Mysteries of the Garden of Eden"

A History Channel documentary that explores the different theories of the Garden of Eden's location. It is titled "Decoding The Past - Mysteries Of The Garden Of Eden".

Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן Gan Eden Arabic: جنة عدن Jannat ‘Adn,)[1] is a location described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks about a garden in Eden (Gen. 2:8). This garden forms part of the creation and theodicy of the Abrahamic religions, often being used to explain the origin of sin and mankind's wrongdoings.

Where is the Garden of Eden?

Genesis 2:10-14

A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

The location of the Garden of Eden remains the subject of much controversy and speculation. The creation story in Genesis relates the geographical location of both Eden and the garden to four rivers (Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates), and three regions (Havilah, Assyria, and Kush).[2] There are hypotheses that place Eden at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates (northern Mesopotamia), in Iraq (Mesopotamia), Africa, and the Persian Gulf.

Archaeologist Juris Zarins claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea. On the History Channel's Decoding the Past, in the episode "Mysteries of the Garden of Eden", it is noted that circa 6000 BC, ocean levels were rising, and that near the present entry of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf there are geological traces of two fossil rivers from that time frame entering from east and west of the Persian Gulf, conjectured to be the Pishon and Gihon. The conjecture was presented that the Garden of Eden referred to a low-lying fertile valley in what is now the Persian Gulf, which was flooded when the seas rose past the level of the lowest passes of the mountains near the present Strait of Hormuz.

"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden" Part 1


"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden" Part 2



"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden", Part 3



"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden", Part 4



"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden", Part 5



Adam was prohibited to enter the garden again due to disobedience to God and his sin. The disappearing of Garden of Eden, reported due to climate change and flood; and mankind will never able to go there again. It will never be found despite of our effort to find it since ancient time.

Just ponder now, the current climate change, will a great flood come again like in Noah's time? will nations and countries be sink again by the great flood........

What happen in Taiwan now(2009), where the flood caused by typhoon, the collapse of house and hotel, the landslide, remind us of the same situation that will be like if it happen(climate change and flood)....when climate change and the ice in North Pole is melting, the sea water keep rising, the land and nations sink under the sea.......

Nations fighting against each other , race going against another race to form a new nation and create new tension in the world; all these will be gone, when the climate change and the ice begin to melt.....a rise in the sea water and the land and nations will sink(be it ancient or new)....

or is it the time the mankind focus all our resources on common climate change agenda, instead of fighting on different platform on building new nations, create tension , war and killings....?

Is this the sign at the borderless era? H1V1, natural disaster of great magnitude, climate change, air pollution... ....

Our Utopia, our Shanglira, our kingdom; will be gone if mankind continue to be selfish and inward looking......like Garden of Eden.

We pray that it will not happen as God has promised Noah......

Note:Please pray for Taiwan and the victim of the typhoon and flood.

Abwoon D'Bashmaya - The Lords Prayer in Aramaic

After reading all the unpleasant happenings from Central Asia to WW2 in China. My heart was heavy...... it need time to settle down. This Aramaic prayer provide comfort. It provide hope, and pray that there will be peace in the world.

In the Aramaic Song:



In the movie:


In Assyrian Aramaic Language:
Lord's prayer in Assyrian
This is the Aramiac "Assyrian" Prayer of the Lord "Our Father" Hymned throughout the world in every Assyrian church during mass. The Assyrians have preserved the language of christ for two thousand years and the Assyrian Church of the east still conducts the mass in Aramiac



In Ancient Aramaic:
A phrase by phrase rendition of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic similar to its original form as prayed by Jesus.



May we found PEACE in our soul through the prayer in Aramaic language......

Abun d-b-shrnayya
Tethe malkuthakh
Nehweh sebyanakh
Aykanna d-ba-shrnayya
Aph al-ar-a

Early History of Christianity in China & Far East

The video was discovered by accident, I found that the song is really beautiful, and I love it. Later I realized that this video is about history of Christianity in China, which is a rare subject of interest in academic world. However, historical fact in the video may be doubtful.

It is the historical facts many people do not know, of how Assyrian Christian from Assyrian Church of the East(东方亚述教会),formally called Nestorians(聂里脱里派) by the west. They spread their good news to China, using silk route at that time. The followers of Saint Thomas...they even go to Tibet, Japan and India.

They called the religion Chin Chio(景教), literally mean "Luminous Religion". It was in Tang Dynasty; where there are religion freedom, trade freedom, where the West met East, the era of glory in China. There are cultural integration, religion studies.....The religion also spread to Japan from China.

But the powerful horsemen of Mongol attacked China, and destroyed the glorious era of China, overthrown the Tang Dynasty. They form the Yuan Dynasty. China began the new era of Mongolian rule.

The video reported that the church established in Tang Dynasty were destroyed by the Mongols.But in wikipedia, it was reported that "The Christian community later faced persecution from Emperor Wuzong(唐武宗) of Tang (reigned 840–846). He suppressed all foreign religions, including Buddhism and Christianity, which then declined sharply in China. A Syrian monk visiting China a few decades later described many churches in rubble". A zealous Taoist, Wuzong considered Buddhism a foreign religion that was harmful to Chinese society. He went after other foreign religions as well. His persecution of the growing Nestorian Christian churches sent Chinese Christianity into a decline from which it never recovered(source: wikipedia). Christianity flourished again in China during the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1271-1368), when Franciscan missionaries, commissioned by the Roman Pope, arrived in 1294. The Assyrian Church also substantially reappeared at this time with the Mongols. During this period the Chinese language employed the same name for both branches of the Christian faith. Organized Christianity failed to survive the end of the Yuan dynasty in China,it only re-enter China during Qing Dynasty after the Opium Wars.

“Nestorian” Christianity reached China by 635 AD during the early Tang Dynasty under Emperor Taizong(唐太宗, 2nd emperor of Tang Dynasty, personal name Li Shimin 李世民), and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an. (note: The rule by Emperor Taizong(唐太宗) was one of the greatest in the history of China). The Nestorian Stele, set up on 7 January 781 at the then-capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an), describes the introduction of Christianity into China from Persia in the reign of Taizong of Tang, and documents found at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang further elucidate the religion. About the same time Nestorian Christianity penetrated into Mongolia, eventually reaching as far as Korea. Some historians even suggest that they made it to the shores of Japan. In AD 797, a Japanese history, Shoku Nihongi was published. It states that in AD 736 an envoy returned to Japan from China. He brought with him a Persian physician by the name of Limitsi (or Rimitsui, 李密医), and Kohfu (皇甫), a “dignitary of the church of the Luminous Religion”. The “Luminous religion” is (Nestorian) Christianity - because Christ is “the Light of the World”. The Syrian Christians of Kerala, India may have been converted by Nestorian missionaries in the 7th century AD according to one of the two dominant theories about their origin (the other, more traditional theory is that they were converted in 52AD by St Thomas or his delegates)(source:wikipedia)

The church in India, however remained strong. I have the opportunity to attend service conducted by The Mar Thoma Church((Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church) from India in Kuantan previously. Mar Thomas is Aramaic words, means St Thomas. Malankara or Maliankara is the place St Thomas landed in Kerala, India. It was the headquarter of the church from 1st century. Syrian does not means it is from Syria, but it means the language used, Syraic( the middle Aramaic language). They are very traditional and ancient, which revealed that they have preserved their religion since ancient time. What is China loss, is Indian's gain.

A copy of the Gospel of Saint Matthew in old Chinese script, dating back to the ninth century, found inside the Koryuji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, near Nara, Japan. This temple is cited by at least one historian as having been built about 818 atop a Christian building erected in 603 that was destroyed by fire. Researcher M.L. Young says that one of the most sacred objects of the Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple, founded by Kobo Daishi in 806 after his contact with a Nestorian Christian monastery in Beijing, is "the Lord of the Universe's Discourse on Almsgiving," a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount and other Matthean passages. (source: http://www.nestorian.org/christianity_arrived_in_japan_.html)

The church in Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus is The Church of Nativity, it is amongst the most important holy places for Christian. It is within the Palestinian Territories. The Church conducted their service or mass in traditional and ancient way like the Indian Assyrian Church.

The song was a Assyrian church hymn, it may be in Aramaic language; the language of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. It sound like Arabic song. Beautiful.....

An interesting history if you are interested in Religion History in China.





Books related to Nestorian :
1. "Nestorians"(1841), by Asahel Grant, published by Haper
2. The Nestorians: or, The lost tribes(2002), Asahel Grant, H. L. Murre-Van Den Berg, published by Gorgias Press LLC. It contained evidence of Nestorian identity ; an account of their manners, customs, and ceremonies ; together with sketches of travels in ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia ; and illustrations of Scripture prophecy
3. Mesopotamia and Assyria: from the earliest ages to the present time; with illustrations of their natural history, by James Baillie Fraser,published by Oliver & Boyd.
4. The Unofficial Website of Nestorian Church , http://www.nestorian.org/christianity_arrived_in_japan_.html

Today is Easter

Today is the day that Christian celebrate the annual feast to remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ , 3 days after dead from crucifixion.

Matthew 28

He Is Risen

¹ Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. ² And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door,^a]">[a] and sat on it. ³ His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. ⁴ And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.
⁵ But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ⁷ And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”
⁸ So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.

1 Corinthians 5:7 (New International Version)

7Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.


1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (King James Version)

23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

(The drawing is by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder: Resurrection, 1778)

Good Friday

Today(10-4-2009) is Good Friday

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter day. It is a religious holiday observed by Christian primarily to remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and his death at Golgotha. Jesus was resurrected 3 days after his crucifixion.

The following are the “The 7 last words of Christ”, in the cross:-

Luke 23:34 (King James Version)

³⁴Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Jesus is actually reflecting his teaching of unqualified love and forgiveness, love their enemies and the people who persecute them, including the Roman soldiers who crucified him, and all others who are involved in the crucifixion.

In Mathew 5:44 it is read that : But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you

Luke 23:43 (King James Version)

⁴³And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Jesus provided the good news of forgiveness of sin to the two thieves. Their confession of guilt and sins have been forgiven, they are the new creation in the paradise.

John 19:26-27 (King James Version)

²⁶When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Jesus on the verge of giving up his life in earth, was now giving up his last attachment as a man on earth, The last attachment was his mother, the woman he love. He requested the disciple to take care of the mother. Without the mother , Jesus died in the most humble way, not even the mother is with him.

Matthew 27:46 (King James Version)

⁴⁶And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

In Psalm 22:1 : ¹My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? The gulf of separation between the God and son was the death in God, the desert of God from his son, to fulfill the promise.

John 19:28 (King James Version)

²⁸After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

Jesus said to Peter in John 18:11; the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?. In Psalm 69:21, the bible said they give me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Jesus was given sour wine to drink, soaked in a sponge on a hyssop stem.

John 19:30 (King James Version)

³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Jesus is saving that his job is completed in this earth, the debt of sin is written off by his blood in the cross.

Luke 23:46 (King James Version)

⁴⁶And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Jesus is actually saying Psalm 31:5 :- ⁵Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.