No conflict with God's word, since God was speaking to Moses in the language of the ancient Egyptians. Not a sophisticated view of astrophysics. But Earth as a ball is intimated in a passage in the Book of Job. The rest pertained to Israel and the Israelites, all pretty much flat land for all that mattered. No hard shell for a sky. A "firmament" was a general idea of the sky or heaven; something where the Sun, Moon, and stars might be placed. And that's where they are---except now we are permitted to see how unimaginably huge God's universe is. Could it be that you are jealous of the fact that secular astronomers have a better appreciation of God's grandeur than you do? That you are spurning God by turning your eyes away from His creation?