Do people know that the only books in the Catholic Bible not in the KJV?

Question

are 7 Old Testament Books? We are in complete agreement on the New Testament. The 7 books were rejected because of lack of Hebrew manuscrips by Jewish scribes. They were only in the Greek. However, I understand all the quotations in St.Matthews' gospel of Old Testament prophecies come from the Greek.
Where does anyone get the idea that the Catholic Church added books after the Protestant Reformation?

I was raised on the KJV and became a Catholic reading the KJV.

Answer 1

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

I easily have been waiting to work out what the responds may well be on your question. Many lame solutions. such because of the fact the single calling himself "God is my Salvation" There are books interior the KJV that have unknown authors. so some distance Doug has responded the question extra wisely. The books that are coated interior the Catholic Bible and not the Protestant are books that are interior the Greek Septuagint. those books are available interior the Greek language yet no longer got here upon interior the Hebrew/Aramaic language which may well be the unique language wherein they could have been written. That Catholic Church does see them as inspired notice of God however the Protestants do no longer. particular there are different Books obtainable that are no longer seen inspired notice of God and are not cannon to the Catholic Bible. for example the e book of Enoch, the Gospel of Thomas, and so on.

Answer 3

Also do people realize that the original KJV had all 73 inspired books? Only later were the 7 Old Testament books trashed, and if Luther had his way 3 New Testament books would have met with the same fate. Fortunately his followers wouldn't hear of trashing the writings of the Apostles themselves, so the New Testament remained intact.

Answer 4

In their ignorance.

The Protestant Bibles removed the the seven Deutero-Canonical books along with a few verses from the Book of Daniel.

As a Catholic, I hope you are now reading the :

Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

or

New American Bible

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Answer 5

You are correct. If fact some of the books that were lacking in the Hebrew language have since been found.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 6

Revelation 22:19

and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

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Answer 7

Ok but be careful, Pope loves teens especially.