I understand I'm no expert in anything I talk about on this forum, I'm just good at math and engineering and find it interesting people's views differ so much from my own. I think there's a chance I'm wrong, but I also think the likelihood the earth is flat is very low. What do I know though is that I will always be an ignorant child in the eyes of the omnipotent God.
Just like the likelihood that all of the fundamental laws of our universe That God took 7 days to develop were stopped for a day then restarted with no evidence the event really happened is very low. It all likelihood that is a more likely a parable or poetic story where the moral of the story is God is super powerful, Follow the teachings of God, God is a good person to have in your corner etc.
Just like in the story of the tortoise and the hair there was not a real talking rabbit and a real talking turtle who had a real footrace. It's a parable where the moral of the story is don't quit while your ahead, don't be too cocky, slow and steady wins the race, it's not over till it's over etc.
Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn:
Just like I don't believe there are unicorns. This is some poetic, metaphor, or imagery etc.
My point earlier was, God could say "Earth moon and sun, halt, but with no adverse affects." And just like we command dogs, space-time and matter will bend to Gods will. It doesn't matter that physics doesn't follow up intuitively to the actions of halting the sun, moon or earth because God owns physics. Also so that we are on the same page, I don't personally believe this event even happened, but I'm just trying to play in your field, not mine.
Again God took time to create the universe according to Genesis. God had to rest. Why did God have to rest. Why did it take him so long to create the universe? The God you are talking about would have created the universe outside of our pathetic human perceptions of time and would have needed no rest.
This is another verse which supports the idea that your view of God and the biblical view of God are different. Your God could drive out inhabitants even if they had chariots of reinforced steel.
Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
I'd love to discuss those verses in another thread because I think we'll get into the weeds a little bit with theology. I will respond though to your points: I think the bible is a spiritual book and is in regards to our relationships with ourselves, people, and God, and nothing else. God is saying this so the people at the time and laymen from everywhere at every time period would understand. It's not relevant to the story to say it technically correct because the bible sources its relevance from fulfilling the aforementioned purposes, not those of a high school textbook. I didn't say the miracle was flawed, just that the miracle would have to take care of a large number of complexities that are simply not mentioned in the text.
I think the bible is the word of God if you temper it with both logic and reason. People get swallowed by whales and survive in fantasy books and movies not in reality.
Without that we would have irrefutable holy proof that the earth does not move and can only be flat to account for the movement we see in the sun and moon.
Without that we would have laws sentencing people to death for doing the dishes on Saturday because it's the holy ruling of God, from God himself, that doing chores on the sabbath day should be punished by brutally and violently murdering the offender:
Numbers 15:32-36
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
The God that I worship would never order someone be brutally murdered for cleaning up their lawn on Saturday. The God that I worship (and the version of God that you describe) is so far beyond our chore schedule to assume that he was that petty would be a horrible insult to God.