Garden of Eden

:This article is about the Biblical location. For the concept in cellular automata, see Garden of Eden pattern. For the novel by Ernest Hemingway, see The Garden of Eden.

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Garden of Eden, from Hebrew Gan Eden, גן עדן is the location of the story told in Genesis 2 and 3—part of the creation belief of the Abrahamic religions. The Garden of Eden story recounts how God created Adam and Eve, commanded them not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and how they were expelled from the garden after they disobeyed Him, having been tempted by a serpent, and ate the fruit. As part of the Expulsion, cherubim and a flaming sword were stationed at the entrance to the garden, in order to prevent man from returning and eating from the Tree of Life.

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Hebrew - Genesis - Creation belief - Abrahamic religion - God - Adam and Eve - Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - Serpent - Expulsion - Cherub - Tree of Life

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Christians traditionally associate the serpent with Satan, although there is no explicit identification as such in the text. However, an early gnostic Christian sect, known as the Ophites, turned this on its head, worshipping the serpent as the hero trying to impart gnosis, and casting God as the evil villain trying to imprison them in the creation of the demi-urge.

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Satan - Gnostic Christian - Ophites - Hero - Gnosis - Evil - Demi-urge

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In the tale the garden is planted "in" Eden, and accordingly "Eden" properly denotes the larger territory which contains the garden rather than being the name of the garden itself: it is, thus, the garden located in Eden.

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For the association of the Garden of Eden with Paradise, see below.

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