what are the differences in the catholic bible and the Protestant bible?

Question

in the catholic bible does it say any thing about the "great whore" of revelations? What about the ten commandments?

Answer 1

+ Different Books +

Other than they were translated by different people at different tie, 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.

+ Ten Commandments +

There are actually three versions of the Ten Commandments, Jewish, Catholic (and Lutheran), and Protestant.

With the new revelations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the early Catholic Church, a slightly different emphasis was placed on different commandments.

Then 1500 years later, the Protestant in objecting to certain Catholic practices, once again changed the emphasis of the Ten Commandments.

+ Jewish Ten Commandments (before 1000 BC)

1. I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
2. You shall have no other gods but me.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
5. Honor you mother and father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Source: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Torah/Ten_Cmds/ten_cmds.html

+ Catholic (and Lutheran) Ten Commandments (about 100 AD)

1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it, you shall not do any work.
4. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.

Source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1ind.htm

+ Protestant Ten Commandments (about 1600 AD)

1. You shall have no other gods but me.
2. You shall not make unto you any graven images
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Honor your mother and father
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor

Source: http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm

+ Book of Revelation, Chapter 14 +

Here is a link to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible, so you can read it for yourself: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/revelation/revelation14.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Ten Commandments are the the same as the Apocalypse. The difference is in the Old Testament where the Catholic Bible has a few more books than the protestant one. Protestants call them Apocrypha and catholics Deuterocanonical books.
Actually the protestants follow the Jewish canon established long after Christ and the Apostles and the Church established the true one. Funny....

Answer 3

As best as I understand it.....The Catholic Bible was translated by Roman Catholic Church of Rome. The Protestant Bible translated under the direction of scribes commissioned by King James.

The Ten Commandments are found in both translations, as is the Book of Revelation.

Answer 4

The two bibles are nearly identical in the western Churches such as the Roman part of the Catholic Church and the Lutherans. The Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tend to favor slightly different texts for what is called the Eastern Textual tradition as opposed to the Western Textual tradition. Certain words tend to get translated certain ways or certain passages are ordered in slightly different ways depending on which ancient text you preference.

The official Catholic edition of the bible is available online at http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

It is notable that most Protestant denominations are now using the Roman Catholic cycle of readings, now called the Common lectionary. It is designed to read the entire bible in three years if you attend every Sunday or in two years if you attend daily.

Luther reduced the size of the bible because he disagreed with certain books called the deuterocanonicals. These include books like 1&2 Maccabees, 2 John, Revelations etc. He removed the books some Protestants now call the Apocrypha, James, Jude and Revelations. After the Catholic council of Trent, Lutherans restored James, Jude and Revelations. Luther did this because the books of the bible were authorized under papal authority alone, and he rejected papal authority, in the year 405. (you might also see the year 397 which is also true but the actual list is lost now). This followed regional synods at Hippo Regius, Rome, Carthage and I believe Laodicea (forgive spelling I didn't want to look it up). The Pope issued the list of books to be read in Church. He did not say this is the entirety of the truth, in fact one of the early reasons to prevent a bible from coming into existence was a fear that people would mistakingly look at the books that way. Still, the books Catholics now call the bible are the books to be read in the daily service and other books such as the Shepherd of Hermas, while important to understanding early Christianity, are not to be read. The Church chose the books of the Septuagint, the books the apostles used as their "old testament," which both Jesus and the apostle's quote from rather than the newer canon which was decided by the Jews after the apostle's death. The shorter canon was actually an attack on Christianity. God can't speak Greek so any book written by Jews in Greek must be false, he only speaks in Hebrew. That meant of course that the New Testament is totally false. As a side effect, the books Protestants now call the apocrypha got kicked out too.

Look at the online Catholic bible. The Church also prints them at cost and I think you can buy it at Amazon for $4 and for free at many Catholic Churches. One of the penalties for being Catholic is you tend to accumulate a lot of bibles in your lifetime.

If you really knew how to look you would notice mild differences between the Eastern and Western textual tradition but none at all between Roman Catholic and Protestant. It used to be Protestants had severly inferior bibles because the Catholics and Orthodox refused access to the most ancient texts. When the KJV was revised in 1890 20,000 changes were made that were significant. Many denominations reasons for existence winked out of existence because their supporting passages disappeared.

You still hear it in the carol "peace on Earth, goodwill toward men." That is not in the bible, it is "peace on Earth toward men of goodwill." One was in the Protestant bibles, the other was in the actual bible. It is a misunderstanding that Catholics were not allowed to read the bible since it is read daily in Church. What wasn't allowed was for Catholics to read bad copies or copies from untrustworthy sources.

Answer 5

The Catholic Bible and Protestant Bibles are pretty much the same but the Catholic Bible I have has a lot of footnotes trying to interpret the symbols the Catholic way. The KJV is void of these comments leaving interpretation up to the reader.

Swedenborg states "a perception of the sphere of falsity from evil that flows forth from hell has often been granted me. It was like a perpetual effort to destroy all that is good and true, combined with anger and a kind of fury at not being able to do so, especially an effort to annihilate and destroy the Divine of the Lord, and this because all good and truth are from Him. But out of heaven a sphere of truth and good was perceived, whereby the fury of the effort ascending from hell was restrained. The result of this was an equilibrium. This sphere from heaven was perceived to come from the Lord alone, although it appeared to come from the angels in heaven. It is from the Lord alone, and not from the angels, because every angel in heaven acknowledges that nothing of good and truth is from himself, but all is from the Lord" (Heaven and Hell n. 538).

Answer 6

unquestionably the unique King James version blanketed all seventy 3 stimulated books, basically as they have been defined as quickly as and consistently by utilising the bishops of the Catholic Church on the Council of Carthage in 397 advert. It replaced into the call of Martin Luther to get rid of 10 of the stimulated books from the Holy Bible - 3 New testomony books and seven old testomony books. luckily his followers does no longer hear of eliminating the writings of the Apostles themselves, and have been on the fringe of a insurrection over the situation. So Luther sponsored off and left the recent testomony intact, yet nonetheless bumped off the 7 old testomony texts. because of the fact of this the Protestant Bible is incomplete, having in hassle-free terms sixty six books fairly of the finished seventy 3. And if Luther had his way, Protestants could have in hassle-free terms sixty 3 books. The Catholic Church nonetheless makes use of the finished and finished Holy Bible, because it replaced into initially defined, and because it replaced into utilized by utilising each and every Christian in the international for a million,two hundred years between the time it replaced into compiled and the time Luther bumped off things he did no longer like. different than those 7 lacking books, the only ameliorations between the unique version and the Protestant version are some words Luther inserted into the textual content textile right here and there, in an attempt to assist a number of his new doctrines. for occasion, in places the place the textual content textile states that faith is needed for salvation (a real fact), Luther inserted the interest "by myself", in result rewriting the textual content textile to declare that "faith by myself" is needed for salvation (an untrue fact that at as quickly as contradicts different statements contained in the interest of God).

Answer 7

the bible is the bible
the difference between catholicism and protestantism is in
the interpretation of the bible.

both sects do a good job of making people feel guilty, unimportant, stupid and afraid. One thinks they are better than the other, but they both are overboard and try to keep things they way they were thousands of years ago when no one was allowed to use their own brains. It's all a power struggle.
Who are either of them to call anyone or anything a great whore?
Even though there were thousands in the day....
sorry for my rantings...... I hate organized religion

Answer 8

Rejoice has it right. A former Catholic who is a friend also told me(forgive my spelling) that Catholics also have a book called a Cannon? Cannonite?(can't remember for sure) which (as I understand it)is a condenced version of the bible that the church has approved. In her church there was no bibles just this cannon thing.

Forgive me Catholics if I have this wrong I only know what i was told.

Answer 9

The biggest difference is tne acceptance of the apocryphal books located between Malachi and Matthew. Protestant Bibles do not include those books. There are a few other differences in the translation of the Douay Bible and the King James Bible as well.

Answer 10

I'm not sure which books are not included in the other. All I know is that it is "Roman Catholic" if it has an Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat (I'm not so sure about the spellings) which means that they are approved by the Vatican and the Pope.