By Jane Johnson (we invite input on this page but this is our understanding from encounter and relationship)
- Eden is translated paradise.
- Genesis talks about Eden and the Garden eastward in Eden.
- Psalms talks of Eden being the Garden of God.
TWO SEPARATE REALMS
- So two separate places. The original Garden (in east) is not the Garden in the Bible that then had the tree of knowledge of good and evil in it.
- Eden ( not the Garden east of Eden with the tree of knowledge of good and evil ) we believe originally was how it was intended to be on earth.
- So Eden we see has another purpose maybe with sons not yet born (i.e. in eternity) and sons with a body, but who never came out of the Garden with Eve at the fall (previous sons of Adam and Eve before Cain possibly).
- We are seeing a merging of Eden and new earth.
- New Earth is an ongoing now not a finished now.
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