Following each of these upstream, past the various lands, leads you to their headwaters. The Hijaz region also produces bdellium, a gum associated with myrrh or guggul plant.Ī corresponding theory is that the "there" or "thence" of verse 10 references greater Eden and not the garden, and that the description is of looking upriver from the garden into Eden and that from "there/thence" the river "separates" or "diverges" into four separate rivers. The Cradle of Gold at Mahd adh Dhahab in the Hijaz mountains is the primary gold area of the peninsula. Genesis 2:10-14 also states that "the name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." In the Biblical Table of Nations, Havilah is associated with Arabia but without a specific location being identified. In this theory, the Bible’s Gihon River would correspond with the Al-Qurnah in Iraq, and the Pishon River would correspond to the Wadi Al-Batin river system (also now called the Kuwait River) that 2,500-3000 years ago drained the now dry, but once quite fertile central part of the Arabian Peninsula from the Hijaz mountains 600 miles to the South West. ![]() Archaeologist Juris Zarins claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea at 29☄7′0″N, 48☃8′0″E, from his research on this area using information from many different sources, including Landsat images from space. This would account for four easterly flowing rivers. Satellite photos reveal two dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf near where the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia also terminate. ![]() The mouth of the river Tigris, a proposed location of the Garden of Eden. Southern Mesopotamia and The Persian Gulf I also don't believe in the evolution theory, but rather that man and woman were placed here upon the earth by God in some way (and it could be evolution, I don't know, but I just personally don't believe that), as were all the animals and plants.īut thanks for explaining your beliefs to me. ![]() I don't hold that the earth was created in 7 of our days, but rather 7 periods or eras, the length of which we don't know. ![]() My own personal belief is that Genesis isn't an allegory at all, but an explanation of real events. 53Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing.ĥ4 And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel.ĥ5 And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him: I have set thee to be at the head a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince over them forever.ĥ6 And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation and, notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation.ĥ7 These things were all written in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time.Īdam was a real guy, or so it seems from the D&C. I understand what you are saying, but to me none of that jives with what we learn in the temple or in the scriptures.
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