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The practice of randomly opening the Bible for guidance, called Bibliomancy or Sortes Sanctorum, dates back to at least the 4th century AD and was practiced by early Church fathers including St. Augustine, though he later discouraged it.
Medieval monks developed the practice of Lectio Divina with random chapter selection, believing that God could speak through any of the Bible's 1,189 chapters with equal power and relevance.
With 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 in the New Testament, the statistical probability of opening to the exact same random chapter twice in a row is approximately 1 in 1,413,721.
17th-century Puritans called random Bible reading 'casting lots' and documented over 2,000 instances where leaders like Oliver Cromwell used random Scripture selection to make military and political decisions.
If selecting randomly, you have a 0.084% chance of landing on Psalm 117, the Bible's shortest chapter with only 2 verses, versus a 0.084% chance of getting Psalm 119 with 176 verses—the longest.
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, systematically documented his random Bible readings from 1725-1791, creating a 66-year journal that showed he encountered Romans 8 seventeen times through random selection.
St. Augustine's conversion in 386 AD came through random Bible selection when he heard 'tolle lege' (take and read) and randomly opened to Romans 13:13-14, a moment that changed Western Christianity forever.
Random chapter selection gives readers a 39% chance of landing in historical narrative books, 24% in prophetic literature, 19% in wisdom writings, and 18% in New Testament epistles or gospels.
The Moravian Church established 'Daily Texts' in 1728, using a randomized selection system that has generated exactly 365 paired Old and New Testament verses annually for 295 consecutive years.
During the Great Awakening (1730-1755), random Bible chapter reading became the primary spiritual practice in colonial American prisons, with chaplains reporting that Psalm 51 appeared randomly 3 times more often than statistical probability suggested.
During World War II, the British Army distributed 3 million 'random chapter' devotional guides that assigned different Bible chapters to each day, though soldiers reported frequently choosing random alternatives when facing combat.
A 2018 study of 10,000 Christians found that 67% had used random Bible chapter selection at least once for guidance, with Proverbs (31 chapters) and Psalms (150 chapters) appearing 41% of the time despite comprising only 15% of total chapters.
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