Do Presbyterians Use The Same Bible As Catholics?

Question

I m curious to know if Presbyterians Use The Same Bible As Catholics?

Answer 1

Essentially, yes. Unlike Roman Catholics, Presbyterians and other mainline Protestants do not use the books of the Apocrypha. Also, the names of the books in the Old Testament are somewhat different, but it's generally the same Bible.

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Answer 2

When the Presbyterians do not use the '7' books considering them as Apocrypha, it means their Bible is different. Catholics do not use the King James Version; instead they have own Editions like the 'Jerusalem Bible' in English language. In a country like Pakistan, they circulate two Urdu Bibles, separately by the Catholic and Protestant Cathederal. The Presbyterians go to Protestant Church when their own is not nearby.

Answer 3

There are different versions of the Bible, such as:
King James Version
American Standard Version
World English Bible
Basic Bible in English
and more...

Presbyterians and Catholics uses the same bible. The difference is on how they interpret it.

Answer 4

The Catholic Church decided what books were to be in the Bible. In the 1500's during the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther removed certain books from the Old Testament because he did not believe in their teachings, such as prayers for the dead. Luther also referred to the Epistle of James in the NT as the "Epistle of Straw". He wanted to throw it out too. What is interesting is that there was not a completed Bible for at least the first 300 years of the early church. That sort of squashes the "Bible only" doctrine doesn't it? To answer your question, there are 73 books (72 when certain books are combined) in the complete Holy Bible recognized by Catholics, Anglicans and some other denominations. The incomplete Protestant Bible contains 66 books.

Answer 5

No.

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

No.
Catholics have their own special version.
Presbyterians might use anything from a King James to an NIV.
The Catholic Version is unique to Catholicism.

Answer 7

People of all dnominations use a variety of translations.
So thge answer is yes....and no. Not all Presbyterians use the same translattion. BUT it is all the same message (Just phrased slightly differently)

Answer 8

The bible is meant to be "the one true word of god". There cannot be more than one, surely? Unless, of course, someone's made a mistake over the last 1500 years.

Answer 9

No.
But see the guy above...