“You know, it is interesting that the early Church Fathers did not fear questioning the OT. For instance, +Augustine wonders what were the Hebrews drinking if all the waters of Egypt turned into blood [Letter 124], or why could Pharaoh’s magicians make a serpents but not gnats [The Trinity 3.7.12]!”
Bravo, Kosta mou! We are indeed the rational flock, are we not?! Not only did the Fathers question aspects of the OT, it didn’t concern them in the least that they were doing so!
The OT read in a void, that is to say, without the clarifying lens of Christ through The Church, does not as a general proposition lead to theosis; indeed its efficacy in that regard is limited at best as +Athanasius demonstrates in the opening chapters of On the Incarnation.
That was my point, Kolo. The Fathers didn't have this idolatrous relationship with the scriptures we see ushered by the sola scriptura superstition of the Reformation.