Because people these days tend to put all of their faith in modern science than the plain words of Scripture. I believe the earth is a flat plane enclosed in a globular dome because that's what Scripture describes. And, to me, that is the strongest argument for it.

And this is all I'm saying on the matter, as I've grown tired of the Flat Earth vs Globe Earth arguments as of late.

Because the Bible contains allegory, poetry, prose, historical genres based on at least three different ancient languages that underwent morphological evolution during the writing of the books of the Bible, and literary particularities that make a literal reading of an always imperfect translation by a layperson ambiguous at best.

Your average Catholic does not simply pick up the Bible and extrapolate doctrines & conclusions. This is absolutely inimical to being a Catholic.

Infallibly condemned in Unigenitus by Pope Clement XI:

80. The reading of Sacred Scripture is for all.

81. The sacred obscurity of the Word of God is no reason for the laity to dispense themselves from reading it.

Declared and condemned as false, captious, evil-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious to the Church and her practice, insulting not only to the Church but also the secular powers seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected of heresy, and smacking of heresy itself, and, besides, favoring heretics and heresies, and also schisms, erroneous, close to heresy, many times condemned, and finally heretical, clearly renewing many heresies respectively and most especially those which are contained in the infamous propositions of Jansen, and indeed accepted in that sense in which these have been condemned.

op be very cautious about enoch etc, a lot of protestants push this hard but imo its the worst way to argue fe as you are adopting a house of cards a protestant approach to scripture to base something you can support with a catholic bible on its own.

Posting in all lowercase -- the most basic and kindergarten way to operate a sock puppet account. Everyone has a way of speaking, words used, phrases used (and not used), and hundreds of other things that could be measured, which make your speaking or writing every bit as unique as your fingerprint.

It's near-impossible, or actually impossible, to write posts like someone else. It's related to the fact that 99% of people can't step outside themselves. In each of our minds, there's only one (best) way to say something. It's not the kind of thing people argue about, but it's still true. 

Nice 1st post with a new account -- named after the issue you're discussing.

Couldn't be more obvious that it's a sock puppet account. I wish there were no such thing as VPNs.

Besides, here is how St John closes his Gospel:

But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.

Couldn't be more obvious that it's a sock puppet account. I wish there were no such thing as VPNs.

Sorry my finger slipped and I accidentally downvoted this post.  Should have upvoted.

I know of another forum that has a rule "VPNs, IP maskers, proxies, etc are not permitted" unless cleared with the forum owner first. Any account using these without permission is automatically banned.  People with a good reason to use them have to contact the admin to explain.  I am not sure how much extra work it would make, but it might be worth it.  These things foster a lot of problematic behaviour.