Originally posted by NorrinRadd
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Literally, Genesis 5-6 provide 1,656 years from the creation to the Flood. This is problematic for obvious reasons, so Fundamentalism has strategies for maintaining the inerrancy of the text, while denying that the interval of time was only as long as as 1,656 years. A usual strategy is to postulate as many unnamed pre-Flood generations as are needed to protect both the inerrancy of Genesis 5-6, and the credibility, in modern circumstances, of the text. Literality is sacrificed to inerrancy.
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