Owner: Eve
In a month or less, the hills surrounding of the Sacramento valley will be gold. The flowers will be parched, the air thick with smog and redolent with drying grass.
But for now, everything is green and growing.
The bees are busy and seem to be showing up in greater numbers than last year. The [...]
After Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were kicked out of Eden by God, who then sought to prevent the man and woman from returning to their idyllic home and enjoying the benefits of the Tree of Life. God’s chosen guardians were Cherubim.
So he drove out the [...]
The Tree of Life
The Garden of Eden must have supported an immense, fantastical orchard. The Bible notes a huge variety of trees — indeed, every kind of tree that looked nice and produced something edible. There were two special trees featured in the Garden: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of [...]
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
One of two significant trees in the Garden of Eden, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has been variously posited as:
Apple
Fig
Pomegranate
Tamarind
Grape
Iboga
Or it may just be a metaphor or symbol.
Whatever it was, God didn’t want his creations eating from this tree, and told them not to do [...]
Eve
After Lilith left the Garden of Eden, God noted that “It is not good that the man should be alone,” and ultimately Eve was created as a helper for Adam. This occurred in an interesting bit of surgery which involved God putting the first Man to sleep, taking one of his ribs out, and [...]
Lilith
Lilith was Adam’s first wife, created by God either before Adam or at the same time as the first Man, from the same dust in the Garden of Eden. She considered herself Adam’s equal and refused to take a submissive position to him (in sex or otherwise) and left the Garden on her own. [...]
Adam
The first man, formed from the dust of the Garden of Eden and given life by God. He was charged by God to name all the animals of creation and was allowed to try out any fruit in the Garden except the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, [...]
Where was the Garden of Eden? Possibly in the Middle East, but no one knows for sure.
Some Christians theorize that it was destroyed in a massive, worldwide flood (yes, that one with Noah and the Ark) and that it is impossible to confirm one location or another.
However, the Bible offers various hints, tying it [...]
What was the Garden of Eden?
Eden is a word coming from Hebrew, meaning delight. It is defined as:
The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve.
A delightful place; a paradise.
A state of innocence, bliss, or ultimate happiness.
The Garden of Eden features highly in Biblical creation mythology as the place where the first [...]
The most popular search term that leads people to this blog is, by far “garden of eden.” There have been a lot of different queries based on those three words.
Given the domain name and the name of this blog, it’s not that surprising, but I can only imagine the disappointment that people have when they [...]
