The Bible was not originally inspired with divisions by chapter and verse. The ancient manuscripts didn't have them. One man, Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro, started to do this from 1244 to 1248 A.D. He did this while creating a concordance of the Latin Vulgate, in order to help people look up verses of the Bible. But the typical modern chapter divisions were apparently devised by Stephen Langton, who was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He started to do this around 1227 A.D. The Wycliffe English Bible did use them, as it was circulated in 1382.
As for the verses, one Jewish teacher, Mordecai Nathan, divided the Hebrew Old Testament into chapters in 1445. Later he and a scholar named Athias divided the Old Testament into verses in 1448. The system we see commonly today was put into place by Robert Estienne, or Stephanus who used the numbered verse system when printing the Bible in 1555 or 1551. Since the time of the Geneva Bible version (an English version published in Paris, 1560), which preceded the famous King James Version, nearly all Bible versions have used this same numbering system.
There is alot of sources on this, it is agreed upon by scholars. But many "laypeople" reading the bible don`t normally know this kind of stuff, and there lies the danger in preaching like this guy does :)
hundiejo
I guess I don't know how this is relevant. I know full well about the added divisions. Heck, in Greek, there were no punctuations or spaces of any kind!
What does that have to do with the video? And furthermore, how literally are you taking the video?
hundiejo
I don't know if you should take it as literally. Its purpose it to warn of divisions and how what we do to one another plays into our Adversary's hands.
Oh and which verses and where is your source? I'm not denying your claim, I just wanna know more about it.
eirikhordnes
What is the point of this video? This is extremely speculative theology. The verses was added by a monk in the middle ages.