Eden Gardens are in Heaven !

I also wish to thank him for the permission to stray into the NT to bring in what I believe are relevant and important words from Jesus, I copy and paste them below, without comment as I believe they are self explanatory: John 3:13 Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man. I note with interest his understanding of Genesis Chapter one, whihc differs from my own, and could explain his misapprehension about where Adam was situated. I shall copy and paste a different translation of Genesis 1 here and examine it verse by verse. It does not differ greatly from that of Young's Literal Translation, excepting in it's use of more modern language, and is the New World Translation. Genesis 1:1-31 1 In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. A simple, bland statement of the creation of heaven and earth, with not indication whatever of time scale. However here the context shifts and the rest is written as if from the viewpoint of someone on the earth reporting on what happens: 3 And God proceeded to say: "Let light come to be. " Then there came to be light. 4 After that God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between the light and the darkness. 5 And God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day. My opponent here appears to mistake the appearance of light for the creation of a new luminary, and yet we know from verse one that cannot be the case. It appears to be simply the point at whihc light penetrates to ground level with no visible source: 6 And God went on to say: "Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters. " 7 Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. 8 And God began to call the expanse Heaven. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a second day. Here we could be forgiven for thinking this describes the creation of literal heaven, and yet that has already been created. So what does it mean? Do we not describe someone looking up into the sky as "gazing to heaven" or similar words? 14 And God went on to say: "Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. 15 And they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth. " And it came to be so. 16 And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. 17 Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth, 18 and to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between the light and the darkness. Then God saw that [it was] good. 19 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day. Do verses 14 to 19 indicate another act of creation, or do they simply indicate that these luminaries have become visible o our "earth bound observer"? I personally believe the latter as it fits better: No mention of Adam being transferred to or from anywhere. Then we go to Chapter 2, which is written in non-chronological order as if from Adam's viewpoint. 2 Thus the heavens and the earth and all their army came to their completion. 2 And by the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made. 3 And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making. 4 This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven. 5 Now there was as yet no bush of the field found in the earth and no vegetation of the field was as yet sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain upon the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist would go up from the earth and it watered the entire surface of the ground. 7 And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life. and the man came to be a living soul. 8 Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Apparently my opponent is under the misapprehension that this Garden, planted in Eden, was planted in heaven, whihc from what we have read so far in Genesis raises the obvious ,question, whihc heaven? The physical heaven created by God to house the sun and all other stars, as well as the planets, or the spiritual heavens where God himself dwells along with his son and the Angels? Scriptures elsewhere in the "OT" describes the spirit realm as being completely incompatible with the physical one, so that rules out the heaven in which God dwells, and leaves us with the physical one. Is my opponent therefore suggesting that the Garden of Eden was planted on another planet and Adam and Even brought there form earth and then returned to it when they sinned? Or is it not much more reasonable to believe that Eden was planted on a part of the earth, and Adam being created in an area of the same planet outside the Garden and then placed in what was to become a template for Adam's commission of filling the earth and subduing it? What happened when Adam was ejected from the Garden with his wife? Would it have been possible for him to return to it since it was on earth? Well, what does scripture tell us, starting at verse 23 of Genesis 2? 23 With that Jehovah God put him out of the garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24 And so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life. So, to prevent Adam rebelling further and returning to the Garden, god had to place a guard over it until it died. Does that not suggest that Eden was at least accessible from the earth, and much more likely actually occupying a part of it? The fact that we no longer have a Garden of Eden here on earth means nothing. How long would your garden remain cultivated if you were simply to leave it to it's own devices, doing no work in it? Would it not soon revert to the wild state? As for the fact of Adam being created "from the dust of the ground", is there anything to suggest that the ground from which he was created is situated anywhere other than outside the earth, but still on the earth? No there is not. If you wanted livestock for your garden would you need to have them produced on some other planet or some other realm? or would they simply be imported into your garden from another part of the same planet? I leave you with those thoughts and await my opponents response with some anticipation.