*And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 Â*The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 Â*And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 Â*And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 Â*And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.


GOD bless
 
It never existed. It was just a fantastic story that people made up after hearing other versions of it from other countries in the area.
 
It's pretty much been trampled and deforrested by now,just like the rest of everything good always has been.People with an ugly heart want ugly surroundings.
 
There is a show on the History channel called decoding the past. One of the shows was about where the garden of eden was located. It between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
 
Nobody knows. Some people think it was in iraq because of the rivers named in the Bible, but the garden was before the flood and the flood changed everything.
 
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