The Bible's Flat Earth

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From an earthly perspective, it is the sun that appears to move across the sky... so the writers were simply explaining the things they saw from the perspective that they saw them

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How come it is ok to say that the writers explained things the way they saw them when talking about the sun, but not for the earth itself? More importantly how can you tell when they were writing from perspective and not?As it has been said earlier in the thread, looking at the horizon the earth seems flat.