Background/History of Bible Gardens Everything written in the Bible is based on stories passed by word of
mouth from one person to another before being recorded. We must accept
on good faith that these stories are accurate. Also, words in the Bible
have been translated many times and in many languages so the actual meaning
might have been changed a little. On the third day God created landscapes
for the whole world. When man was created God provided him with food in
the Garden of Eden. The plants in the garden were wonderful. Man could
eat every meal in there for eternity as long as they do not eat from one
of these plants, which was an apple tree. Of course, they ate from the
tree and were not allowed to return to the garden to eat the plants. "The
lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man
whom he had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also
in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
After that mistake man made God said, "the ground is cursed because of
the sin now: Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you
shall eat the plants from the fields. This is when man learned how to grow
plants he needed to survive in the environment. In naming the plants there
are some differences because none of the disciples were scholars in naming
plants. With each person that has translated the garden descriptions, they
might have changed or reworded some of the plants’ names. You start to
read about the landscape even more around 400 B.C. to around 4 A.D. During
that period, they put more importance on the gardens. Yes, being the first
landscape in the world you don’t hear too much about that landscape today.
Most of the plants have been put into other landscapes, and there is no
mention of what the plant came from. Now when you are putting your Bible
Garden together, you must take into some consideration on the origin of
plants.
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