Agree. And there is plenty of circuмstantial evidence that the earth is flat, i.e.
1. when satan tempted Christ in the desert, he took Him up to a high mountain where all the kingdoms of the earth could be seen. Not possible on a globe earth.
2. Christ ascended into heaven, in the direction of "up". Not possible on a globe earth.
3. How about when St Luke says the whole world was covered in darkness when Christ was on the cross. How is this possible on a globe earth? How can the sun be darkened on the whole earth, at the same time, on a globe earth? It can't.
44And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 46And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23)
Yeah, a firmament is a basic concept of a Catholic earth model. Without a firmament, the model is anti-Scripture and wrong.
1. When Satan tempted Christ in the desert, he took Him up to a high mountain where all the kingdoms of the earth could be seen. Not possible on a globe earth.
'Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, 9 And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me. 10 Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.' (Matt Ch 4 8-10.)
How in God's name can this passage be 'circuмstantial evidence' for a flat-Earth? Even if it did happen on a flat Earth, as each of us witness every day, one cannot see all the Earth even from a mountain top. How many climbers who reached the top of Mt everest said they saw st America or Australia? How Satan 'showed' Christ all the kingdoms of the world we do not know. He could have pointed to them in every direction that can apply to a flat or global Earth, or he could have created some sort of image, or both he and Christ could have seen in their own way all the kingdoms of the world.
2. Christ ascended into heaven, in the direction of "up". Not possible on a globe earth.
I have already written: A God created global Earth would need a supernatural element to ensure all on such a globe had the Earth under their feet and the sky above their heads. The above 'impossibility' suggests that not even God could create a globe on which what is called gravity by man, could allow man to live anywhere on Earth
and have the ground under their feet and the sky above their head. It suggests people who live in Australia would be upside down on a global Earth. If we could get to the moon, we would have to land on top of it or end up sideways or upside down on the bottom of it.
For an explanation as to how man can live on a global Earth, no matter where on it, the top, sides or bottom, it would need a little supernaturalism. Indeed it kind of proves that there is a supernatural element to God's first creation, an Earth for mankind. A flat-Earth would not need supernatural evidence. Christian theology teaches that God’s love sustains the inanimate universe that necessarily ensures the existence of mankind on Earth, be it a globe or not. Thus, we are totally dependent on Him for everything. We call this divine concursus; the act by which God’s energy flows into all the operations of creatures, like gravity to keep hell below and heaven above the Earth. The motions of the universe are presided over by God’s mediate concursus, signifying the remote divine activity that gives and preserves created power of action.
3. How about when St Luke says the whole world was covered in darkness when Christ was on the cross. How is this possible on a globe earth? How can the sun be darkened on the whole earth, at the same time, on a globe earth? It can't.
On a global Earth, the sun causes day on one half of it and night (darkness) exists on the other half. If God turned off the light of the sun, which the Scriptures tell us He did, then the whole global Earth would find itself in darkness.
So, sorry Pax, I don't think the above will convert many from global to flat Earthism.