I used another method to determine the centre of the Bible and I got a different answer. I took a KJV, added up the number of pages in the New Testament (210) and in the Old Testament (684). When you add them together (this is where it gets scarey for me because my math is terrible and unreliable but I'll give it a shot) you get 894. When you divide that in half, you get 447. When I open the Book at P. 447, the centre splits right down between verses 2 and 3 of Psam 66.
2 Sing out the honor of His name;
Make His praise glorious.
3 Say to God,
“How
bawesome are Your works!
cThrough the greatness of Your power
Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/#_ftn3 b Ps. 65:5
c Ps. 18:44
http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/#_ftnref3The New King James Version. 1996, c1982 . Thomas Nelson: Nashville
That's pages 446 and 447. If you want pages 447 and 448, it's Ps. 68 between verses 22 and 23:
22 The Lord said, “I will bring
bback from Bashan,
I will bring
them back
cfrom the depths of the sea,
23
dThat
8your foot may crush
them in blood,
eAnd the tongues of your dogs
may have their portion from
your enemies.”
http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/#_ftn6 b Num. 21:33; Deut. 30:1–9; Amos 9:1–3
c Ex. 14:22
d Ps. 58:10
8 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.
you may dip your foot
e 1 Kin. 21:19; Jer. 15:3
http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/#_ftnref6The New King James Version. 1996, c1982 . Thomas Nelson: Nashville
I suspect we get different results with different methods because your method depends on how chapters and verses were divided while mine looks at how many pages are covered with Holy Script. Some chapters and verses are much longer than other chapters and verses. Perhaps another Bible would be set up differently enough to place the centre at another location.
Another item of interest. The Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bibles are not the same. So it would depend which one you are using as to whether your method brings the same results as it would for another person using the same method. As for this verse:
Psalm 118:8 "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Man."
It seems that neither humans nor God/gods/goddess(es) can be fully trusted at all times. Sometimes really nasty things happen. Sometimes they happen to Christians and sometimes they happen to others. God is no respecter of persons. Nor is fate or whatever else humans choose to trust. This conclusion is based on several decades of observing life to see whether that verse is true or false.
All the same, it is interesting to see how much stock people put into number games they play with the Bible. If I've got my facts straight, then numerology as a science died out a couple millenia ago.
that is ok.
