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To: EnjoyingLife

Where the Garden of Eden used to be?


4 posted on 10/28/2013 6:23:58 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You’re probably thinking Shat-Al-Arab (meaning “sandman poop”) in Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates flow together, forming three rivers. This region, once a temperate, fertile river valley at the cradle of civilization, is now a desert. Anti-literalist historians figure it is the source for the “Eden myth” as they call it, which they claim is based on this edenic site becoming unliveable.

Aquinas and many others argued that Eden was not corporeal.


10 posted on 10/28/2013 8:31:52 AM PDT by dangus
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You’re probably thinking Shat-Al-Arab (meaning “sandman poop”) in Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates flow together, forming three rivers. This region, once a temperate, fertile river valley at the cradle of civilization, is now a desert. Anti-literalist historians figure it is the source for the “Eden myth” as they call it, which they claim is based on this edenic site becoming unliveable.

Error: I meant that Aquinas and many others argued that Eden WAS corporeal.


11 posted on 10/28/2013 8:32:54 AM PDT by dangus
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