But when the bible says, over and over and over something to the effect of "The earth does not move" or "the earth can't move"
I offer an alternate interpretation to be that no major calamity will happen between the inception of man extending to the return of Jesus and possibly beyond. No asteroids, no giant solar flares, no Noah’s ark scale super floods, etc. will happen in the meantime.
I disagree. If you interpret the flood as literal and not poetic or a metaphor then millions of people died. If you use conservative population estimates like the one shown below then 10s of millions of people were brutally murdered by God. Including infant children. Unless you worship a God who should be charged with 10,000 + counts of murdering infants and children you should really consider these verses as a parable or poetic not as fact.
At least 75 million people died in ww2. In terms of body count that rivals the people who would have died in the very specific infant murdering interpretation of the biblical great flood event.
Now after reading a half dozen times that the earth does not move in the bible and reading this verse about how the sun stopped moving then it becomes more lopsided.
In my perspective, you can’t console the bible for reliable information about physical reality. My assumption is that information was not put in the bible explicitly for that purpose. Rather, that information has a spiritual context or meaning. Possible interpretation above.
I agree. Yet for some of the more outlandish verse or verses outright defying everything that you have learned about physical reality and the mathematical and physical LAWS of how our universe operates 100% of the time you appear to be believing that they really happened vs they are a parable. If you want to learn the history of society read a history book not the bible. If you want to learn the ancient history of the earth study geology or paleontology not the bible. If you want to learn the history of the universe study astrophysics or astronomy not the bible. If you want to learn how to try to be a good person and go to heaven then read the bible and temper it with modern logic and reason.
If there is a discrepency with your views meaning your views conflict, then your views must change or the discrepency must have another explanation in order to allow the acception.
Unfortunately, in this decorum, anyone can claim that something that does not support their specific flat earth model is incorrect, wrong, or a lie.
When you say that the bible is antiquated and requires modern logic to interpret, I don't see the argument against what I've said in this post as not being modern logic, as after all, it is modern thinking that the earth is round.
This is why i'm not a big fan of the biblical FE models and I think they are a testament of how blind faith, without being tempered by modern logic, rational though, and reason, is harmful.