Hi, has bible ever been changed by the catholic church? Are there any evidence about this on the web?

Answer 1

There have been many translations over the centuries but the original documents remain the same.

The Dead Sea Scrolls testify to the accuracy of the people who copied and recopied the Scriptures over the centuries. Despite minor errors, they show us that the Old Testament has not changed since it was compiled.

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

The difference in the Catholic and Protestant 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.

Answer 2

There was no "Bible" before the Catholic Church decided the canon. Before the canon was decided there were some slight differences between different Church fathers and other users, but the only big question that needed long time to be resolved, was whether the book of Revelation should be part of the bible canon or not.

The Old Testament canon of course comes from the Jewish Bible, but in the time of Jesus this existed in mainly two different versions, and slighty longer than the other. The longer one was commonly used by Jews in Palestine, and thus by Jesus and his apostles, and was so made the OT canon of the Catholic church. 1500 years later, Martin Luther suddenly decided this canon was not good enough for him, so he cut out some of the books from it (the so called apocryphs). He also wanted to cut some books from the NT (primarily the Epistle of James), but finally refrained.

The New Testament canon was finally decided in 367 AD, but only very small changes were made after the mid 2nd century. Contrary to last years Dan Brownian public opinion, no other gospels were ever considered canonical among the early christians. On the contrary, the early christians normally used no complete gospel at all, but a short fusion the four (later) canonical gospels. Apart from a big dispute about the book of Revelation, there were only some minor disagreements about a few of the NT epistles. After 400 AD there were no disunity about the Canon (until the Reformation ...).

The so called Apocryphal Books of the New Testament (The Gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, Judas, and so on, and also a lot of apocryphal epistles) were never ever considered canonical in the early church.

Answer 3

Yes, there are 26 books that are being held in the Vatican, 18 are given to be published, the book of Mary Magdalene, is one of them, they refuse to put it in, because a disciple could not be a women(so they say) there are new found books, talking about Jesus and Mary, which are not in the bible. I believe it was one of the Kings, maybe Alexander who put the book together, So I know there are things that are missing. Maybe key books that explain why any other group or religion is wrong, thus, it would take away the religion, of Catholic church. There is something wrong with the Catholic Church , to be able to withhold such information, and not put it with the people it belongs to. You can look up, Making of the Bible, and see some pretty good stuff there..the deeper you go...the scarier it is.

Answer 4

There were two cannons (lists) of Scripture in Jesus' time - the Greek and the Hebrew. The Greek list contained 7 books that were written in Greek. Because the jews did not like the Greeks or Christians, they threw out the Greek books. The Apostles taught from the Greek list and this was the list that was adopted by the catholic Church.

At the time of the Protestant Reformation, the reformers dropped the list that had been used by Christianity for over 1500 years and adopted the Hebrew list.

Answer 5

I don't think the Catholic Bible has changed, I have seen that they believe in what the Pope says about things and does.

One Change I seen that the Pope says it OK, is now they cane use Condoms , but only if one of the partners have Aids or deadly disease......

Answer 6

I have the Thompson chain Bible, and their is a place near the back of the book that says, certain parts of it was written by catholic leaders, or something like that, I was a little worried about that myself, but then I rememberd my heart, I was worried about the sabbath day being saturday and we observe it on Sunday. but I have read a few things thats eased my mind since.

Answer 7

Yes!


MUCH.
They teach ""Another Gospel"" !


See >>My Story< link below.
At the bottom of that page there is a follow up
""Bible Challenge For Catholics"" !

Answer 8

hmmmmmmmmmm im sure it has but when im not sure, and how to find it im not sure, the first biggie was constantine, just after he converted and he did it with a group of the upper muckity mucks of the church at the time, which were all catholic.

Answer 9

The bible has been changed so many times it is unbelieveable! However, the Quran has never been changed once.

Answer 10

Yes, they added the Books of Macabbee's and some other Books.