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There is no literal interpretation of Scripture regarding the shape of the earth.
So there's nothing to reject in that regard.
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Maybe you're confusing the Bible with the Koran; the Koran is plain as day saying the earth is "flat," literally.
But the Koran is not a legitimate book of divine revelation. It's full of heresies and falsehoods, such as this one.
Who cares what the Koran says? I don't source it or defend it in any way.
What do you mean, "There is no literal interpretation of Scripture regarding the shape of the earth." Literal interpretation is just the literal understanding of the words (of Scripture). The words speak for themselves. God's Word cannot be incorrect or his Words be diametrically opposed to themselves. The Church teaches that the literal comes first, and cannot be discarded unless it is impossible to understand literally. God paints throughout Scripture a picture of earth that is incompatible with a sphere. Scripture speaks of pillars, a dome, that earth has a face. Scripture also says earth has ends, and can be seen entirely from certain high places, that God in Heaven is
above us, that God fixed together the firmament with the earth "like a square block of stone" and is an immovable foundation. An immovable foundation cannot possibly be a ball hanging in space.
Genesis 1: 6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.7 And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.8 And
God called the firmament Heaven.
There are dozens of passages that taken together, cannot, with serious Godly consideration, be reconciled with a globe. Nor has anyone ever attempted to defend that Scripture describes a globe. Yet, Fathers and Doctors of the Church who do compare the passages of Scripture on the form of the earth, all come up with the same thing, earth is flat with a dome above that separates heaven and earth. This is expounded on by other Saints who explain that the earth is a template of the Church and tabernacle, and amazingly, reflected in the liturgy.
Other notable Fathers of the Church who taught flat geocentric earth are Theophilus of Antioch in the second century and Clement of Alexandria in the third, based on the seventh verse of the first chapter of Genesis, both taught that spread over the earth was a solid vault, "a firmament," and 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." From Moses, Enoch, Clement and Theophilus and many others, Cosmas Indiocopleustes also reiterates that earth 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.Mocking me for bringing this information to Catholics is unbecoming. I don't do this to get scorned or praised, but to pass on information I discovered and believe to be of great value in this day and age of lying modern science promoted by NASA and pagan scientists. If you don't want to believe it because you like the way your world is, that's your business. But claiming I'm promoting Islam or paganism is ridiculous when most of my sources are Catholic and 100% of the globe sources are pagan.
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