The Eden Myth

The Garden of Eden is one of the most famous settings in the Bible, a peaceful garden oasis God created as a home for Adam and Eve, before they made a dumb mistake that got them evicted. Here's the untold truth of the Garden of Eden. The main appearance of the Garden of Eden in the canonical Bible is, of course, in the book of Genesis, during the second account of creation that begins in chapter 2. Verse 8 says, "And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed." If you know of the Garden of Eden at all, you probably know the Genesis narrative: Eden was the place where God made a home for the first humans, filled with all sorts of plants and animals, including the famous Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which Adam and Eve were specifically instructed not to eat from. "This is the tree of Knowledge, from its branches, you shall no