You're not going to get off that easy. 1. Where does it say the earth is the center of His universe? The Joshua passage says that the earth was fixed. So at that one time the earth was fixed. That works both ways, and it does not say that the earth was always fixed- at least not in that passage.
2. This is not a truth or lie question. This is a question of what the Bible means. 3. This one question does not determine whether I think the Bible is a lie. You're trying to back me in a corner and it won't work. We are disagreeing on what it means, not what it says.
Genesis 1 is the toledot of the beginnings -the genesis/origin of the heavens and the earth.
Reading Genesis 1 leaves no room for anything other than the facts as the record of the beginnings/the genesis state them; from the POV of God
who was there.
The record states that the heavens did not exist outside the earth, separate from the earth, when they were both brought into being on day 1.
Day 1: the heavens and the earth are not yet named, but the heavens are powers and the earth is a globe of water/mayim.
The Holy Spirit brooded over the face of the waters/the deep, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
God said: "Let there be light", and there was light. That is not from man's POV. Adam was not there. God was there,
and it is all His POV.
God divided the light from the darkness and the evening and the morning were one/echad day. He named the darkness and the morning "day and night", and the two,
making one revolution around the globe of darkness and light, and back to darkness again from the beginning point was named "echad Day"
So the earth was not named yet, and the firmament was not stretched out from the fixed in place earth on day 1, but the light is brought forth and Day is made and named and the day and the night circle the globe which is fixed, and the earth circles nothing.
There were no heavens stretched out at all when light was brought into being. They were not even named, nor was the earth named.
So that is day 1. A fixed earth; no dry brought forth yet; and no heavens stretched out from the earth.
Now on day 2, God split the waters of the globe in two, and raised half of the waters way up, leaving half below, covering the globe, and stretching the powers of the firmament way out between them, and making stories of "heavens" as they were stretched out.
The light had it's birth out of the darkness right here on this globe of water, and the light was stretched out with the heavens.....
God named the stretched out firmament "heavens". He has "stories" of them. The face of the firmament is the atmosphere where the fowl fly, so He said in Genesis 1; and stretched way out, but below the half of the waters of the globe/earth, are the other "stories" of the heavens.
[The third heaven is where Mount Eden is, and Paradise, God's Garden, where the Tree of Life is, is in that third heaven. Adam was taken from the earth below and had daily communion with the Creator in Paradise/third heaven above, but when Adam became defiled, he was cast back down to earth below and the way was barred by cherubim with flaming swords, lest he enter Paradise in the third heaven and eat of the Tree of Life and live forever, in the forever ruined temple of his flesh and then be forever unfit to be remade in regenerated flesh, for the Glory to indwell Him as he was created for, in the beginning...but I digress]
We have only covered to day 2 of what Genesis 1 factually states.
Earth was not stretched out from the waters and named "earth" until day 3, but the "breadth of the outstretched heavens" belong to the earth, and Mount Eden, with Paradise, are in the third layer/story of the stretched out heavens, and the heavens were stretched out from this very earth when it was yet a globe of water with no "dry" brought forth out of the waters.
God did not
form/bring forth the "dry" out of the waters until day 3.
Gen 1:9,10 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry/
yabbashah [land] appear: and it was so. And God called the dry [
land] Earth/Eretz; and the gathering together of the waters/Mayim called he Seas/Yim: and God saw that
it was good.
So we see that the facts state the heavens did not exist as stretched out stories [of powers] until the waters of this very created earth were cut in two, and the powers -the heavens- were stretched out from this globe of water itself, and stretched out in a circle around the globe, but always, half the waters of this created earth are above the stretched out heavens.
Those waters above the heavens were created right here on this globe. The only way they got out there above the heavens was on day 2, when the heavens were stretched out between earth's cut in two waters.
That needs no interpretation, but apparently, it does need eye salve for the blind to see what is actually said.