I am pretty much anticipating that absolutely no one will agree with me on this.......
But, I personally think that dividing the chapters of the Bible into "verses" was a colossal mistake.....
Why? you ask.......
Because, in my opinion, it destroys the original meaning of the passage if someone just lifts one verse out and tries to make that verse's incomplete meaning stand alone by itself.....
The Apostle Paul, for example, had an interesting habit of writing 200 to 300 word sentences. Some of the "chapters" in his epistles consist of almost just one single sentence.
And, the way that Paul and others wrote in the First Century was to express an entire thought in one sentence.....
That is why some of his sentences are so long.......
When someone lifts one "verse" out of a chapter of, let's say, the book of Romans, they are literally lifting a tiny section of an entire thought out of context and attempting to make that tiny portion stand on its own as a complete thought......
But, in Paul's style of writing, you need the rest of the sentence to fully understand his original complete thought.....
So....in my opinion, chapters are okay, but "verses" have really messed things up......
But, I personally think that dividing the chapters of the Bible into "verses" was a colossal mistake.....
Why? you ask.......
Because, in my opinion, it destroys the original meaning of the passage if someone just lifts one verse out and tries to make that verse's incomplete meaning stand alone by itself.....
The Apostle Paul, for example, had an interesting habit of writing 200 to 300 word sentences. Some of the "chapters" in his epistles consist of almost just one single sentence.
And, the way that Paul and others wrote in the First Century was to express an entire thought in one sentence.....
That is why some of his sentences are so long.......
When someone lifts one "verse" out of a chapter of, let's say, the book of Romans, they are literally lifting a tiny section of an entire thought out of context and attempting to make that tiny portion stand on its own as a complete thought......
But, in Paul's style of writing, you need the rest of the sentence to fully understand his original complete thought.....
So....in my opinion, chapters are okay, but "verses" have really messed things up......
