If the Bible is so accurate in scientific fields, why did the
Catholic Church say that Galileo’s teaching that the earth moved
around the sun was unscriptural?

If the Bible is so accurate in scientific fields, why did the
Catholic Church say that Galileo’s teaching that the earth moved
around the sun was unscriptural? Because of the way the authorities
interpreted certain Bible verses.6 Were they correct? Let us read two
of the passages they quoted and see.
One passage says: “The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place
it speeds and there it rises.” (Ecclesiastes 1:5, The Jerusalem
Bible) According to the Church’s argument, expressions such as “the
sun rises” and “the sun sets” mean that the sun, not the earth, is
moving. But even today we say that the sun rises and sets, and most
of us know that it is the earth that moves, not the sun. When we use
expressions like these, we are merely describing the apparent motion
of the sun as it appears to a human observer. The Bible writer was
doing exactly the same.
The other passage says: “You fixed the earth on its foundations,
unshakeable for ever and ever.” (Psalm 104:5, The Jerusalem Bible)
This was interpreted to mean that after its creation the earth could
never move. In fact, though, the verse stresses the permanence of the
earth, not its immobility. The earth will never be ‘shaken’ out of
existence, or destroyed, as other Bible verses confirm. (Psalm 37:29;
Ecclesiastes 1:4)