Which books do Catholic bibles have that Protestant bibles don't?

Question

I'm a Protestant. Am I missing out on anything good in the Catholic bible? Are there any good stories with morals to them that I ought to know?

Answer 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 books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

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

From http://www.twopaths.com/faq_bibles.htm :

The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches continue to base their Old Testament on the Septuagint. The result is that these versions of the the Bible have more Old Testament books than Protestant versions. Catholic Old Testaments include 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Baruch, Tobit, Judith, The Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), additions to Esther, and Susanna and Bel and the Dragon which are included in Daniel. Orthodox Old Testaments include these plus 1st and 2nd Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151 and 3rd Maccabees.

Answer 3

"The primary difference between the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible is to be found in the Old Testament. There are seven books found in the Catholic Old Testament that are not part of the Protestant Old Testament. They are:

TOBIT, JUDITH, 1ST BOOK OF MACCABEES, 2ND BOOK OF MACCABEES, THE BOOK OF WISDOM, ECCLESIASTICUS, THE BOOK OF BARUCH and additional parts of THE BOOK OF DANIEL, and additional parts of the BOOK OF ESTHER...

Those seven books and the additional segments of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Esther, that the Catholic Old Testament has, were removed from the Old Testament by Jewish rabbis that held a synod in 100 A.D. . The Catholic Church did not go along with their decision and kept those 7 books and segments of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Esther as part of the Old Testament. When the Protestant reformers established their own version of the Bible centuries later, they adhered to the Old Testament which had been established by that Synod of Jewish rabbis in 100 A.D., and Martin Luther did not regard the 7 books and the other parts of Daniel and Esther as Scripture but as "useful and good for reading"."

Answer 4

Giving answer from the Bible in a native not English language, so there may be spelling errors. The books are eight, all of them are very good to read:
Tubiah; Judea; Song of Solomon; Wisdom(Hikmat in Arabic); Barouk; Maccabean 1 and 2; Yashou son of Sirakh
With a little effort you may find the names of books in English. I do not have Catholic Bible in English. In native language, I have both the Bibles, which were compared.

Answer 5

Some Protestant Bibles carry them also. It is called the Apocrapha. There are some good stories, but that is it, they are stories. They were never considered by the Jews and later by the Christians to be authoritative, to be the Word of God. Sure, read them, but they are extra and even the Catholic Church admits to that, that they do not bear the same authority as the primary 66 books.

Answer 6

"did Protestant get rid of books from the bible or catholics extra them?" Protestants with none authority from Christ are turning out to be rid of 7 books of the Bible from the old testomony. those books are referred to as the Deuterocanonical books. "whether it replaced into extra or bumped off, didnt protestants stored the single that replaced into divenely stimulated and non-apocryphal?" No! "doesnt it make extra experience to maintain the main precise and in basic terms the divinely stimulated scripture?" of direction, tell it to the Protestants. "why Catholics desperate to function the extra 15 books which tremendously lots make Catholicism and protestanism diverse in some ideals and doctrines that catholicism has." The Church is the authority that canonized the Christian Scriptures 1750 years formerly the Protestants bumped off 7 entire books from the old testomony. as a techniques because of the fact the version in doctrines the Bible explains it like this...It says that the time will come while some will no longer have the skill to undergo the sound doctrine of the Church and could look for out fake instructors that fulfill their itching ears. it truly is the prophecy of the Protestant revolt of the Church. God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph

Answer 7

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes seven such books (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch), as well as some passages in Esther and Daniel

Answer 8

the reason that the apocrapha was left out of the KJV1610 is that it has many discepancies with the Bible. the only thing you are missing out on is delusion

Answer 9

The Books of Tobit and Wisdom are included. As well as others that I cannot recall.

Answer 10

having been a cath. myself, probably all you need is in the king james version bible.

i only know them in spanish

tobias, judit, baruc, sabiduria (wisdom), siracides.