Jesus is leading me to continue to promote the flat earth. Just imagine someone from cathinfo.com going to the judgment claiming they didn't know the flat earth is described in Genesis. We told them so. The people who refuse to believe the descriptions of the flat earth in Genesis have no good excuse as to why they keep endorsing the Freemasonic agenda. I believe the vast majority of Catholics' who refuse to believe the Genesis descriptions of the Flat Earth also refuse to believe all Infallibly Define Dogma of the Council of Trent. I believe their fruit is rotten to the core.
Now it is all very well sparring about a flat-Earth or a global-Earth but when this debate enters the realm of Church teaching it is a very serious matter. This is what you flat-Earthers are now doing, insisting a flat-earth is Church teaching, and it seems some are actually falling for this unorthodoxy. The Church teaches no such thing. You may believe it yes, but you cannot insist anyone else believes it on canonical grounds.
Here are the rules, so let us see what Pope Leo XIII's Providentissimus Deus said about a FLAT EARTH in Scripture:
’18: To understand how just is the rule here formulated [BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION] we must remember, first, that the sacred writers, or to speak more accurately, the Holy Ghost “Who spoke by them, did not intend to teach men these things (that is to say, the essential nature of the things of the visible universe), things in no way profitable unto salvation.” (St Augustine) Hence they did not seek to penetrate the secrets of nature, but rather described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were commonly used at the time, and which in many instances are in daily use at this day, even by the most eminent men of science. Ordinary speech primarily and properly describes what comes under the senses; and somewhat in the same way the sacred writers - as the Angelic Doctor also reminds us – “went by what sensibly appeared,” [LIKE A FLAT EARTH] or put down what God, speaking to men, signified, in the way men could understand and were accustomed to. The unshrinking defense of the Holy Scripture, however, does not require that we should equally uphold all the opinions which each of the Fathers [as distinct from ALL OF THE FATHERS] or the more recent interpreters have put forth in explaining it; for it may be that, in commenting on passages where physical matters occur, they have sometimes expressed the ideas of their own times, and thus made statements which in these days have been abandoned as incorrect. Hence, in their interpretations, we must carefully note what they lay down as belonging to faith, or as intimately connected with faith, what they are unanimous in. For “in those things which do not come under the obligation of faith, the Saints were at liberty to hold divergent opinions, just as we ourselves are,” according to the saying of St. Thomas Aquinas. And in another place he says most admirably: “When philosophers are agreed upon a point, and it is not contrary to our faith, it is safer, in my opinion, neither to lay down such a point as a dogma of faith, even though it is perhaps so presented by the philosophers, nor to reject it as against faith, lest we thus give to the wise of this world an occasion of despising our faith.” The Catholic interpreter, although he should show that those facts of natural science which investigators affirm to be now quite certain are not contrary to the Scripture rightly explained, must nevertheless always bear in mind, that much which has been held and proved as certain has afterwards been called in question and rejected.’
So dear Truth is Eternal, to suggest a flat-earth interpretation of the Bible is Catholic teaching according to Trent is what a Protestant might say. Now you can believe what you like but please do not present this nonsense, proven so by the science of geodesy, [ Earth measurement on a large scale] as infallible Catholic teaching.
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