is there a difference as to the number of books in the catholic and the protestant bible?

Question

ive known that some books of the original catholic bible was deleted because they were found out to be unispired by God? if so, what are those books?

Answer 1

There are 7 books in all:-

Tobit,
Judith,
1 and 2 Maccabees,
Wisdom of Solomon,
Ecclesiasticus (or, Sirach),
and Baruch.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

The Protestants removed six books from the original 72 (Septuagint) to leave them with the 66 Books we know. Interesting that 6 is the number of man, and of imperfection.

Missing are Tobit, 1 and 2 Macabees, Sirach, Baruch, and Wisdom of Solomon.

Answer 4

Yes indeed. There is the difference, and not only between Catholic and Protestants' Bibles but other Bibles also exist; among the Eastern Orthodox etc. In all, they are stated to be 12 different versions, each held to be a Holy Version. The solution lies in agreeing upon a definition of 'Inspiration'. How do we judge whether a certain message is 'inspirational' ?

Answer 5

The extra books are all in the Old Testament, and are known as the Apocrypha. These books were included by political process early in the history of the Catholic church, but Protestants later removed them on theological grounds. These books include Tobit, Esther, Maccabees and Baruch.

Answer 6

Luther put them out because they support the Jewish and catholic custom of praying for the dead. They are inspired and protestants have tampered with the bible.

Protestants are no better than Muslims.

Answer 7

None of them was inspired by any god; it was all the political maneuvorings of constantine & others that give us the fake books of christianity.