Chapter 1: Our Complicated Bible
We don’t answer the question, “What is the Bible? Except with platitudes and various adjectives.
A Short History of the Complexification of the Bible. As the texts were copied by scribes they added to the text with markings to add in reading and illustrations. It wasn’t until the 1500s though that verses were added and each verse was printed as a separate paragraph. That implied that each verse stood alone as a nugget of biblical truth. People were directed to texts, not the text.
Bamboozled by Biblioclutter. Feature creep has ruined the Bible. When the explanation dwarfs the actual text, then the message from the text will be hard to find.