A New Tale of The Garden of Eden - The Timeless Saga

Last week we hoped to start a study of Adam and Eve and their saga from Paper 74 of The Urantia Book, but we spontaneously decided to back up and study Paper 73, The Garden of Eden. So that is where we began this week. We read half of Paper 73 and will easily finish this week before beginning Paper 74 on Adam and Eve. We read and discussed the first four sections of this wonderful paper, including: The Nodites and the Amadonites, Planning for the Garden, The Garden Site Establishing the Garden. Human life on earth had evolved for hundreds of thousands of years before Adam and Eve were brought to this world. The tale of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden has undergone extensive elaboration through time. Interpretations and beliefs regarding Adam and Eve and the Garden vary across religions and sects. However, The Urantia Book brings amazing new detail to the Garden story. It reveals the human and superhuman heroes who helped to build it in preparation the arrival of Adam and Eve, the "biologic uplifters." This week we will cover the second half of Paper 73, including these sections: The Garden Home, The Tree of Life and finally The Fate of Eden. These papers about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, from Part III of the Urantia Book offer a fascinating and detailed account of momentous transactions in history, and they reveal, as never before "the origin of the well-nigh universal folk tale of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daughters of men begot an ancient race of heroes." "And so was the Garden of Eden made ready for the reception of the promised Adam and his consort. And this Garden would have done honor to a world under perfected administration and normal control. Adam and Eve were well pleased with the general plan of Eden..." Tune in to explore this fascinating revelation with us and gain new insights and understandings about our remarkable human history!