Comments on: In the Catholic Bible is different from the Protestant Bible?

By: Lu P

Lu P — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

While both parties have answers that feel strongly, I would suggest instead of arguing who is right or not, we must take the time to simply live in any Bible version we prefer. God speaks to us when we read his any of his words.
I am a cradle Catholic who was better trained in the Baptist church which was my own faith. However … now I understand the importance of reading the Word of God is that I'm finding God is opening my eyes and my heart to the richness and fullness of Catholicism. The battle lasted all these years. I would rather be next to my brothers in Christ, fighting the war against Satan instead of doing battle on the books are correct. We both have a lot we can learn from each other if only we embraced as both loving and believing that God sent his Son to die for our sins. Lets stop being like the Sadducees and Pharasiees and discussing the minute, when there are many lost souls who need to know the love and mercy of Jesus Christ.

By: imacatho

imacatho — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

The New Testament canon of the Catholic and Protestant Bible the Bible is the same with 27 books.
The difference in the Old Testament actually dates back to the days before and during the life of Christ. At this point, no official Jewish canon of Scripture.
The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century BC. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.
The early Christian Church was born in this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as their Bible. Remember that the early Christians were just writing the documents what became the New Testament.
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the emerging Christian church, Jewish leaders met and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books of the Septuagint.
The books were removed Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Ecclesiasticus and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).
The Christian church filled with the Holy Spirit does not follow suit but kept all the books of the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Total Books.
1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.
The books that were removed supported such things as
• prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
• Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
• The intercession of the saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
• Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)
The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.
Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
With love in Christ.

By: Wolfebla

Wolfebla — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

The reason that the Catholic Bible has more books has much to do with the doctrines of the Protestant churches. Since they can not (or not) accept the same biblical doctrine of purgatory, which cut the books as the Maccabees to the Bible appear to contain any reference to prayer for the dead.
In general, Protestants seem unable to cope with all highly mystical or spiritual in nature, so were the books of Judith, Tobit, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus, too. At one point, Martin Luther, even wanted the canonical book of James eliminated because it points to the need for works of mercy and charity to keep the faith alive.
And to answer your final question, if I were offered a complete edition of Shakespeare, or version of the comic, what do you think is going to be more precise? I can guarantee that it is not the one advertising for X-Ray glasses and Whoopee cushions on the back.
The complete and accurate idem Catholic Bible versus "* Have it our way" mess of a Protestant Bible.
Edit:
Thanks for the laugh, 'Prophet'. The Protestant Church began as an act of rebellion and heresy against the legitimate spiritual authority of the only true Church of Christ on earth, Catholicism.
If Catholics are not Christians, then the Protestants have no chance, and how they continue in their rebellion against Christ and His Church.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

No real bible compilation of works available that were thought Scripture long after Christ's death. Early versions could find, which do not have exactly the same as our present Bible texts, but they qualify as versions of it are of the AD-300.
That is when the Catholic belief system was formed through discussion and advice.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

Protestant fundamentalists would cite Rev 22:18 to denounce the Catholic Bible for Catholics ", he added" Deuterocanonical books. Indeed, it was Luther who took in the Reformation and violated Rev 22:19. As a result, all Protestants are heretics Bibles and incomplete. You must remember that the Bible was a gift of Catholic principles. The one, holy, apostolic actually predates the Bible.
Paul was the main contributor to the NT and the Church before his conversion dates. See Acts 1:5, Acts 2:38-41, Acts 4:4 and Acts 5:11 of the one Church that Jesus created in action before Paul (Saul) was a member and wrote about the Church.
Jesus spoke of a church, 30,000 churches no different. Protestants as to create a "different" to the church every day met the wrong philosophy of what the local minister, "" believe in. Most of the sects do not have the training and the theology of those who have a higher religious education should ignore the clear contraindications that points out its errors. Remember, there is nothing in the Bible that are wrong with Catholic doctrine.
The Catholic Bible is completely true.

By: tebone03

tebone03 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

The Catholic Bible is the complete Bible and the true Bible, the Catholic Church compiled the Bible. When Martin Luther was removed 7 books (the deutrocanonical) and remove and add words to the Bible.
Catholic Christian

By: Jeanmari

Jeanmari — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

There are minor differences. They like to use the King James version, which is in old English. Not only is obsolete, many of the meanings of words have changed.
†

By: Amarillo Slim

Amarillo Slim — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

The main difference is that Protestants seem obsessed with the cult of Mary, while the Catholics worship only God.

By: Melody Rose Deus Caritas Est

Melody Rose Deus Caritas Est — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

Because the Protestants took books out of the Bible
The Catholic Bible is the original

By: cristoig

cristoig — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0000

In the first century Jerusalem there was at least four canons OT in use by different Jewish groups. It was the Canon of the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Jews of Ethiopia and the / Essene Jewish diaspora. Jesus and the disciples used the Septuagint which was the Canon of the Diaspora / Essenes. We know this because it is cited in the New Testament. This Canon is still the canon of the Christians, until after the Reformation, and indeed until about 200 years ago, when the Protestants adopted a condensed version of the Canon Deuterocanonicals elimination of their Bibles. Even the AKJ originally contained the complete Christian Canon. It has been said by critics of the Church of Christ that never Deuterocanonicals believed to be inspired and the opposite is true. The decision taken by Christians as to which books are inspired and useful for teaching was decided at the African Synods in the late fourth and early fifth century. There was never any question about their inspiration.
The Old Testament canon chosen by the Protestants is actually a Jewish canon by the Jews not chosen until after the establishment of Christianity as a result of the spread of Christianity to slow the growth of the group in Jerusalem after the fall of the Temple in 70 AD. Until then, as I said there were not many in use fees. The adoption of the offense, the Canon Deuterocanonicals joined the Jews against the Christians was decided at the Jewish Council for Jamnia because too hard Deuterocanonicals mentioned the Messiah fulfilled in Christ.
Some Protestants who claim that only Jews have the authority to choose Canon but the Church that the decision to defer to Christ and his disciples, and it is clear through biblical research, the Septuagint is the Bible used by the first century Church and quoted in the NT Scriptures. The fact that Protestants choose to adopt the Canon, which was approved by the same Jews that accused our Lord that led to his crucifixion suggests the origin of this confusion from the father of lies that led the Pharisees to Christ and accused at the request of his punishment. It's another way that Satan is divided and separates the body of Christ to the faithful refuse the prayer of Christ that we are all one in Christ for his Church. The Christian church has always used the Septuagint as Canon and never the truncated version of modernist Protestants.
Some Protestants believe that Catholics mistakenly added to the Bible with Deuterocanonicals but this shows an ignorance of their own history and the history of Christianity as evidenced by the Church of Christ. The facts are that the Protestants removed Deuterocanonicals and even strongly considered eliminating some of the NT books currently in use by Protestants and Catholics. Fr Martin Luther was in favor of removing the book of James because it conflicted with his heretical man made doctrines of the "Solas", Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide. The heretic Ulrich Zwingli wanted to remove the Gospel of John, for his teaching of the commandment of the Body of Christ Food and drink his blood, which contradicts your point of view of a real absence of Christ instead of a real presence in the Eucharist. Even FR. Martin Luther could not support a departure from Scripture and deny that Christ is truly and really present in the Eucharist, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
In Christ
Fr Joseph