Correct me if I am wrong but the Bible originally came to all of us through the Catholic Church.
2006-10-15 13:07:02 · 20 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually Jim there are Protestant Bibles with the Apocrypha in them. We have more books that they chose to leave out.
2006-10-15 13:10:43 · update #1
The bible is the bible, The word of God is the word of God, no one can change it.
2006-10-15 13:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Christopher 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Bible is predominantly based upon the Latin Vulgate regardless of translation. Other modern translations are based off of much earlier texts, such as the Septuagint, and many other shorter texts.
Regardless, the slight variations in translation changes from Hebrew and Greek have little affect on the meaning or interpretation of the specific verses that are questioned and certainly there is no change in the overall teachings of the Bible.
Every version of the Bible clearly contains, the Law, the Prophets, the Gospel, and the Revelation.
In regards to additional books, Catholics and Protestants both consider the Apocrypha as separate from the rest of the Canon. The Catholic Church encourages the reading and studying of it though.
I am Lutheran - Missouri Synod.
2006-10-15 20:14:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes the Catholic Church did write the Bible, the KJV Bible most so called Christians use is " the " Catholic Bible in part. The Catholic Bible includes the so called lost books of the Bible.
The Bible also includes the Torah, the Babylonian Bible. In all of this the word of God can be found.
2006-10-15 20:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was Catholic many years ago the Catholic church did not allow us to have a Bible. It was not until around the late 40's early 50's that they allowed it. Not saying I'm right, but this could mean why they say "They have their own Bible." Also the Catholic Bible has some more books (or chapters) in it than the Protestant one does.
2006-10-15 20:18:25 · answer #4 · answered by Alien 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being Catholic at one time I think I can somewhat answer this question. Catholics and Baptists or anyother Religion...are different from each other as we all know. Catholics have their own Bible because they do have different beliefs than other Religions. I really can't go into detail and I'm sorry for that. Yes the Bible did come to us through the Catholic church so "they have their own Bible" I guess it goes more into depth than the other religions. I still love the Catholic Religion and still go to Mass, I volunteer at a private Catholic school and we go to Mass every Friday and sometimes Wednesdays.
2006-10-15 20:26:47 · answer #5 · answered by Angie M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually all the Bibles are the same It's just that some books in the Bible are called different names & some, like the Maccabees are included in a different part of the book.
The Apocrypha is included in the Catholic Bible but not given as much importance.
Some have additional writings. (Torah) & some are arranged completly differently (Koran)
2006-10-15 20:25:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was translated into the Coptic language in the 2nd century, and became the basis for the Orthodox Catholic Church. The Vulgate wasn't completed until 405, and King James had it re-written so that it would reflect Church of England theology rather than Roman Catholic, and that was just for a start. Historically, you can't point to any single source, there were a lot of cooks stirring that pot.
2006-10-15 21:05:27 · answer #7 · answered by rich k 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Debra, the Protestant Bible has less books than our Catholic Bible does.
Wisdom and Surach and I believe Maccabees are at least three books that our Catholic Bible has that the Protestants don't feel is actual scripture.
Our basis for the existence of Purgatory comes from a verse in Maccabees--that's why the Protestants don't believe in it, the King James version of the Bible doesn't have Maccabees.
2006-10-15 20:13:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think people say things like that as a way to discount Catholicism. Many people don't know the history of the development of the Christian church - heck, they don't even see Catholics as Christian. This lack of knowledge causes them to buy the prejudicial stuff against Catholics. Pointing out that your Bible is "different" is simply what they've heard, without the context of the history of the various Bibles (much of which has been covered by other answers on this post).
2006-10-15 20:26:57 · answer #9 · answered by Cracea 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually, it was the Church at Rome and all of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, which the Catholic church does not trump. Not any one is more original than the others...there were five churches in the beginning: Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Rome. The Bible, the creeds, the sacraments did not come from just the Catholic church.
2006-10-15 20:16:19 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no "apocrypha" in the Protestant Bible (King James Version and editions thereof)
The Catholics have a few more books (such as maccabees) that were left out of the later KJV. Their Bible is called "The Vulgate". It takes its name from the phrase "versio vulgata", i.e., "the translation made public".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Vulgate
Further, the rendition of the Ten Commandments in the Catholic Bible is unusual. They take out the 2nd commandment (concerning idolatry) and split the 10th commandment into two.
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/tencomma.htm
(someone email me if I'm getting this wrong, please).
2006-10-15 20:28:52 · answer #11 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋