2006-07-24 00:44:18 · 7 answers · asked by Native 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Bible I believe has additional books in it.
The King James version to be is extremely difficult to read and understand.
2006-07-24 00:53:13 · answer #1 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The New Testament canon 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. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.
With love in Christ.
2006-07-24 23:29:19 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have extra books which is called the "Apocrypha" these 15 books were never canonnised by the early church. In 1546 the Roman Catholic recieved these books are being apart of the Bible. The Prostaint faith still doesn't recongise these books.
There are: 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, The Wisdom of Solomon, Eccelesiasticus, Baruch, Epistle if Jeremiah, The prayer of Azaraih, susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasseh, 1 and 2 Maccabees.
If you want to know more you can go to www.crosswalk.com or your church library and get a book on church history.
2006-07-24 07:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by momof1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Bible includes the Apocrypha.
2006-07-24 09:40:33 · answer #4 · answered by P P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have both and the catholic has more books than King James.
2006-07-24 08:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have four different books in the Catholics than the KJV...
Something about the Macabees, as I recall reading at one time...
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-07-24 07:52:56 · answer #6 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the stuff in it.
2006-07-24 07:48:33 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron C. L. C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋