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Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?
I recieved this in an e-mail, and I was wondering if there's any truth here.
1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq .
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq .
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq !
6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq !
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq .
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq .
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel .
10. Amos cried out in Iraq !
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem .
12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq !
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the Fiery Furnace!)
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq .
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq .
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq .
17. The wise men were from Iraq .
18. Peter preached in Iraq .
19. The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon, which was a city inIraq!
What parts are true? Which aren't?
23 Answers
- NONAMELv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Not much truth in it.
1. Garden of Eden = Iran
2. Cradle of Civilization = Lake Victoria, Africa
3. True
4. True
5. Abraham was from Mari
6. Nahor is a man, not a location
7. Mari again
8. True
9. True
10. True
11. True
12. True
13. True
14. True
15. True
16. True
17. Probably Iran or Idumaea
18. False - Pter meant Rome
19. False - Rome again
- 1 decade ago
I also recived this email, and have to agree that while we do not know exactly where all of this took place the best guess for most of it is Iraq. Because Iraq is such a large country, and because the travel in those times was limited to where the cities and water were located we can assume that a lot of what happened did infact happen in Iraq. The whole Middle East can claim some part of the bible happened right there, so this is not so surprising.
- Big BearLv 71 decade ago
Some of it is true, such as the Jerusalem falls to Babylonia, but Iraq was not named or settlled as Iraq until 1958. You can check on wikipedia.org for a history of Iraq and its settlements.
Biblically, the areas of Greece, the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Syria as well as Israel were where most Biblical events took place. This also includes Palestine, The Dead Sea area, and the Arabian and Eastern deserts.
If you are really interested in finding out, see if your local library or a website online has a Bible Atlas, showing maps of the regions where most Biblical events took place. This would help you quite a bit to visualize some of these events.
Also, if you read the Bible, there are maps in most Bibles showing the regions involved in the particular book you are reading, as well as in the introduction to the Book, which tells where it takes place if known.
Source(s): BA, Religious Studies, Philosophy - Anonymous1 decade ago
As strange as it sounds most of the list is quite true and correct. You may also want to know that the Plains of Megiddo are located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, the Plains are also known by a more frightening Biblical term, the Plains of Armageddon.
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- karen iLv 51 decade ago
other than the location of the garden of eden. Yes Iraq is an important place in ancient world history
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes I would say most could be true, the same if you follow what is happening there and surrounding countries now for years and currently. Is where our finale & greatest showdown will take place eg: valley of Megiddo (Armageddon). Read Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah etc…
- 1 decade ago
Yup, quite a few of those things did happen in the area that is now Iraq. I don't think all of them did, but quite a few did.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hmmmm And it makes you wonder why the iraqi People aren't all Christians or Jews....Hmmmm also some of what you said is true but so what...Everything in the bible happend in the middle east....and its been a very very crazy place...since forever.
- Jay ZLv 61 decade ago
I believe they are all true. Also, the ladder with angels ascending and decending that Jacob saw [Bethel] was on the border of Iraq.
Opps! I am wrong. Bethel was central Israel... sorry.
- JamonicanLv 41 decade ago
This is a good question I don't know if that is true or not but do your research, if the bible states this, then it's true. I don't know why you are so concerned. Is it because of the war and you can't phantom the fact that this is going on.