Question:
Where was the Garden of Eden planted?
Answer:
All that we know about it is that it was upon this earth. Some try to locate it now based upon Genesis 2:10-14. Those rivers would make it seem almost as though the Garden of Eden was located in Asia and Africa, but the names are there because of their meaning and not as proper names to indicate locality. We say we do not know because the world at that time differed from what it is now or has been since the Deluge. We cannot say how much change took place, but the apostle Peter tells us that men in speculating over these things wilfully forget that “by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world [cosmos, arrangement] that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.” 2 Peter 3:5, 6. Now, if the “arrangement,” or the “cosmos” that then was perished, we certainly have no right to endeavor to use the present cosmos, or arrangement, of the earth’s surface as proof of where some locality was then.
