The Bible's Flat Earth

Actually, purpledawn included a link to a relevant discussion thread, immediately following the sentence that you quoted. (The referenced thread was: ---> Not The Planet <---). That's a bit simplistic. The word "earth" can be used to refer to the ground that we stand on. Before Copernicus, planets were assumed to be wandering stars and we were taken to be at the center of the universe. The modern concept of planet did not even exist.

That pretty much describes what it looks like when looking out from the observation deck near the top of Sears Tower. Oops, I've got to remember that they renamed it to "Willis Tower".When I first took my children there (and it was "Sears Tower" back then), they commented that the people on the ground looked like ants, and "like grasshoppers" is just a slightly different metaphor expressing the same idea.It seems to me that you are reading far too much into those verses. A pizza is both round and flat (well, relatively flat except for a few bumps of pepperoni or whatever) at the same time.