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==73:7. THE FATE OF EDEN==

==73:7. THE FATE OF EDEN==

73:7.1 After the first garden was vacated by [[Adam]], it was occupied variously by the [[Nodites]], Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the dwelling place of the northern [[Nodites]] who [[opposed]] [[co-operation]] with the Adamites. The [[peninsula]] had been overrun by these lower-grade [[Nodites]] for almost four thousand years after [[Adam]] left the Garden when, in [[connection]] with the [[violent]] [[activity]] of the [[surrounding]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanoes volcanoes] and the submergence of the [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ibcm/images/93001-S.jpg Sicilian land bridge] to Africa, the eastern floor of the [[Mediterranean]] Sea sank, [http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/animation_flooding_small.gif carrying down beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula]. Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern [[Mediterranean]] was greatly elevated. And this was the end of the most [[beautiful]] [[natural]] [[creation]] that [[Urantia]] has ever harbored. The sinking was not sudden, several hundred years being required completely to submerge the entire [[peninsula]].

73:7.1 After the first garden was vacated by [[Adam]], it was occupied variously by the [[Nodites]], Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the dwelling place of the northern [[Nodites]] who [[opposed]] [[co-operation]] with the Adamites. The [[peninsula]] had been overrun by these lower-grade [[Nodites]] for almost four thousand years after [[Adam]] left the Garden when, in [[connection]] with the [[violent]] [[activity]] of the [[surrounding]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanoes volcanoes] and the submergence of the [http://www.ciesm.org/marine/morphomap.htm Sicilian land bridge] to Africa, the eastern floor of the [[Mediterranean]] Sea sank, [http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/animation_flooding_small.gif carrying down beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula]. Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern [[Mediterranean]] was greatly elevated. And this was the end of the most [[beautiful]] [[natural]] [[creation]] that [[Urantia]] has ever harbored. The sinking was not sudden, several hundred years being required completely to submerge the entire [[peninsula]].

73:7.2 We cannot regard this disappearance of the Garden as being in any way a result of the miscarriage of the [[divine]] [[plans]] or as a result of the mistakes of [[Adam and Eve]]. We do not regard the submergence of [[Eden]] as anything but a [[natural]] occurrence, but it does seem to us that the sinking of the Garden was timed to occur at just about the date of the accumulation of the reserves of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 violet race] for undertaking the [[work]] of rehabilitating the world peoples.

73:7.2 We cannot regard this disappearance of the Garden as being in any way a result of the miscarriage of the [[divine]] [[plans]] or as a result of the mistakes of [[Adam and Eve]]. We do not regard the submergence of [[Eden]] as anything but a [[natural]] occurrence, but it does seem to us that the sinking of the Garden was timed to occur at just about the date of the accumulation of the reserves of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 violet race] for undertaking the [[work]] of rehabilitating the world peoples.