im not catholic but i was wondering if someone could help me out ...pm me ...or talk to me here if you think y

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im not catholic but i was wondering if someone could help me out ...pm me ...or talk to me here if you think you might be able too thx

k ...well i was talking to someone and im presbytarian and i thaught the king james bible was lacking a lot and this person says that the bible the pope uses is biased and im trying to argue that but i cant so i was wondering if someone could tell me that im right the popes bible isnt biased .. right ?

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

Biased in what way? This is the question you should ask this person should the subject come up again. Remember, it is the Catholic Church that formulated the original Bible; both Old and New Testaments. The Bible canon in use by the Catholic Church today is the same as it was in the second century. One the Scriptures were assembled and put together as the Bible, the Church has NEVER changed it.

In 1661, when the King James Version was originally released, this is a verson of the Bible that is decidedly different than the orignal canon used by the Catholic Church. I would say there is a much better chance of the KJV being "biased" because it was edited by mere individuals outside the influence of Divine Inspiration.

This person probably thinks the KJV does not justify the Catholic Papacy. Perhaps if he was reading from a bible with the full canon of 46 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books, this person's interpretation would be more accurate. Since this person is not reading from a full canon, their interpretation is unreliable.

Answer 3

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 at your questions.

There are 6 books and at least 7 additions within the common books (books common to the catholic and the other versions) 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.”

The Bible that I personally recommend is 'The New World translation of The Holy Scriptures.' It is an accurate modern-language translation of the Holy Scriptures. It has many references and hundreds of footnote references to the Septuagint and to other ancient manuscripts. The Septuagint is of great interest and value to Bible students in our day. Biblical history has it that about 72 Jewish scholars performed the first written translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew into Greek. This number was later rounded to 70 and thus the name 'Septuagint' which means 70. The Roman numeral designates the Septuagint as 70. By the end of the second century B.C.E., all books of the Hebrew Scriptures could be read in Greek and the name Septuagint came to refer to the entire Hebrew Scriptures translated into Greek.

Draw close to God and He will draw close to you.--
James 4:8

Answer 4

Hi there,

The KJV bible leaves out 7 whole books of the original version that has been passed down for 2 thousand years. When martin Luther was angry at the Catholic church`s corruption, rather than just expose it he tried to rewrite the bible in hopes of creating his own church. He was very successful...and very wrong. Try a douay-riehms bible or any Catholic Bible that is pre 1970 or The Catholic Bible put out by oxford university press also called the New American Bible personal study edition.

Answer 5

The KJV of the bible has 7 books removed from it per Martin Luther. The Catholic Bible the Douay Rheims has all the books of the bible. The books that have been removed from the KJV are all from the Old Testament

Answer 6

the bibles are pretty must the same except the Catholic bible has the seven additional books. they were shared with others, however they didn't want to know of them....

some of the psalms are numbered a little differently but other then that....the catholic bible has awesome footnotes and isn't as thee's and thous/ here's a comparission with a favorite verse....
King James James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

St joseph (aka Catholic) James 2:26 For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.


they both pretty much tell us you need to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.

here is a link to the books in question:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01601a.htm

Answer 7

The differences between the various versions of the bible are more cosmetic that substantive.

Some books are missing from the kjv but they are OT works of only minor significance.

The bible was put together under the auspices of the roman emperor Constantine, himself a life long worshiper of the roman sun God.

It has been passed down with only minor changes to the present day versions. People who claim the there are major differences between the versions available are fooling them selves. these comments are based on ignorance, not knowledge.

love and blessings Don

Answer 8

Sorry, but it is. The Catholic Bible is derived from flawed, early translations by people who were not sincere Christians.

Jerome compiled the Latin translation of the Bible called the Vulgate, from which all Catholic Bibles are derived. Jerome's greatest influence was Origen -- Schaff says, "His [Origen's] predilection for Plato (the pagan philosopher) led him into many grand and fascinating errors." There is also the mention of Gnostic influences in Origen's teachers.

Answer 9

i was raised Catholic and i have left the catholic church. I just call myself Christian. I read and follow the bible, and go to a bible base chruch. I know that Catholic have there own doctrin. They follow the bible and they do not. I know that the pope is the ruler of the Catholic faith, what he says goes. There is a catholic bible.

Answer 10

The pope probably has access to the original documents, hon, plus most popes are fluent in Italian, Latin, and Greek at least.