Yes I realize the chapters, and verses, were added years later. But give me a break. How could anyone keep up and learn what the catholics believe with all that. By the time you got through one part, section, chapter, subtitle, heading, etc:) :) you will have forgotten the other part, section, etc... No wonder there is so much confusion about what the catholicss are suppose to believe. From my discussion on anoter thread with catholics it seems to me that the catholic church is ALL THINGS to ALL PEOPLE. Just what ever you want they can find it in their parts, headings, sections, so on and so forth.
Becky
You have a point. There is actually a complicated side to theology though. Things like why the Israelites were not supposed to pronounce the Hebrew name of God, circumcision, the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant, dietary rules, laws regulating marriage, on purification and uncleanness, the nature of angels and so forth - these have to be discussed in some sort of context which is not necessarily simple or immediately obvious just based on scriptural citations. Jewish law, for instance, is rather elaborate, shall we say.
On the chapters and verses, they were added, I believe, by the Catholic biblical scholar St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420).