Every Christ believing faith all have the same Bible except Catholics. Why are these 7 books added to theirs. And Why arn't they in the standard Bible?
2006-08-11 15:47:25 · 17 answers · asked by Native 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-08-11 15:56:33 · update #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.
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2006-08-11 16:40:18 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not true. The Orthodox church has the same bible as the Catholics and the other Eastern Churches as well. The Ethiopian church has even more books than the Catholic bible.
This is how it started. At the time of Jesus Christ there was two major scripture texts. One was written in Greek and called the Septuagent, the other was written in Hebrew and called the Masoraic. (I'm not sure of the spelling).. Anyway, scholars could distinguish these texts from each other when they were quoted in the New Testament. It seems that both were used, but the Greek text was used more, at least 70% of the time. So, the Catholics said, that if the Greek Septuagent was good enough for Jesus it was good enough for them. They used the Septuagent as the Catholic Old Testament. In fact for the next 1,500 years all Christians used the same Old Testament. Then the protestant revolution began with Martin Luther in 1513. Martin Luther decided that he didn't like some of the books in the Septuagent. Instead he reverted back to the Hebrew Masoraic text, and said that it was more Jewish, and the Jews gave us the Old Testament. That's how the Protestant removed the 7 books.
2006-08-11 15:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The complete canon (list) of Bible books was determined by the Catholic church in the late 4th century.
With the advent of Protestantism in the 15th century, it was discovered that certain books did not agree with the new Protestant beliefs.
Since the primary rule of faith for Protestants is to rely only on what is written in the Bible, this was a problem.
It was soon resolved by de-canonizing the offending books and adding a key word here and there, when nobody was looking.
The original King James Bible contained all the books. Later versions deleted them.
The real question is: By what authority did Protestants remove those books and make all those other changes?
2006-08-12 06:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question ... there are more books in the Roman Catholic Bible than in the Protestant Bibles, but these books weren't added to the Catholic Bibles ... they are the original books of The original Bible. During some of the reformations, those books were taken out of the original Bible, and that is how the Protestant Bible was formed. So, the Roman Catholic Bible is actually the standard Bible, but during the reformation, certain books were removed from The Bible in order to provide consistency during the claims during the reformation. Remember, the denomination "Protestant" was not named by accident. It came from a protest regarding the doctrine of the original church, and the original Bible, and created the Protestant Bible, as well as other ideologies.
2006-08-11 16:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Earl G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually it the same bible, the 7 books was not actually added it was traditionally include all in the old Testament even in Jewish Tradition, They are included by the Fathers of the fathers (bibilcal scholar) on the old council of the church. they recognized it as essential part of the historical value on the God's people, which could learned thad God was still present during the times before Christ came. Further we can learn by these book on how they value & purse God's will.
2006-08-11 16:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by Arnel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church includes the books of the Apocrypha. These books were not considered canon by the Protestant church. The Apocrypha is additional books to the old testament. In the Protestant church's congress of canon it was decided that these books do not add value to the Bible. The Catholic church did not agree and chose to include the books in their edition of the Bible.
There are also many verses and stories added to the old testament in the Catholic Bible-particularly to Daniel and Ezra.
2006-08-11 16:02:20 · answer #6 · answered by Just-A-Bevy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Catholics have the apocrapha. These are things that were written but did not meet the criteria. Not all of these books' prophetic writings have been 100 percent accurate.
The caution should be read in Revelation. It says that anyone who adds one jot or tittle or takes away from the Bible is in danger of judgement.
There are many religions who claim to believe in Jesus who have added to what was written in the Bible.
2006-08-11 15:56:34 · answer #7 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics do have a different version because those 7 are not added - they are part of the bible. Protestant churches take those books out because they contradict your beliefs. Kind of makes you question why huh!
It's called St. James Bible.
2006-08-11 15:59:30 · answer #8 · answered by LNZ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Bible has a few extra books that other people do not feel are God-inspired. The Catholics, being the most traditional, keep it all. The book of Sirach, for instance, is very hard on women.
2006-08-11 15:53:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You're talking about the apocrypha. They are historical books but are not considered canon by most protestant religions. They were written in the time between the old testament and new testament. Apparently they are rejected by the protestants because there is no reference to them in the new testament and they are not believed to be the word of God. They are considered to be important historical documents, though, even by Protestants.
2006-08-11 15:54:30 · answer #10 · answered by Becca 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋