Garden of Eden lays in the Persian Gulf? Not a religious thread.

[Jumpin]

Dr.Grass said:

Jumpin said:

Well, like the City of Atlantis, the Garden of Eden is fictional; probably based on Mesopotamian Gardens, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. You don't need any documentary or additional texts other than the Bible to see where the authors wanted it to be located. It is written to exist in the Middle East, probably at the location of southern Iraq given the text; which mentions 4 rivers including the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.

Atlantis is not necessarily fictional.

Atlantis is as fictional as Thomas Moore's Utopia. It was invented by Plato in the text Timaeus and Critias to contrast the ideals of his previous work "Republic". It wasn't really until the 1600's and Francist Bacon saying that Atlantis might have been North America, that people actually seriously considered that it might be real. Plato didn't consider it real, as he wasn't writing history.