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And you can't claim that round does not mean spherical. I can picture the heavens like a tent overhead. Isaiah wasn't given a scientific definition here, just what it looked like. If you have to, stick the tent poles in the North and South pole and along the equator. I don't care what you can do, but I can conceptualize it. He is using poetic and not scientific language to describe his concept. He doesn't say the earth stretches out like a piece of paper. He says it is a circle. A circle can be 2 or 3 dimensional as can a square.

Regardless, the point still stands that Christians have not been the ones to postulate a flat earth. You may find individual examples of people identifying themselves as Christians who have done so, but they are quite few and far between. The flat-earth tag was put upon us in the 1800s and is a LIE and a SLUR! To put it in a context you may understand, it would be like saying that Republicans believe that abortion is just fine because Arnold Schwarzeneggar said so and he's a Republican. It is an inductive fallacy in that one renegade Republican believes that way so the statement "Republicans don't believe in abortion" is false. The latter may be a blanket statement, but it is far closer to the truth than to say Republicans are pro-abortion. Likewise, when you make the claim that Christians are flat earthers, you commit the same error. It isn't true, and if you study the subject you'll find it is flat out false.

A circle can be 2 or 3 dimensional as can a square.

No, it can't. A circle is a two dimensional object. In three dimensions we have cylinders, we have spheres, we have ellipsoids, but we don't have circles. Regardless, the point still stands that Christians have not been the ones to postulate a flat earth

No, it does not. Some Christians thought it was flat, and claimed biblical upport for it. Now others are claiming it's spherical and claiming biblical support for that. Let me remind your original statement was "Many many years ago most scientists believed the earth was flat (incidentally, the Bible has always claimed the earth was round). ". You've withdrawn the claim that most scientists believed the earth was flat. And you've not shown the Bible says the earth is spherical. You were the one who started the rant about how people claim Christians said the earth was flat. I never made that claim. I said that the passage that you claim implies the earth is spherical, in fact says it's a crcle, and some Christians - not all - have interpeted that to mean the earth is flat.