does the word "protestant" or "catholic" appear in the bible?

Question

if so, give me the scripture

P.S what are the differences between the catholic bible and the protestant bible

Answer 1

One word answer - NO.

Answer 2

No, the words Protestant and Catholic do not appear in the bible. The name Catholic comes from the word meaning "universal". So, the name of the Roman Catholic Church is also called the Roman Universal Church, because the Church is for all people.

The name Protestant comes from the word "protest". It refers to the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s where a break from the Universal Church occurred, protesting Her authority.

The most commonly known difference between the Catholic bible and the Protestant bible is that the Catholic bible has 7 more books in the Old Testament than the Protestant bible. These books are Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Song of Songs, Wisdom, and Sirach. You have probably heard that the reason for these additional books is because the Catholic Church added them in order to "invent" and/or "support" man-made teachings. This is totally incorrect.

300 years before Christ, the original Hebrew Old Testament bible was translated into Greek, known as the Septuagint. It contained all of the books of the OT that we have today, including the 7 books in question. When Jesus arrived, He and the apostles He would later call would have learned - He and them all being Jewish - from the Greek Septuagint OT. Later, when the Church canonized the bible around 400 AD, they kept the original OT along with the newly approved New Testament that we have today.

So then, why do the Protestants not have those 7?

Around the year 90AD, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the Jewish leaders held a council at Jamnia. Here, they approved a Old Testament canon, removing the 7 books, partly to discredit Christianity.

When the Protestant Reformation arrived in the 1500s, the Protestant leaders threw out the original OT that Jesus and the apostles learned from and that was canonized by the Church, and adopted the new Jewish canon of 90AD. This is why Protestants have 7 less books than the Catholics in their bible.

God bless, and take care.

Answer 3

Protestant was a term that came around 1520 when Martin Luther disputed some Catholic church practices and eventually separated from the Church. Catholic is Latin for universal, I'm not sure that it is used in the Bible referring to the Church.

Within a hundred years of Jerusalem being destroyed, a rabbinic council took place where the Jews only accepted scripture that was in Hebrew. The Catholic Church a few years after Constanine adopt Chrisitanty as the religion of the Roman empire set their Bible. The Old Testament Scripture they took was from the Greek translation called the Septapguet. When Luther was putting together his new church he chose the Hebrew version to use for his Old Testament. The difference is the Catholic Bible has 7 more books and several stories added to a couple of others. Some of the translation into English from the 2 gives a little bit of difference in places but generally other than the missing Greek sections their Bibles are the same

Answer 4

Neither appear in Scripture, neither in the original Aramaic and Demotic, nor in any translation thereof.

These are man-made terms whose meanings have changed over time. Originally, Catholic meant universal (ie, the plan of salvation is for all mankind), and came to denote the Western Church after the Great Schism, and more precisely the Roman Catholic Church after the Reformation, during which time the term Protestant was coined as in "one who protests."

There is no difference in the Christian Scriptures (ie, New Testament) in a Catholic or Protestant Bible. The differences are only in the Deuterocanonicals, which were books originally included in the Canon (the collection of sacred Scriptures before they were called the Bible), and were subsequently removed in the 18th century by British theologians. It was not that Catholics added them (indeed, the Protestant KJV in the 1600s originally included them), but that some Protestant theologians began to remove them, and the rest followed suit.

Answer 5

No, neither 'Protestant' or 'Catholic' are found in the Bible.

+ Catholic +

The Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD (about 10 years after the last book of the New Testament was written), when the term appears in the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans:

"Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-smyrnaeans-hoole.html

We do not know how long they had been using the term "Catholic" before it was included in this letter.

All of this was long before the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed from 325 A.D. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

+ The Septuagint +

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

Neither term is in the Bible. The major differences between the two Bibles are the result of the Council of Trent (Catholic) that said certain books must be included in the canon like Maccabees, Tobit, etc. These books are basically history and contain little if any theology not found in the Protestant texts.

Answer 7

Protestants and Catholics are groups who have chosen to fight over how the Bible wil be interpreted, and how the community of faith is formed and ministers. These words do not appear in the Bible. The Catholic Bible includes some apocryphal books which are generally excluded from protestant Bibles.

Answer 8

The word "catholic" meaning "universal" was not used until the 3rd or 4th century when the Church was consolidated with Pagan religions to make the 'new church' and bring all religions under ONE ruler, Constantine. THIS IS WHERE THE Pope gets his Title of "Pontifex Maximus" (or PONTIFF, orginally one of Ceasar's titles as Ceasar was thought to be High Priest to all the God's) meaning "Bridge Builder" with bringing in the Pagan worshippers of other religions and incorporating such holidays as Halloween, Christmas (aka Saturnalia, aka the worship of Semiramis and the Child), Aestarte (Easter), etc.

The word Protestant wasn't really used much until Martin Luther broke away from the Church and started the Protestant Reformation (get it, "protest"ant).

The Catholic Bible contains a few "extra" books, such as the Book of Macabbees (stories that speak of the time between when the Jews returned from exile in Babylon and to the time of Christ's birth). The rule of the Macabbean Kings, it is known as. Its important, because before this, all kings were of the line of David, and after returning to Jerusalem the Macabee's take the Throne for a few hundred years before they are destroyed.

Remember, the Catholics ARE the ones who first put the Bible together in ONE BOOK. Before that, it was just the Torah (first 5 books by Moses) and a bunch of Scrolls.

Answer 9

The Catholic Church accepted 73 books as inspired by 397 a.d. then Luther (started the protestants) around 1517 a.d. took out 7 books in the Old Testament. Therefore, Protestant Bibles only have 66 books. God Bless.

Answer 10

No. The names of these groups were invented to distinguish those who hold to a certain set of beliefs and interpret the Bible in a certain way.

"Catholic" means "according to the whole" or "universal" referring to the church. "Protestant" came from the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther who protested several Catholic practices and beliefs he thought were corrupt and evil.

The Catholic Bible includes the Apocrypha, seven additional books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees). There is no "protestant" Bible. English speaking Protestants use widely accepted versions of the Bible (KJV, NASB, NIV, ESV and so on)

"I will grant you that the Catholic Church shares a large number of Biblical beliefs with evangelical Christianity: the inerrancy of the Bible, the Trinitarian nature of God, the virgin birth and deity of Jesus Christ, as well as His crucifixion and resurrection. In fact, we have no doubt that there are a number of born-again Christians within the Catholic Church. These Christians properly understand the biblical doctrine of salvation, and have developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. However, many of the official doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church are either un-Biblical or extra-Biblical. In fact, the Catholics use a different Bible than Protestants. Their Bible has more books within it, which accounts for some of the differences in Catholic doctrines. Furthermore, the Catholic Church has traditionally held that salvation can be attained only through observance of their sacraments. Therefore, they have set themselves apart as the only true church, and we must contend for the faith.

You ask, “Many different denominations share different interpretations of scripture. So aren’t you just splitting hairs here?” The answer is “no”, and here’s why. The differences here are not based on whether one should be baptized by immersion or by sprinkling, and they are more important than whether there will be a pre-tribulation rapture or a post-tribulation rapture. The differences here have to do with the most fundamental and foundational Christian doctrine – salvation. Within Catholicism, the definitions related to salvation are different, and salvation is based on works. Because of this, Catholics do not believe that anyone can be assured of their salvation. This is incredibly sad and distressing!!"

Answer 11

No, divisions in Christianity came much later than the Bible. In fact, Protestants are called so because the 'protested' the church of England in the 1400s or 1500s (the exact dates escape me).