For what it may be worth, I found the book on Amazon and Kobo and downloaded a sample from each. The samples did not have the page numbers nor the extraneous line breaks.
Kobo CA:
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-color-of-christ-1
Amazon CA:
https://www.amazon.ca/Color-Christ-S.../dp/B009DH7YR8
That the screenshots posted by the OP were from a PDF to ePub conversion seems an inescapable conclusion. Since the source mentioned by the OP in a later message was Z-Library, a rather well known pirate site, I'm out of this discussion.
Am I a nasty, suspicious person? Very likely. Decades spent in IT do that to a person.