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Jumping topic again?
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Why am I surprised?
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The Scripture referred to says nothing about "a dome" but it tells you what "a firmament" means.
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Will you learn or will you not learn? That's up to you, as usual. Or you can jump topic, again, as usual, like a Protestant.
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Scripture doesn't use the word dome, but the use of the word is common, as is "roof" and the descriptions of the firmament are consistent as writings of Church Fathers show here:
Origen called the firmament “without doubt firm and solid” (First Homily on Genesis, FC 71). Ambrose, commenting on Genesis 1:6, said, “the specific solidity of this exterior firmament is meant” (Hexameron, FC 42.60). And Saint Augustine said the word firmament was used “to indicate not that it is motionless but that it is solid and that it constitutes an impassible boundary between the waters above and the waters below” (The Literal Meaning of Genesis, ACW 41.1.61). Lactantius referred to the ideas of those studying astronomy as "bad and senseless," and opposed the doctrine of the earth's sphericity both from Scripture and reason. St. John Chrysostom also exerted his influence against this scientific belief; and Ephrem Syrus, the greatest man of the old Syrian Church, widely known as the "lute of the Holy Ghost," opposed it no less earnestly.
But the strictly Biblical men of science, such eminent fathers and bishops as Theophilus of Antioch in the second century, Clement of Alexandria in the third, and others in centuries following, were not content with merely opposing what they stigmatized as an old heathen theory; they drew from their Bibles a new Christian theory, to which one church authority added one idea and another another, until it was fully developed. Taking the survival of various early traditions, given in the seventh verse of the first chapter of Genesis, they dwelt on the scriptural declaration that the earth was, at creation, arched over with a solid vault, "a firmament," and to this they added the passage from Isaiah in which it is declared that the heavens are stretched out "like a curtain," and again "like a tent to dwell in." The universe, then, is like a house: the earth is its ground floor, the firmament its ceiling, under which the Almighty hangs out the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. This ceiling is also the floor of the apartment above, and in this is a cistern, shaped, as one of the authorities says, "like a bathing-tank," and containing "the waters which are above the firmament."
These waters are let down upon the earth by the Almighty and his angels through the "windows of heaven." As to the movement of the sun, there was a citation of various passages in Genesis, mixed with metaphysics in various proportions, and this was thought to give ample proofs from the Bible that the earth could not be a sphere.[1]For Eusebius, see the Prcep. Ev., xv, 61. For Basil, see the Hexameron, Horn, ix, cited in Peschel, Erdkunde, p. 96, note. For Lactantius, see his Inst. Div., lib. iii, cap. 3; also, citations in Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sciences, London, 185*7, vol. i, p. 194, and in St. Martin, Histoire de la Geographie, pp. 216, 217. For the views of St. John Chrysostom Eph. Syrus, and other great churchmen, see Kretschmer as above, chap. i. The scholars of the Ethiopian Church as well as the Syrian (Thomist) Churches of southern India all highly respect 'The Christian Topography' of Cosmas Indicoplustes and consider the book an accurate historical docuмent which is vital to the history of the Church in those countries at the time when Cosmas wrote at the beginning of the Middle Ages A massive and exhaustively informative book on Saint Thomas the Apostle and the exhaustive history and heritage (and archaeology, relics, ancient churches, et cetera) of all the Thomistic churches in southern India of all denominations which is published by the Roman Catholic church there is entitled the 'Thomapedia.' The Thomapedia does not fail to make prominent mention of Cosmas Indicopleustes for the vital historical information he provides of Christians in India during the early Middle Ages. Western scholars familiar with Cosmas Indicopleustes praise him for the accurate and invaluable historical information contained in the 'Christian Topography.' He is widely reckoned as the chief source of information on travel in the Indian Ocean and specifically Ethiopia and southern India at the beginning of the Middle Ages.Virtually any Ethiopian book covering the country's Christian history with significant information on the early medieval period also mentions Cosmas Indicopleustes as the most authoritative non-Ethiopian writer to describe Ethiopia at that time. "...Cosmas Indicopleustes, travelled in this region and wrote his 'Christian Topography,' expressing in an entire book the vision of the entire Cosmos as expressed in the Book of Genesis, and as a counterblast to the pagan Greek view of the universe as spherical; he also presented Moses prefiguring Christ. Thus Moses experiences a strong resurgence in this century not only as Lawgiver, the model of Justinian, but also and more relevantly as a Cosmographer. What is even more relevant to the theme of this paper is that his (Moses's) conception of the universe as interpreted by Cosmas was also expressed in maps, some drawn by Cosmas himself and some by others whom Cosmas employed. Cosmas Indicopleustes is that ancient Christian cartographer who drew up the oldest known Christian maps. These and their successors depict Jerusalem as the Navel of the Earth, the literal centre of the Earth. The city of Jerusalem is located at the geographical centre of the Earth. The city lies at the crossroads of Sem (Asia), Ham (Africa), and Japheth (Europe). Biblical, Christian, and Hebrew tradition unanimously state that Jerusalem is the Navel of the Earth and place the city at the geographical centre of the Cosmos. Strictly speaking, the geographical centre of the Earth is marked by an Omophoron on the floor of the Katholikon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The oldest acknowledged extant map of Jerusalem is a Byzantine mosaic Map of the Holy Land on the floor of the Katholikon of the sixth century Byzantine Church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. This is the famous Madaba map of Jerusalem unearthed in the Year of the Lord 1884, but not made famous until the librarian of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem visited Madaba to assess the map in 1897 and recognized the significance of this OLDEST MAP OF JERUSALEM IN THE WORLD. The centre of the Map depicts the city of Jerusalem with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the middle of the city. Consistent with the Flat Earth cosmography of the Church Fathers and Cosmas Indicopleustes, the eastern part of the map depicts the Four Rivers of Paradise which flow westward from the Garden of Eden into this world. One can discern the rivers' names like Pyson which are labelled in the Mosaic. The representation of the Four Rivers of Paradise in the Madaba Map is no different from their representation in the flat Earth world map of Cosmas Indicopleustes. "Having learned, moreover, from Moses that the earth has been extended in length more than in breadth, we again admit this, knowing that the scriptures, which are truly divine, ought to be believed. But further, when God had produced the waters and angels and other things simultaneously with the earth and the highest heaven itself, he on the second day exposed to their vision this second heaven visible to our eyes, which, as if putting to use the creations of his own hands, he formed from the waters as his material. In appearance it is like the highest heaven, but not in figure, and it lies midway between that heaven and the earth; and God [130] having then stretched it out extended it throughout the whole space in the direction of its breadth, like an intermediate roof, and bound together the firmament with the highest heaven, separating and disparting the remainder of the waters, leaving some above the firmament, and others on the earth below the firmament, as the divine Moses explains to us, and so makes the one area or house two houses----an upper and a lower story." From 'Christian Topography'
Lets see... Catholic teaching on the hard firmament/dome/roof and flat earth by Moses, Origen, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria, Theophilus of Antioch, Ephrem Syrus, Lactantius, Cosmas and St. Chrysostom in these paragraphs alone. This is a fraction of teachings on the literal interpretation of Genesis for the firmament which separates the upper waters from water on earth, and the flat earth against spherical earth. What traditional/ancient Father, saint or Catholic teaching do you have to prove earth is a sphere, Neil?
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