What are the differences between Catholic and Lutheran scripture? Any online sources (besides Wikipedia)?

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.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

--Is Catholic--

If we are only looking at the original language copies of scripture, then there is no difference between Catholic and Lutheran bibles, save for the Lutheran scripture uses the Jewish Canon of 90 AD (Rabbinical Council of Jamnia) instead of the Hebrew AND Greek Septuagint that Christ and the Apostles used which is centuries older and contains books written only in Greek*** (check http://www.scripturecatholic.com under deuterocanonical and Septuagint to see all the verses that are pulled from the Greek not the Jewish Canon of 90 AD).

The differences come in when the original language versions are translated. When translations are done, many factors contribute to the words that are chooses to the sentence structure. Among these is the persons theological and philosophical background which can and does color the translations. If you have a strong theological and philosophical background you can pick this up especially on the passages that Catholics and Lutherans disagree on.

The biggest difference, however, is in the footnotes and commentary.

If you wish for on line sources, you are going to have to learn German. English Protestant translations of scripture tend to come down through the Anglican / English Calvinistic lineage and so are removed a bit from the Lutheran tendencies. So while multi bible search sites such as www.crosswalk.com are good for comparisons, I am not sure if they have a English Lutheran bible in their list.

***NOTE It should be noted that at the time of Christ, Christ and the Apostles used BOTH the Hebrew and the Greek scripture, but only the Greek was codified into a "canon". Amongst Jewish scholars of that period there was disagreement over what was scripture and what was not. The Sadducees accepted only the books of Moses while the Pharisees (from whom modern Judaism evolved) accepted the larger set of scriptures, but there was division over whether to include the Greek only books. The Greek books were much more widely read and accepted in the rural areas especially outside of Israel in the Greco-Roman lands.

Answer 3

Main Differences of Lutherans from Catholics

2 Sacraments instead of 7
A small dispute over the 9th and 10th commandments
Communion bread and wine doesn't become the body and blood till it enters the body
Doesn't Recognize the authority of the Pope
Priests are called pastors and are allowed to marry
Confession is done directly to God not through a priest
Don't ask for saints to pray for them (again Lutherans pray on their own accord)
Catholics added a few books to the Bible in response to the Reformation. Because Lutherans don't recognize the Catholic church's ability at the time to recognize what is divinely inspired, Lutherans do not include these books in their Bible.

Those are the most common and important ones that I can think of.

Answer 4

The biggest differences are in the apocrypha - a collection of writings that were supposedly written in the time between Malachi (the last book of the OT) and Matthew (the 1st book of the NT).

However, the apocrypha counts for some major doctrinal differences - Purgatory being the biggest.

This link has a table that shows the differences between Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Bibles:

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/religion/bible-books.htm

Also check out (question #3):

http://www.usccb.org/nab/faq.shtml

Answer 5

Catholic scripture has added several more books than Lutheran scripture. They have also altered some of their own translation such as with the 10 commandments.

Answer 6

the numerous distinction is Lutherans attempt to inform what The Catholic faith believes and the Catholic faith leaves the Lutherans on my own. i'm a Catholic convert from Lutheran. Lutherans might want to no longer I repeat no longer run round telling untruths about the Catholic faith. This website truly is bearing pretend witness adversarial to others in telling issues they comprehend no longer something about.

Answer 7

The Holy Bible is tried and found true. The Catholic Cannon adds some apocryphal books. Knowing they are faulty but thinking they can offer some spiritual help. Aprocryphal books have been proven faulty.

Answer 8

The True Christian Religion by Swedenborg compares Catholic and Protestant doctrinals and the errors with each.

Answer 9

Besides wikipedia?!?! Haf you lost your mind? Vee have ways of dealing vith the likes of you...

Heil Jimbo Wales!

Answer 10

one of the main differences i know of are in the ten commandments if you will look at it they have actually changed a few see if you can find out which ones and relate it to something in daniel ^_^ if you discover the same thing i have im sure you will be quite shocked