I think the current bible we have is pretty swell. It's in a language that people can understand, it's more accurate than ever before and with chapters and verses we can find passages with relative ease.
BUT...
Are the chapter and verses training people to think of the Bible in small, sometimes unhelpful, chunks?
It would have been more difficult to quote the bible out of context prior to the inclusion of the small numeric assistants.
How would preaching be transformed if the only option was to split up books into thoughts, not the encompassing chapter divisions (which aren't always helpful)?
No, I'm not on a crusade to have the chapters and verses removed, but it's something to ponder a life without them.
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