White gold is only about 75% gold. It's mixed with other metals, including nickel. (As someone who is allergic to nickel, I can attest to this firsthand!)
If Renaissance thinkers had bothered to read Isaiah, they would have noticed that God said that He holds up the "sphere of the earth"
Isaiah did not mention a "sphere." It mentions a "circle." (Isiah 40:22). The Earth, of course, is neither a circle nor a sphere.
oblate spheroid :-)
I've posted this before; I'll probably have to post it many times more:
I've done a bit of looking into Strong's Concordance for the King James version:
Isa 40:22I've underlined the phrase with the word for "circle" [chuwg] (Strong's 02329). Here are the only other verses that use the same word (also underlined), none of which implies a "sphere":
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in
Job 22:14Word Search Results for "sphere" -- NONE
Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.Pro 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth
Word Search Results for "ball " [duwr] (Strong's 01754). Here are all verses that use the word for "ball" [NOTE: Two verses are in the same book as the "circle of the earth" passage, so the author of Isaiah had both words at his disposal]:
Isa 22:18
He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.Isa 29:3
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.Eze 24:5
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, [and] make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
[The Hebrew lexicon gives this meaning as "a burning pile, a round heap of wood"]
I think in speaking of white gold, you are talking about what is done with it to give it strength in use as jewelry etc.
Adding nickel is obviously NOT part of any purification process. Purifying Gold removes what is not gold - it does not include adding things to the gold, that is counter to the concept. IE, you don't seem to be paying attention, are misguided in your response or are being misleading.
Use a Hebrew concordance on the word sphere or circle as referenced in Isaiah 40. How one holds up a "circle" in a 3D universe equals a sphere.
In either case, flat earth theory didn't come from the Bible.