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catholics are christians. i think you mean catholic and protestant bible

2006-09-05 16:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by kitkat 6 · 1 0

The Catholic Church compiled the Bible at a Council, and the Bible only existed because those weird little Catholic monks in monasteries sat there year after year manually copying them over and over.

After Martin Luther (who, for you public school kidis, is not the same person as Martin Luther King) created the Protestant movement, the Protestants re-evaluated it, and concluded several books did not belong there.

So, the Protestant is the Catholic Bible with a couple books removed.

And, the Catholic Bible is based on the Jewish Old Testament with the Jesus stuff added in the New Testament.

Edit: The Catholics may as individuals choose not to use the Bible, and many neighborhood child molestors may discourage it, but there is indeed a Catholic Bible.

All translations of the Bible use wordings different from other versions.

2006-09-05 15:51:22 · answer #2 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 0 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.

2006-09-05 17:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2 0

The Catholic bible is used throughout Catholic services and in fact, except for the creed, the entire service is made up either directly of passages of scripture for the days readings, or quotations of scripture. None of it is made up by a minister and in fact all Catholic services are derived from the services left by Peter, James and Mark.

The Catholic bible differs in two ways. First, for the KJV, it is based upon poor 12th century texts discovered by Erasmus. It is a poor document and so every bible varies substantially from the KJV because it was based upon such a poor document. When it was revised in 1890, they removed 20,000 errors of substance. An example of this comes from the carol verse, "peace on Earth goodwill to men." In all other bibles, it will read "peace on Earth toward men of goodwill." I think the most recent KJV have fixed this.

Second, the Protestant bible has fewer books. The books of the bible were ultimately determined by Pope Innocent in the year 405, although Damasas could be credited in 397 but we have no copies of his list although it is supposed to be identical to Innocent's list. Luther was aware that in rejecting papal authority he was rejecting the only authorizing party for the bible.

In order to overcome this very valid issue, he decided to pick the books himself. He immediately accepted books called the protocanonicals such as Genesis, Exodus, Luke or 1 Corinthians. He rejected some of the deuterocanonicals, books like 1&2 Maccabees, James, Jude and Revelations. James, Jude and Revelations were out of the bible until the 17th century for many Protestants. Luther threw out the books he didn't agree with. He felt James, Jude and Revelations were horrid books and didn't deserve to be in the bible. The books Protestants now call the Apocrypha were kicked out because Luther didn't realize why the Jews removed them.

The Catholic Church says that whatever is part of the apostolic tradition things like beliefs, the bible, songs, art, services etc must be preserved. Only the apostles can create doctrine. Ministers don't get to do that. The apostles used the Septuagint so the Catholic Church uses the Septuagint as its Old Testament.

The Jews kicked out the parts written in Greek because God can't speak Greek. Anything written in Greek is false, like the New Testament. Luther didn't realize they were kicked out as an attack on Christianity.

2006-09-07 14:09:57 · answer #4 · answered by OPM 7 · 1 0

The Catholic Bible differs substantially from the King James Version in textual word phrasings.

2006-09-05 15:49:43 · answer #5 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 1 0

They are not the same. The Catholic Bible contains a few books the Protestant Bible does not, namely Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Baruch, First and Second Machabees, Sirach, and parts of Esther and Daniel.

2006-09-05 16:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Easy B 3 · 1 0

The version of the Bible the Catholics use is called the 'Douay' Bible, and it has more books in it than the Protestant ones do. It actually says the name 'Douay' on the Biible cover. It has the Book of Sirach and the Book of Maccabbees in it, for instance, that Protestant Bibles don't have.

2006-09-05 16:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0 0

Catholics do no longer study the Bible. They take out the aspects they like to commerce and touch it a catechism. so which you will no longer discover one. Sorry! now no longer attempting to offend every physique besides the indisputable fact that they do no longer look inspired to study the Bible. The written word of God for themselves.

2016-09-30 09:27:52 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The catholic bible contains some books that the Protestant bible doesn't.

2006-09-05 15:46:02 · answer #9 · answered by October 7 · 1 0

Saints. Catholics pray to saints. Catholics also believe the Pope speaks for God.

2006-09-05 15:57:55 · answer #10 · answered by Untitled 3 · 0 2

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