Day 14 Devotion – Is the Garden of Eden Just a Myth?

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3:1

Secular scholars look at the stories in the Bible as pure myth unless they find good evidence otherwise. One thing that helps is corroborating evidence from archaeology or another culture that the story is at least based on true history even if the details of what really happened may be in doubt.
Archaeologists have unearthed a metal engraving called the “Adam and Eve Seal” from ancient Mesopotamia. This makes it much older than the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden itself. Notice in the picture that there is a man on the right and a woman on the left seated by a fruit tree. Behind the woman you can see a serpent slithering up like it is whispering in her ear. This find, at the very least, shows that ancient Mesopotamian cultures linked the beginning of mankind to this kind of story. It cannot just be written off as myth, there has to be some elemental truth to this event.
Returning back to our idea on where the Garden was located, let me mention that climatologists have confirmed that a valley by Lake Urmia in Iran once had very mild conditions and was full of fruit trees. It also contained beautiful rivers, marshes and served as home to a high diversity of animals. Today the city of Tabriz sits in this valley and it is a barren desert on the outskirts of town. David Rohl discovered a group of people called the Kerubim on the east side of the valley.

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24

The Garden of Eden is gone forever. There is no paradise hidden that we could still find on earth. The only way to the tree of life today is through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.