the Catholic Bible has seven (7) more books than the Protestant Bible?
2007-02-02 23:33:26 · 14 answers · asked by Jessi 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do these two Bibles have different versions of the same books?
2007-02-02 23:33:46 · update #1
Why are there so many mistakes and errors are from the very first verse right up to the very last verse?
2007-02-02 23:34:04 · update #2
Actually the Catholic and Protestant Bibles are the same.
There ARE 'missing' books though. Enoch, Judas etc. They are in print but difficult to obtain!
They were taken out over the years by various papal orders. This is one reason why the Vatican gets so many conspiracy theories surrounding it!
BUT that said the 'gist' of the Bible remains the same with or without these books.
What errors do you mean?
There are different 'translations' of Bibles. ie. the King James is very wordy, whereas the Message translation is in ultra modern language. These are not errors. Just different translations, so that more people can understand them.
2007-02-02 23:44:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually prior to the Christianity becoming a religion all the ancient texts were considered sacred and inspired. The Jews decided to make an official collection of what they considered sacred in an effort to make sure there was no misunderstanding about what they believed vs what Christian's believed. They dropped 7 of the books (all old testament) mostly because they did support the Christian claim that Jesus is the Savior.
After that all Christians (all were Catholic at that time) used the same Bible with the "additional" 7 books. When Martin Luther came along and brought about the reformation he decided to follow the Jews and use their old testament.
The Catholic Church is the one who selected the inspired and sacred texts for the New Testament and all Protestant faiths continue to use it to this day. The Protestants use the Old Testament that the Jews removed 7 books from. As I said, prior to the offical naming of Christianity...all Jews and Christians used the same Old Testament that Catholics use today.
2007-02-03 07:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible (EVERY book entitled 'The Holy Bible'), is NOT an original book! It's just a collections of very ancient events, re-written and put together by many different PEOPLE in many different ages; so, in the end, the 'compiled' Bible ended up being just an erroneous, inaccurate book in which the original true story (told thousands of years earlier by the Sumerians) became just a confused patch-work full of contraddictions;)
2007-02-03 07:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The seven books you called are called the "apocryphal books". The protestant bible have not confirmed that these books actually happened and they might be just fictional stories.
Though there is not difference in every version of the bible as long as the message remains the same.
2007-02-03 07:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by Simon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 7 books that are known as the Apochrypha.
Basically, they are history books.
The Catholic church says they should be part of the Bible.
Most everybody else says NOT!
There is nothing wrong with those 7 books, but 'nothing wrong' doesn't mean they should be incorporated in the Bible.
Each Bible book has certain characteristics, identifying it as meeting the criteria for inclusion in the bible.
Those 7 history books don't meet the criteria.
The Catholic church chooses to ignore that fact.
2007-02-03 07:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was translated into many languages with many translators but kept basic meanings. The Bible is a map to a just, good, and better life than oblivion, all the rules are there right down to the food we should eat to make us healthy. Someone left these things for us to survive and multiply so we may have a future, not argue and fight and question. If you want to question then question how to cure cancer then do it!
2007-02-03 07:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by Conrey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. The Bible is intended to provide man God's roadmap for a healthy spiritual life which will lead them to salvation. There is nothing wrong with the Word - in today's multi-communication world (Twitter, Internet, etc.) it is very easy to throw out opinions and customs. The fact is simple - learn to bend your knees and communicate with Jesus. Once you establish that relationship, everything else that needs to be clarify, will be clarify. Note that I stated 'needs to be clarify'. Don't get wrapped up in trivial propaganda - the color of Jesus hair/skin, His actual birthdate, how the Red Sea was parted - nice to know trivia but not required to understand the Bible. Hope this helps a little and God bless everyone.
2014-10-29 08:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by juan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. The catholics decided at the 'council of Trent' in about 1660 to add books to their Bible. No one else did-the canon was closed in 325.
2. Because the catholics changed theirs.
3. There are no errors in the 'canonical' Bible. There are debates over variant spellings, but no errors.
2007-02-03 07:41:02 · answer #8 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and there are more other books that aren't part of the Bible! It makes you wonder what they're trying to hide from people!
2007-02-03 08:08:33 · answer #9 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the protestants hate the catholics and i guess some things are changed when you translate things like i heard in japan kfc is called crispy fried chicken cause they dont know what kentucky is and the same with lucifer thats a mistranslation the original name for satan is samael not lucifer but their meaning is the same
2007-02-03 08:59:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋