A Twisting of Genesis

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IF YOU ARE AT ALL SUSCEPTIBLE TO HERESY OR FEEL WEAK IN YOUR FAITH DO NOT READ FURTHER

I heard a twisting of Scripture by a Jewish man, and boy did it sound like some occult thing. Essentially, it is about Adam and Eve. What this interpretation says is that God said to not eat of the fruit of the tree and then also said when you eat of the fruit of the tree you will die, and not “if”, so it’s actually telling them what’s going to happen as though it wasn’t actually a command against eating it. Further it says that they were in a holy world, and that Eve chose to die to go to the lowest of worlds, a place filled with death. In essence, it makes the snake the good guy, and the sin of Adam not actually a sin and good. To choose to go to the lowest of world’s to make it better, or so.

This obviously doesn’t jive with several things, like the snake being crushed, and is not at all the way the text seems to present the story. What do you say of this?
 
Yes, but he’s Jewish so he’d deny or is ignorant of Christ and Revelation.
 
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Yes, one of the things I was wondering was he said, to paraphrase, that we say God created the world, and the thing people ask is why is it not holy, as if this explained why when it doesn’t answer anything (unlike Christian understanding).
 
Do you know if he had some proof he could refer you to, or is this something he just said?
 
Tried to say it didn’t make sense otherwise.
Referred to them falling in just an hour (I suppose that is Jewish tradition?), in a holy world, where they had no original sin (I’m guesstimating because he was using Hebrew words, which I don’t know), yet they fell in an hour despite having one commandment, now you with original sin have original sin and 613 Commandments, good luck with that.
That the deal was eating the fruit was to bring death, but much more happened after eating the fruit (ie pain in childbirth, toil, etc).

He tried to frame it in a way that it was what made sense.
 
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According to the Jewish TANAKH Study Bible, God tells Adam, before Eve is created, that if Adam eats from the Tree of Knowledge that he will “surely die.” Then after the serpent tells Eve that if she tells the serpent that God told her if not to touch or eat the fruit of the Tree “lest” she die.

Hope I’ve got this right.
 
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