The word “paradise” appears three times in the KJV, all in the New Testament. Jesus promises it to the dying thief, Paul tells of a man “caught up into paradise”, and Christ offers the tree of life that grows there (Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:4; Revelation 2:7). It began as a Persian word for a walled garden. That first meaning is worth holding on to. A paradise was a garden with a wall around it, and the Bible’s own first…

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