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Genesis 2
New International Version (NIV)
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”The Journal of Crime and Punishment- Religion 17th May 2014
There probably was a garden of eden. It is said the cradle of civilization was the land around four rivers.
(Genesis 2:10–14 lists four rivers in association with the garden of Eden: Pishon, Gihon, the Hiddekel, and the Euphrates. It also refers to the land of Cush - translated/interpreted as Ethiopia, but thought by some to equate to Cossaea, a Greek name for the land of the Kassites.[8])
If this was the location of the Garden of Eden, it doesn't exist any more. Possibly a river flowed out of the Mediterranean, but it has since been blocked, possibly by an earthquake. Possibly there was a woman called Eve, who was genetically engineered, and had green eyes. Adam and Eve may have had an apple tree which was also inhabited by a poisonous serpant, but it was protecting their tree, and although the inhabitants were allowed to pick the apples from all the other apple trees, this was their tree, and the serpant would bite anybody else, because they did not talk to it as Adam and Eve did, but also didn't see the green snake hiding in the branches, and their bodies lay on the ground around the tree as they died from the bite of the snake. After that, people lost the ability to talk to animals and snakes, and thus their relationship with nature changed. Who knows?
/wiki/Forbidden_fruit#Identifying_the_fruit
Apple
In Western Europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple, possibly because of a misunderstanding of, or a pun on mălum, a native Latin noun which means evil (from the adjective malus), and mālum, another Latin noun, borrowed from Greek μῆλον, which means apple. In the Vulgate, Genesis 2:17 describes the tree as de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali: "but of the tree (lit. wood) of knowledge of good and evil" (mali here is the genitive of malum). The larynx in the human throat, noticeably more prominent in males, was consequently called an Adam's apple, from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit sticking from Adam's throat as he swallowed.
The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, in Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with "the LORD God"(v.7) creating the first man (Adam), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden".(v.8)
The man was free to eat off of any tree in the garden, but forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Last of all, the LORD God made a woman (Eve) from a rib of the man to be a companion to the man. In chapter 3, the man broke the commandment and ate of the forbidden fruit, and was sent forth from the garden to prevent him from eating also of the tree of life, and thus live for ever. East of the garden there were placed Cherubims, "and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life". (Gen.3:24)
Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years, since its legendary founding in 753 BC. Rome is one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe. It is referred to as "The Eternal City", a notion expressed by ancient Roman poets and writers. In the ancient world it was successively the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as one of the birthplaces of Western civilization. Since the 1st century AD, Rome has been considered the seat of the Papacy and in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic.
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Rome was founded in its present location, but there is a story which persists about the role of the inhabitants of a region nearby who are called the Sabines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome#Earliest_history
Legend of Rome
The origin of the city's name is thought to be that of the reputed founder and first ruler, the legendary Romulus.[6] It is said that Romulus and his twin brother Remus, apparent sons of the god Mars, who were suckled by a she-wolf after being abandoned, decided to build a city.
To provide his citizens with wives, Romulus invited the neighboring tribes to a festival in Rome where he abducted the young women from amongst them (known as The Rape of the Sabine Women). After the ensuing war with the Sabines, Romulus shared the kingship with the Sabine king Titus Tatius.[8] Romulus selected 100 of the most noble men to form the Roman senate as an advisory council to the king. These men he called patres, and their descendants became the patricians. He created three centuries of equites named Ramnes (meaning Romans), Tities (after the Sabine king) and a third called Luceres (Etruscans). He also divided the general populace into thirty curiae, named after thirty of the Sabine women who had intervened to end the war between Romulus and Tatius. The curiae formed the voting units in the Comitia Curiata.[9]
Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill and surrounding hills approximately 30 km (19 mi) from the Tyrrhenian Sea on the south side of the Tiber. Another of these hills, the Quirinal Hill, was probably an outpost for another Italic-speaking people, the Sabines. At this location the Tiber forms a Z-shape curve that contains an island where the river can be forded. Because of the river and the ford, Rome was at a crossroads of traffic following the river valley and of traders traveling north and south on the west side of the peninsula.
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Again, possibly, the Romans under a man called Romulus killed off some
of the Sabine men, and took their women back to Rome to be their wives. Whether the women agreed to this is a fact lost to history, but again, possibly, one of these women, a green eyed wife of one of the Sabine leaders was taken back to Rome, and bore a son, who became a leader of the Romans, because he was born into the leading family.
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Was he the same man who had been the husband of this woman, was killed, and then became her son? Who knows? Does it matter? perhaps not except to those who thirst for the truth.
Compare that situation to that of the Queen of England, and of the royal family. Here is an hereditary monarchy (not a Heroditary Monarchy as under King Herod in the days of Jesus) which used to exercise absolute rule over a Kingdom, has become a constitutional manarchy but still passes power through the family.
Here the wife (Dianna Spencer) of the heir to the throne (Prince Charles), after she had produced an heir, (Prince William) divorced her husband and began a relationship with the son of a wealthy businessman, (Dodi Fayed), but was killed in a car accident, and the future king remarried the divorced wife (Camilla Parker Bowles) of a British Army Officer (Andrew Parker Bowles).
Here the wife (Dianna Spencer) of the heir to the throne (Prince Charles), after she had produced an heir, (Prince William) divorced her husband and began a relationship with the son of a wealthy businessman, ( Dodi Fayed), but was killed in a car accident, and the future king remarried the divorced wife (Camilla Parker Bowles) of a British Army Officer (Andrew Parker Bowles). next page