Why do Protestants accept the Catholic canon of the New testament but not of the old?

Answer 1

If you are talking about the Apocrypha, those writing were not accepted as canon by the church fathers..Furthermore, the catholic church accepted them..It was during the Council Of Trent they did this..The Apocrypha holds no truth..It's merely fairytales, and/or stories..
There's a good read in the wikipedia about the Council Of Trent..You should read it, and maybe that will answer your question..

Answer 2

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 3

I wasn't aware they did. There is Canonical differences in the New Testement as well. I thought Catholics had an extra book there are well. Also, the Lord's prayer is different with Luther having added some on the end. "for Thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen"

I don't think Jude or Titus appear in the Protestent texts, either - but I am old and don't have a bible in front of me.

Answer 4

Cus they have been led by utilising a blind. The canonized bible is the Latin Vulgate. It took the Catholic church approximately 4 hundred yrs to finalized it. a] The bible is made out of 40 six books of the previous testomony and the very source is the Septuagint, that's the authorized version even before Jesus' time and replaced into utilized by utilising Jesus. St Jerome translated it from Greek to Latin. b] The NT of 27 books replaced into accdgly called stimulated and translated by utilising St Jerome from Greek to Latin. c] There are approximately 3 councils that canonized the seventy 3 books: Council of Rome -383 advert,Carthage in 397, Hippo in 393. those canonized books have been then sanctioned by utilising the council of trent in 1545. there is not any reason in any respect by utilising any sensible person to apply different version or the different translation, until you violently protest the Catholic church. d] The temple of jerusalem replaced into annihilated in year 70AD by utilising the Romans; the rabbinical Jewish have been additionally persecuting the christians at that element and extremely jealous of the fast upward thrust of christianity. So, in addition they got here up with the think Jewish council of Jamnia in 90AD that cannonized the Jewish books to temper the hot Christian faith. The council is off beam VERY UNCHRISTIAN. The council consistent with se, is even questionable. some reported this is no longer a council yet basically a jewish discovering college. e] question: why could A protestant in his/her sensible attitude, undertake the sixty six Jewish books whilst it replaced into written in an exceedingly extremely antichristian way.

Answer 5

You seem confused. To begin with, the New Testament is hardly a "Catholic" document, and I'm assuming that you mean Roman Catholic. Secon dly, I don't know of a single protestant Christian denomination that does not accept the Old Testament as the Word of God.

Answer 6

The Catholic canon? Sorry, various people set up the New Testament canons prior to the Catholic church.

In fact, it can be shown that the New Testament books were gathered into one volume and were in circulation long before the Catholic Church claims to have taken its action in 390 at the council of Hippo. In the following we list some of the catalogues of the books of the Bible which are given by early Christian writers.

* 326. Athanasius, bishop at Alexandria, mentions all of the New Testament books.
* 315-386. Cyril, bishop at Jerusalem, gives a list of all New Testament books except Revelation.
* 270. Eusebius, bishop at Caesarea, called the Father of ecclesiastical history, gives an account of the persecution of Emperor Diocletian whose edict required that all churches be destroyed and the Scriptures burned. He lists all the books of the New Testament. He was commissioned by Constantine to have transcribed fifty copies of the Bible for use of the churches of Constantinople.
* 185-254. Origen, born at Alexandria, names all the books of both the Old and New Testaments.
* 165-220. Clement, of Alexandria, names all the books of the New Testament except Philemon, James, 2 Peter and 3 John. In addition we are told by Eusebius, who had the works of Clement, that he gave explanations and quotations from all the canonical books.
* 160-240. Turtullian, contemporary of Origen and Clement, mentions all the New Testament books except 2 Peter, James and 2 John.
* 135-200. Irenaeus, quoted from all New Testament books except Philemon, Jude, James and 3 John.
* 100-147. Justin Martyr, mentions the Gospels as being four in number and quotes from them and some of the epistles of Paul and Revelation.
* Besides the above, the early church fathers have handed down in their writings quotations from all the New Testament books so much so that it is said that the entire New Testament can be reproduced from their writings alone.

Answer 7

If you're speaking of the Catholic Bible, there are things that were added later which are not accepted as truth today among Protestants.

Answer 8

Martin Luther was viciously anti-semitic and wouldn't allow "JEWS DOCTRINE" into his Judeao sub cult

Answer 9

because Catholics are always right. lol.

i believe that the protestant religion and catholic religion are very close in most respects, but differ slightly. im catholic but idk much abt protestants. so im not positive

Answer 10

I dont know the answer to you'r question but im just copying and pasting this to a lot of people to get more points !