2nd in series on knowing and sharing the Gospel
Stupidly, in a talk on Truth I fall in to the trap of quoting with errors a fact I had heard and not evaluated.
Mis-remembered, Psalm118:8 means there are 1188 chapters before it and after it. No, the fact was 1189 chapters in the whole Bible.
Fact not evaluated: Psalm 118 is not the centre chapter of the Bible. There are 594 chapters up to (and including) Psalm 116, and 594 Chapters from 118 on (including Psalm 118). 594+1+594 = 1189
This makes Psalm 117, (not Psalm 118) the centre chapter of the Bible.
The King James Bible has 31,174 verses — an even number — so there is no one "centre" verse: the centre would be a combination of the 15,587th and the 15,588th verses, which do fall within Psalm 118 (Psalm 118:8-9, to be exact). which is still good as together they say:
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in humans.
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
So my statement was based on a truth, mis-remembered and therefore not fully true, apologies. Given the subject of the talk and the thrust of what I was saying, this was a very bad mistake!!!!
The key verse is Ps 118:9 which gives you the number of chapters, Psalm 118 verses 8 and 9 are the centre verses of the Bible.
PS... even now I haven't checked that myself but relied on a 'myth correction' website for the information. Anyone feel like counting all the verses?
