Staff Review by Carol Ann Strahl:
A charming, century-spanning journey about the search for the Garden of Eden.
"Science vs. Religion" has become a major dichotomy in this society. The author introduces us to a
plethora of churchmen, archaeologists, botanists, and educators, all with their agendas regarding this topic.
Some of the locations that have been espoused to be the Garden of Eden include West Florida, the North Pole, Chinese Turkestan, the State of Ohio, Mesopotamia, beneath the Persian Gulf. Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, told his followers the Garden of Eden was located in Independence, Missouri!
A fascinating fact: the ancient Sumerian creation stories are very close to the story written down by Hebrew scribes at a much later time.
This is truly a fascinating read. If you are a seeker, this book will certainly increase your interest in Biblical history.
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In searching for the 'Garden' there may be a insight from the title, Paradise lust, a obvious pun on Milton's Paradise Lost and lost it remains. But consider a few lines from Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis:
Call it not love for love to heaven is fled
Since sweating lust on earth usurp'd His name.
Under who simple semblance man hath fed
upon fresh beauty blotting it with blame,
which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain
but lust effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
Lust's winter comes, ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, lust like a glutton dies,
Love is all truth, lust full of forged lies.
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