Can anyone tell me what 2 books of the catholic bible are not in the King james version and WHY?

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.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Thank you for your good question. I am not an expert on the history of the different versions of the Bible, but here is my best crack on your questions.

There are more than 2 books in the Catholic Bible Versions that are not in the King James or in the New World Translation of The Holy Scriptures or in any Protestant version. These non Catholic Bible Versions have 66 books, while the Catholic Versions have 72 books. Catholic Bible versions include or have included Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition, Douay-Rheims Version, The New American Bible, Knox Version and possibly others that I do not know. Books in the Catholic Versions not found in other versions are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and First and Second Maccabees. While Catholic and non Catholic versions have Esther and Daniel, the Catholic versions have Esther 10: 16-24 and Daniel 3:24-90, Daniel 13:1-14:42 that are not found in the non-Catholic versions.

Why?

Part of the reason is “The Apocrypha.” Apocrypha today has come to mean writings or reports which are not considered Genuine. In her Council of Trent in 1546, the Roman Catholic Church declared eleven additional writings to be canonical. These additional writings have been challenged by others based on the reasoning of Luke 8:17. These writings are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom (of Solomon), Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, a supplement to Esther and three additions to Daniel: The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna and the Elders, and The Destruction of Bel and the Dragon.

The Catholics refer to these eleven writings as the second or later Canon or the big lingo ' deuterocanonical.' All other books are referred to as protocanonical, by Catholics.

Please note that Canonical refers to “Standard” and means “Correct and Authoritative,” or “Generally Accepted.”
Draw close to God and He will draw close to you.--
James 4:8

Answer 3

First, it's more than seven books. It would have been more books had Martin Luther gotten his way (he was not a fan of the Book of James - you know, contradicted his idea of "faith alone" thing). Anyway, the books of the Catholic Canon have been used since the 4th century. They were officially confirmed in the 16th century. If you go to the Greek translation of the Old Testament, you will find all of the same writings. It is in the Hebrew scriptures that you find variation - but know this too that the Greek scriptures are older. The Reformers, for various reasons decided not to include these books (although the first edition of King James Bible did include them). So, the reality is that the Catholic Church did not drop them, the Reformers did. That is the real question, why did they drop them and should that stand today?

The books left out in the Protestant Bible are: Tobias, Baruch, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), I & II Macabees. On top of that, there are parts of Daniel and Esther excluded.

Answer 4

The King James Bible is a corrupted translation. It's missing books and poor the wordchoice that was made when translating may lead people astray into the wicked chaos of Protestantism. Umm, yah, not blessing something isn't hypocritical at all. Do you even know what that word means? Edit: Push our own agenda??? We simply don't bless books that are not ours, we won't bless a Koran nor a copy of the Vedas, that isn't bad or hypocritical at all. People like you mutilate the meaning of tolerance beyond recognition. We are Catholics, we believe in the Canon of the Bible as laid out in the Council of Rome over a thousand years ago. It is the Christian holy book, and we bless it on request. Accepting others doesn't mean giving up what you believe. To finish, no, you don't know what hypocritical is at all. Hypocritical would be saying "we bless every holy book" and then not blessing your friends corrupted version of the Bible. But we make no such promise, we bless only the Catholic Bible and Catholic Sacramentals. Glad I could clear that up for you.

Answer 5

There are 7 books that are not in the king James version and most of the writings in these books line up with the rest of the Word of God but I don't think that they are needed. The original text is best left un-fooled around with.

An ex-Catholic Who went to Catholic school for 2 years.

Answer 6

There are more than just 2 books... the entire Apocrypha is not in the KJV... Because the KJV is used by Protestants not Catholics... Protestants don't believe the Apocrypha is part of the real Bible

Answer 7

The Apocryphyal books are not in the Protestant bible, for a few reasons. One being that the Lord Jesus never referred to them in His teachings. Protestant churches are based on the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles. Catholic churches extend their teachings to their traditions.

Answer 8

First of all there are seven books the heretics remved from holy scriptures and the reason they removed them is many of the text did not agree with their form of heresy Bob

Answer 9

The books in the protestant bible were deemed authentic by the church fathers who put the canon together. The books left out of the protestant bible were not deemed authentic. That's why.

Answer 10

there are more than 2 silly