what is the difference between a catholic bible and a protestant one?

Question

i have seen both but was just wondering what makes them different

Answer 1

The New Testament canons of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same.

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation, 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 into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Actually the common King James Version incorporated all seventy three motivated books, simply as they have been outlined as soon as and forever via the bishops of the Catholic Church on the Council of Carthage in 397 AD. It was once the determination of Martin Luther to take away 10 of the motivated books from the Holy Bible - three New Testament books and seven Old Testament books. Fortunately his fans might now not listen of disposing of the writings of the Apostles themselves, and have been almost a rebel over the hassle. So Luther sponsored off and left the New Testament intact, however nonetheless eliminated the 7 Old Testament texts. This is why the Protestant Bible is incomplete, having handiest sixty six books rather of the whole seventy three. And if Luther had his means, Protestants might have handiest sixty three books. The Catholic Church nonetheless makes use of the whole and whole Holy Bible, because it was once firstly outlined, and because it was once utilized by each and every Christian on the earth for one million,2 hundred years among the time it was once compiled and the time Luther eliminated materials he did not like. Other than those 7 lacking books, the one variations among the common variant and the Protestant variant are a couple of phrases Luther inserted into the textual content right here and there, so that you can help a few of his new doctrines. For instance, in locations wherein the textual content states that religion is needed for salvation (a real declaration), Luther inserted the phrase "on my own", in final result rewriting the textual content to mention that "religion on my own" is needed for salvation (an unfaithful declaration that immediately contradicts different statements within the Word of God).

Answer 3

The Catholic Bible (or "Douay Rheims") was the original translated by St. Jerome. The Protestant Bible, KJV was edited by a King who seeked to gain popularity with the people by omitting the "difficult" passages. Martin Luther also threw out all books (seven in all) that specifically proved the Catholic religion to be true. The Protestant Bible is not a Bible at all. Missionaries would burn Protestant Bibles because they said it was better for people to have no bible than to have the Protestant book claiming to be one.

Answer 4

The Catholic Bible contains a few more books which are called the Apocrypha by Protestants

Answer 5

There is no difference. Although the Catholic bible you refer to may be the King James version, with its old fashioned language, and teh Protestant one may be translated in modern day english. The Bible doesn't come in different versions!

Answer 6

The protestant Bible lacks several books. Besides, it has no explanations at the bottom of the pages

Answer 7

Here's some info on what Protestants refer to as the Apocrypha:

"These consist of seven books: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Machabees; also certain additions to Esther and Daniel."

Much more background at link below:

Answer 8

Some apocryphal books were taken out of the catholic bible. Apocryphal means false. If one reads them, there are some obvious errors.

Answer 9

Basically, the Catholic bible has a few more books in it, referring mostly to ceremonial information.