It's a good idea to posts the passages from Sacred Scripture, since the globe-earthers who post on these threads don't want to take Scripture into account, regarding the shape of the earth. They prefer to obtain their information from secular sources, like NASA.
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The Church and the Bible do not require us to disbelieve what we can see with our own eyes.
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The language used in the Bible is not precise when it comes to physical descriptions of our world, and can be understood in various ways.
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Ambiguity is the enemy of the faith as we can see when Vatican II used it to destroy tradition.
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All you have to do is observe the sun and moon every day and you can easily see their movement and appearance do not conform to a "flat-earth" model.
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When what you read in the Bible conflicts with what you see in the sky, you must be reading the Bible incorrectly.
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That is exactly what flat-earthers are doing. They misunderstand Scripture when they incorrectly interpret flat-earthism there.
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You guys keeping up this charade of "holier-than-thou" mythology only makes you look ridiculous to anyone who is thinking about converting.
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Why would they want to be part of a bunch of
nut cases and cretins?.
Ever since Galileo the enemies of the Church have attempted to accuse the Bible and the Church of being wrong, and they've got a lot of followers.
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Their principle contention was heiocentrism, but today, scientists don't adhere to that anymore.
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Even so, the schools still teach it in the classroom.
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This is a big problem they've made for themselves, and you can see it come out when they try to explain the solar eclipse.
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When asked why the moon's shadow moves from west to east, they turn themselves into knots, trying to avoid the problem they've made.
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All they have to say is the sun moves across the sky faster than the moon moves across the sky.
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Simple. That's why the moon's shadow moves from west to east, because the sun is passing up the moon.
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But then they'd have to answer questions about the sun moving in the sky when they said the sun doesn't move.
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If they were honest, all they'd have to say is to think of the earth not moving but the sun moving instead, so you can understand the eclipse.
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But they don't say that, because they still teach heliocentrism.
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They teach heliocentrism but they don't believe heliocentrism.
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Therein lies the rub, as Shakespeare was wont to say.
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