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You obviously don't think about it. You simply dismiss it without any thought at all.
Once again you insult us.
There may for all I know be some here who believe Genesis to be poetic, but There re plenty who believe it to be literally true, that God really did create all things by His almighty powers, just as Genesis 1 & 2 tell us, that Adam and Eve were the first human beings, that they disobeyed God's command, and so on. What many of us say (and I think you have agreed) is that Genesis does not mention the earth's shape.
I don't think anyone made that claim about Genesis 1. About the Psalms and parts of Job, definitely.
I don't understand how, but I think 93,000,000 miles in space is different to 93,000,000 on land.
Yet you said in post 587: "There is no verse that specifically states that the earth is flat." Now you say that the Book of Job does. The word "earth" occurs 44 times in Job, and not one of those times says anything about the shape of the earth. The words, "He (God) hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7) do fit well with a globe earth. I wonder which part of the book of Job you are thinking of that says the earth is flat.
That doesn't prove that the earth is flat. Besides, unless you believe that the sea has literal doors, that the seas burst forth from a literal womb, that the sea is literally dressed in clouds, and has a literal swaddling band, or that death has literal gates and doors, the whole passage is poetic.
How many times do you need to be told that the words AS and LIKE are similes; they are comparing something to something else?
You said ' The word "earth" occurs 44 times in Job, and not one of those times says anything about the shape of the earth. '
Well, perhaps you could tell me which of the 44 mentions of earth in Job says that it is a flat disc. As I said, I looked at all 44, and couldn't find one. although I did find a verse that says God hangs the earth upon nothing, which doers fit with the globe earth.
