Are Chapter and verse numbers in Scipture bad?

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Gods peace be with all of you friends of God (theophilus’),

The Catholic Church added chapter and verse numbers to Scripture. This aided in the use of the printing press workers to set type among other things. There were other reasons too of course.

Today, even in this forum, we have Christians quoteing a single verse to prove a point. I have even seen one poster quote just a few words out of 1 verse from Scripture to “prove” beyound any doubt that his opinion was correct. (By the way, he was wrong and out of context with the book of course.)

Here are my questions:

Did adding chapter and verse numbers help in understanding Scripture or add to its confussion by loosing ‘context?’

Did the schismatic churches accelerate in schism by the use of verses out of context? Verses were added shorlty before the “re”-formation began in the early 1500’s.

Did verses alone add to the false theology of teaching whatever self-interpretation you have a whim or fancy to teach?

Should we have Bibles that omit chapter and verses so that we are forced to read the entire book at one sitting to ‘see’ the entire context of the book?

Do us Catholics just not see that context is totally unimportant to any single verse?

Any comments would be great. I am just posing questions and no answer here is neccessarily right or wrong. I just mean for this thread to be a way to open our eyes to discuss this issue in a freindly way. Many never knew that chapter and verese were added hundreds of years after the Catholic Church gave us the Bible. (Yea I know, the Jews gave us the OT but it was the Katholic Church that gave us the complete 76 book and inspired Bible.)

A prisoner of Christ,
 
Well, Jesus in the Gospels sometimes quotes OT scriptures, and naturally enough, doesn’t quote chapter and verse numbers, since there was no such thing at the time.

When I am quoting from the bible, I like to quote a passage, using quotation marks, and omitting the chapter and verse numbers for purposes of readability. They do have a use in citation, of course, since one is thereby able to locate the passage more easily in one’s bible.

It’s much easier to remember a particular quote than it is to remember the chapter and verse from which it came.
 
Hmmm, I thought the chapter an d verse numbers came after the printing press and were added by Queen Elizabeth (or another of the English Monarchs). Can’t remember where I read that, Anyone else know?
 
The 1913 version of the Catholic encyclopedia answers the question of how, when, where and why we have divisions in the books of the Bible: Scripture just scroll down to **E. Liturgical Division ** and the following paragraph: F. Divisions to facilitate reference.
 
I think there is some truth that adding chapter and verse has “diminished” the message.

Ever try reading a Gospel or Epistle as if there were no numbers. They are really love letters. And I would never add numbers to a letter to my wife.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

Mr S

(some long posters here might think of adding chapter and verse:whacky: )
 
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The 1913 version of the Catholic encyclopedia answers the question of how, when, where and why we have divisions in the books of the Bible: Scripture just scroll down to **E. Liturgical Division ** and the following paragraph: F. Divisions to facilitate reference.
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Thanks for the link! Maybe I couldn’t recall my source because I didn’t have one? :whacky:
 
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