Don't the Fathers warn against taking the Bible too literally? I was reading Patristic Theology by Romanides and he mentions this, as does Lossky in Mystical Theology of the eastern Church(if memory serves, of course). In the end does it matter? Would Noah living 950 years or 95 years change the fact that God became flesh in the incarnation, and was crucufied to set us free from bondage and death? I'm no expert but debates such as these tend to distract us from the Way causing us to stumble and to fall away from our salvation. Also they seem to me to lead to disputes that tear the Chuch apart which is what demonic literally means.
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