Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power, and motion.
Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 B.C.: “In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter] . . . And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters.” The first thing God tells man is that He controls of all aspects
of the universe.
Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. Scripture tells us in Hebrews 11:3 that the “things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
It is also interesting to note that scientists now understand the universe is expanding or stretching out.
Nine times in Scripture we are told that God stretches out the heavens like a curtain (e.g., Psalm 104:2).
At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth’s free float in space: “He . . . hangs the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7).
The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round: “It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth” (Isaiah 40:22). This is not a reference to a
flat disk, as some skeptics maintain, but to a sphere.
Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world.
Opinions vary. 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"]
Read the accompanying verses. It absolutely obviously describes a flat disk.
Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world.
Someone has sold you complete nonsense. No educated man for hundreds of years before Columbus had believed that the earth was flat. The curvature of the earth's surface is quite obvious to mariners. The ancient Greeks even worked out the size of the globe to a pretty fair degree of accuracy and this fact was well known to educated people in the 15th Century. Columbus was mocked, if anything correctly, because it was known that the world was too large for him to reach china with the seafaring technology of the time. He and all his crew would have died of starvation if the Americas hadn't been unexpectedly in the way of his voyage.