re: Flat Earthers

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The Bible doesn't address many areas of science, but it is accurate when it does. For example:

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While I am not interested in debating the entire Bible with you the idea that "Moses" understood infectious disease because he said eat steak and crickets but not bacon and lobster seems a little far fetched. Like Nostradamus and Baba Vanga if you make enough vague statements at some point people could argue you were a genius.

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Is it disingenuous to say a circle and a sphere are round? Am I being dishonest when I say this?

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Well, it is either disingenuous or ignorant. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you knew a little about the book you were quoting. The fact is the rare time sphere is used in that verse is in modern translations and was changed from circle to meet with current understanding. The Bible was not clear on it at all, it has been changed.

You were indeed being dishonest when you cited the authority of the Bible and say it called the earth a sphere when every English version until very recently has used the word circle. The words circle and sphere mean very different (opposite) things in a discussion of flat earth.