I believe very strongly in scripture showing us that God has revealed his truth to us in two ways.
- His word and science.
The word.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
John 1:14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Word Made Flesh
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Science.
Colossians 1:16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Hebrews 11:3 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
We also can see glimpses of it in Gods responses to Job.
So we can look to science and scripture to find the most accurate picture.
Such as the event in Joshua 10.
We can see the scripture is trying to point out a few things. A war happened. The Israelites won through a microwave by God and by fighting. As stated earlier miracles are breaks in reality. They are outliers, not the normal.
We also know that science shows us that the sun never moves. Those verses imply it does. So maybe the earth stood still, maybe the earth titled or maybe he produced a secondary light. We don’t know. But we do know that scripture is clear a war was won and a miracle took place ( scripture) but that’s the sun did not freeze implying it moved because it’s always still.
So we see real historical events and fiction combined to create a story that ancient Jewish people could understand.