IS a baptist bible the same as a catholic bible?

Question

is it the same religion?

Answer 1

I think some of these answers will make you even more confused than you are right now.

Most Protestants (non Catholics) use a Bible that contains 66 books in what is called the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) and the New Testament.
The Catholic Bible contains additional books referred to as the Apocrypha.

Within the Protestant churches there are many different translations of the Bible because the Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic - the common language of the people in Palestine.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a Baptist Bible, a Presbyterian Bible or a Methodist Bible (to name a few denominations). All Protestant Christians use the same Bible and among Christians the translations may vary.

By the way the King James Version (KJV) has beautiful language but sometimes the English is difficult to understand since it was first published in the 17th century. Modern translations are easier to read and so much easier to understand.

Answer 2

No- Most Baptists use a Bible that has notations and doctrinal inclinations of Dr Schofield. The Catholic Bible has about 13 additional books the "protestant" Bibles do not have. Those extra books are called the Apocripha. (I think I spelled it wrong) I have read these and as far as deeper Christian study go are of little value to me, personally.
As for the same religion- No. There are major differences. I would recommend procuring a New King James or Revised Standard version and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the word to you. Read Matthew chapters 5,6,&7. Read everyday and soon you will be helping others find the truth. God Bless you.

Answer 3

Dear Dazed,

Let me just answer the first question.

Except for the apocryphal books the Protestant and Catholic Bibles are the same.

I have a copy of the Precise Parallel New Testament which contains 7 translations and the Greek. I can't read the Greek but I know that the 7 translations say pretty much the same thing.

By far and away the most important thing is to read the Bible because our heavenly Father wants us to know Him.

Answer 4

No they do no longer. A Catholic Bible is frequently exact as such, even however i'm no longer able to keep in mind what they say anymore. even however in case you open one, you will see further books besides the sixty six modern in 'primary' Bibles (39 old testomony, 27 New testomony). I had to apply a Catholic Bible in college for some faith training, because of the fact I went to a Catholic college. If the Baptists have a particular Bible those days, I easily have not heard of it. God bless you. †

Answer 5

Almost.

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 6

Baptists use the King James Version of the bible and Catholics use the NAB bible, which has 7 books that the KJV doesnt

Answer 7

Baptists don't use a "special" Bible. We use the KJV version. The Catholic Bible has added books to it, and no we are not the same religion, but we are both Christians.

Answer 8

Same religion, yes.
Same Bible, not quite. The Catholic Bible has a few extra books, and follows the Greek reading of a few Old Testament books (which include additional chapters not found in the Hebrew).

Answer 9

All Bibles are the same except for a few differances.

One is most Bibles take Gods personal name out of the Bible and replace it with Lord where it should be Jehovah as found in
Ps 83:18 or Ex 6:3-6

The translators will use upper case or lower case capitals in LORD to let the reader know that God's name should be there.
Lord is a title not a name.

You will notice where ever Jesus name is used there will be lower case capitals or just the L will be capitalized. But when you see LORD God all lower or upper case it should be rendered Jehovah God.

Go to your dictionary and start with the word Tetragrammeton and continue your research from there

Also Hell has been mistranslated from the Greek word hade's Hebrew word She'ol all which mean hole, pit, or grave of mankind and does not render any sort of torment or firey place of burning forever.

The hell fire doctrin was developed to scare mankind into not leaving a particular relgion.

Sincerely yours,

Fred M. Hunter

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Answer 10

the Catholic bible contains more books than the Baptist bible.

They are not the same religion.

and the Catholic bible didn't 'ADD' books to the bible, King James removed books from the original bible and called it the King James Version. Catholics use the same bible they have used for over a thousand years.