catholic and protestants ???

Question

In the Christianity we have on one hand, the Catholics who believe that the Bible is a set of 72 of the books. On the other hand we have the Protestants who believe that the Bible is together 66 books. The Protestants think that 7 books in more in which believe the Catholics are not of divine origin.

For me it is a proof of forgery of the Bible. what's your mind ?

forgery = falsification

Answer 1

A slight difference in opinion.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: you seem extremely young and naive.
Protestants use a Catholic New Testament canon and therefore whether they admit is or not have already accepted Roman Catholic authority in accepting half of their bible from the Roman Catholic Church. Now as far as 66 verse 72 books the difference has to do only with books of the OT. The truth of it is Luther took books out of the Christian bible. The excuse modern-day Protestants use is they are merely following the Jews who use the same OT canon as Luther thought we should. This is altogether misleading simply because not all followers of Judaism use the same canon. Ethiopian Jews and other distant communities use a canon of OT scripture similar to the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox which would be greater than 66 books.

Frankly brother you need a history lesson so as to better understand your 66 book Christian bible isn't a complete version and what you do accept is already based on Catholic Church authority.

Stop knocking the Catholics with slander that's a sin.

Answer 3

The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.

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 of 46 books, 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. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

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 4

If someone tore out several paragraphs of the Constitution of the United States and lived by only that which was left, how would that indicate "forgery"?? The History of the Bible is extremely well documented. The Canon of Scripture was finalized once and for all time by the bishops of the Catholic Church at the Council of Carthage in 397 AD. That Canon included 73 inspired books. Every Bible on earth for the next 1,200 years included exactly those 73 books, without a word changed at any time. In the 16th Century, one renegade Catholic priest tore out 7 books which did not support his novel doctrinal ideas, and fully intended to trash 3 New Testament books as well. Only the threat of outright rebellion by his followers saved the New Testament from being ravaged by this same man. How any of this activity by one man with no authority suggests "forgery" is beyond me? What are you talking about? The true and original Bible, just as it was originally compiled, exists today unchanged, is used by over a billion Christians, and will exist until the end of time. The tragic results of the rebellion spawned by that one man however, and the manmade tradition that developed from it, is evident everywhere - thousands of unauthorized manmade denominations, conflicting and contradicting one another on every point of Christian belief, yet each claiming that its beliefs come straight from one and the same collection of Jewish and Catholic writings.
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Answer 5

Not so.

The Hebrew Canon, the Hebrew Tanakh

The Hebrew Canon is consistent with the the Protestant O.T.
The Church accepted that, together with the New Testament, as forming the Canon of Christian Scriptures.

However, there also was the Septuagint (Green) version of the Old Testament. It included certain verses, chapters, and books of Jewish "history" which were not part of the Canon of the Hebrew Tanakh.

For centuries the Church accepted the Hebrew Canon; but the Council of Trent (Roman Catholic) decided to base their Scripture on the Canon of the Septuagint.

So NOT a matter of "forgery"; just a matter of difference of opinion as to which should be considered Canonical.

Answer 6

I'm Protestant and work beside Catholics everyday, we don't talk about religion in depth. I'd be willing to except the idea that the bible isn't complete, probably like to see the other books. But I don't think its a point to argue.

Answer 7

The main dif between Catholics and Protestants is this: Protestants believe the Bible is infallible. Catholics believe the church (and as head of the church, the pope) is infallible. The Catholics originally decided which books went into the Bible.

Answer 8

Forgery yes I believe the 7 added books are forgery, but us protestants, and those Catholics know whom we both worship God. The Catholics loves God just as much as I do, and
I do respect the Catholic church with all my heart. We are the off springs from the Catholic church. The Catholic church to protestants is like our older brother, especially the Greek Catholic church.

Answer 9

I disagree with this statement.....we do not have the right to decide which books go into any Bible of anykind....so to say one book should have this number or another book should have this many is wrong.....they are what they are....this is the same as saying evolution is true....its all based on what you believe in....this is the same dilema the writers had when they translated each and every verse and scripture they went through....

Answer 10

How does that demonstrate forgery? Do you even know what the word 'forgery' means? Why don't you look it up in a dictionary and then ask your question again. I honestly have no idea what kind of point you are trying to prove.

Answer 11

the reason why the other books are not accepted by any other religion is that the origin of those extra books have never been proven to be original and they are not accepted by the jewish community.