So if you do not accept that part of the Bible as the literal truth then what other parts do you think are wrong as well?
“So if you do not accept that part of the Bible as the literal truth then what other parts do you think are wrong as well?”
Nice try. I always enjoy a tasty snack of muddled logic, and that’s a fine specimen of begging the question you have served up.
Bible writers used language in the same fashion that we do today. Earth was the frame of reference then just as it is now. The sun appears to rise and we still speak that way.
If I hear a weather reporter speak of sunrise being at 5am I don’t try to extrapolate that into a claim that he is proposing a geocentric solar system. Some fools might, but then that’s what fools do.
But let’s not get sidetracked. The Joshua 10 passage is about a battle and not celestial mechanics. Joshua speaks to his troops using some lines from the Book of Jasher about the Sun and Moon standing still and his army goes out and routes the Amorites.
Jasher is a poetic book that David also quoted from. In my experience poetry tends to be a little more on the loose side rather than the literal side. It probably confuses literalists, who have difficulty with metaphor.