Are the Catholic bible and the Prodistent both inspired?

Answer 1

Yes.

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 keep the Catholic New Testament but 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

The books in the catholic Bible are inspired. Since the books in the Protestant Bible can be found int he Catholic Bible, they are also inspired.

The Catholic Old Testament are the books that were used by the early Christian leaders. To show their rejection of the Christian faith, the Jewish leaders discarded the books that were not originally written in Hebrew.

1500 years later, to show their rejection of the Catholic Church, the Protestant reformers adopted the Jewish list of books.

It is odd that the Deuterocanonical books (not Apocrypha) were considered "unreliable" or "non-inspired" over 1200 years from when they were first included in the Bible. Also, it is in one of those books, Maccabees, that the resurrection of the body is taught.

Answer 3

You would have a disagreement. Since the Catholic Bible contains the Protestant Bible, all would call this part inspired. There would be disagreement on the books in the Catholic Bible that aren't in the Protestant Bible.

Answer 4

The Catholic Church was the one that actually determined which books were inspired and which were not, then assembled them into what we knoe as the Bible.

During the Protestant reformation, the protestants REMOVED books from the Bible becasue they were too Catholic...therefore, denying themselves the fullness of the truth of scripture.

Answer 5

They are the same bible, the Protestants just took part of it out. And there is a spell check on that part of the questions, you know.

Answer 6

the Catholic church widely accepts many books of the Bible that were not considered reliable enough to be included in Scripture (these books are called "non-cannonical" writings). these works include the apocrypha, the book of enoch, and other fantastical Old Testament period and silent period (the four hundred years between malachi and matthew) writings.

the patristic fathers did not consider this writings to be worthy of the title inspired. however, they are a good, fictional read.

Answer 7

Neither is.