The Bible Txt -

October 26, 2023

For the last 500 years, we have been formatting the Bible for utility. Chapters (added in the 13th century) and verses (added in the 16th century) are incredible for finding things. But they are terrible for feeling things.

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It cannot defend itself. It cannot put a disclaimer at the top of Psalm 137 ( "This is imprecatory, please don't literally bash babies" ). It just sits there. Raw. Honest. Messy.

We often treat Scripture like a patient on an operating table. We dissect it, analyze it, and label every organ. But sometimes, you have to stop dissecting the flower and just look at it. October 26, 2023 For the last 500 years,

Listen for the breathlessness of the narrative. Notice how fast Peter (the source for Mark) tells the story. Notice the lack of fanfare.

Tonight, copy the Gospel of Mark into a Notepad file. Turn off your Wi-Fi. Read it in Courier New. The Bible

But what happens when you turn off all the noise? What happens when you read Genesis 1 as a paragraph, not a bullet-point list? What happens when you read Paul’s run-on sentence in Ephesians 1 without someone forcing a period where Paul didn’t put one?