The Bible doesn’t specifically side with one or the other, and people often take scriptures out of context, like 1 Chronicles 16:30, to suggest that the Earth is explicitly flat or round. I believe in a round Earth because the flat Earth model has observable, testable scientific problems. I don’t get how the day-and-night cycle, like time zones (it’s night in Asia when it’s daytime in the Americas), works on a flat Earth.

The Moon reflects the Sun’s light. It can’t do that if the whole Earth experiences night and day at the same time, because we wouldn’t be able to see the Moon if the Sun sets beneath the Earth at night. Also, the seasons are opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres because of Earth’s tilt. Wouldn’t a flat disk cause a consistent global climate? In addition, how do eclipses work in the Flat Earth model? I’m sure a flat-earth believer has answers to those questions, but I don’t see any flaws in the round-earth model that need fixing in the first place.

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