The Earth is Flat

Apologies for the hypocrisy this debate requires of me. I shall be arguing from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim position.From the Book of Job in the Ketuvim, we learn that the Lord God created the horizon to provide a boundary between the light and the darkness:Job 26 [1]10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.One can see from this that the shape of the Earth that God created is three dimensional in such a way that some areas may be bathed in light whilst other areas may be simultaneously in darkness. The first book of the Tanakh (Genesis) tells us that God created light and darkness and intended them to be separate; we also know, from this holy scripture, that the Lord God named the light "day" and the darkness "night". Any theory that comports with these scriptures must explain how a horizon separates day from night; it is puzzling, of course, how God managed the miracle of bending the surface of water, which seems to always find a level, from common experience. Truly, it is wonderful to behold His creation and to read of His revealed wisdom in writings recording His revelation from years ago:Genesis 1 [2]3 And God said "Let there be light" and there was light.4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.5 God called the light "day" and the darkness He called "night".So, we know that the God created the Earth with a shape such that a horizon separated light from darkness, day from night. Thus far in my case, it could be a cube or a doughnut or even an icosohedron. In fact, it could be almost any other shape but flat. Fortunately for my case, God tells us more about the shape of his miraculous creation in the Book of His prophet Isaiah:Isaiah 40 [3]22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the Earth and its people are like grasshoppers.This tells us that from His place above the Earth, from a God's-eye-view, the Earth is like a circle. And there is only really one three dimensional shape that has the properties necessary to satisfy all of the scriptures: a sphere.Now, I feel that I have shown clearly why the Earth must be spherical, according to the Holy Bible. However, I did say that I would argue for an oblate spheroid - now, I admit that this bit isn't 100% and requires a little bit of interpretation:Joshua 10 [4]12 On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel,Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel:"Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,till the nation avenged itself on its enemies,as it is written in the Book of Jashar.The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.It must be noted that the Earth spins rather than the sun orbitting the Earth once a day, but that Joshua was not, being a fallible human, to know this. Obviously when Joshua asked God to make the sun stand still, God in His infinite wisdom, understood that Joshua wanted Him to make the sun seem to stop moving by stopping the Earth from spinning and this is exactly what He did. Which leaves us with the brute fact of the rotation of the Earth causing, over time, the sphere to turn into an oblate spheroid.I have to say, though, that this is really just a theory - it may simply be true that the Earth is still a still sphere and that God literally made the sun stop it's daily journey around the Earth (how amazing is it that God keeps the sun orbitting the Earth!?)... even then, I've heard of some modern fellow called Newton (himself a good God-fearing Christian) who had a theory about gravity - it may just be that the gravitational pull of the Sun, which orbits the Earth in this way, causes the Earth to be stretched into an oblate spheroid.Personally I think that the Earth is an oblate spheroid but I suppose that it would be possible for it to be spherical. The scripture is clear, at least on this point: the Earth is not flat.[1] https://www.biblegateway.com...[2] https://www.biblegateway.com...[3] https://www.biblegateway.com...[4] https://www.biblegateway.com...