Job 38:16
Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
Job lived in the middle east around 4000 years ago , modern man found springs in the sea in the early 1900’s.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
I guess he knew the earth wasn’t sitting on someones shoulders too since he says it hangs on nothing.
They knew way more than you think they did.
God gave you free will to believe whatever you want.
What’s that have to do with the People’s lack of understanding of the scope of the world at the time?
Hint: nothing.
You provided the verse that said the Earth was a sphere. I read the verse and it very clearly, in very plain English, said the Earth was a circle.
If THAT was translated incorrectly, shat else was?
I say it was translated with the knowledge at the time...that they thought the Earth was flat.
That they knew of water springs is irrelevant. They might have seen them in fresh water, but I doubt they went to the bottom of a sea and saw them.
Omg, the Earth hangs on nothing? That means they knew the Earth was not flat? Wait...flat things “hang”...
This is called “knowing stuff”?