Catholics And Protestant!!!!WHOSE BIBLE IS IT ANYWAY????

Question

According to who made the bible (Theologically speaking) who created it...Who took out the books or added it and why?
Sources..SOURCES

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: which bible? you mean the Christian bible OT and NT why it's a Catholic book of course. This is a very touchy topic for many Protestants and even those non-Catholics which like to think they aren't Protestant Christians. They use terms like "bible believer" or "bible christian" or "bible church" but Catholics just go about their business already having trust and assurance in historical fact and apostolic authority that Catholics are members of a theological authority responsible for the development, preservation and distribution of the Christian bible.

addendum: someone claims Constantine had something to do with compiling the bible this is absolute nonsense they need to study the early Church councils at the time.
The second fallacy someone has stated is extra books in Catholic editions are commonly known as apocryphal. As Catholicism makes up more than half of all Christians in the world these books are not apocryphal. In addition to recognising this fact of who is in the majority Jesus and Apostles quoted more times from the OT Septuagint version Catholics OT scripture is based on.

you ask who removed/added books?

A Jew council closed the Jewish canon of scripture 60-80 years after the resurrection of Christ and separation of Christianity from Judaism at Jamnia

Luther removed books 1200 years after the Christian bible canon had been decided upon.

Answer 2

It's kind of odd, but Catholics have their own version of the bible as do Protestants and others. The LDS and Mormons have theirs while the JW's have theirs. They actually take parts of the bible and revise them to fit their religious beliefs except for the LDS and Mormons who use the Book of Mormon. As for which is the "true" bible, I have not a clue. There is also the Gnostic Bible which talks about the literal and figurative Bible and which I am beginning to think may be the actual true Bible. The King James Bible was revised by King James to suit him and his family. This is the main book most christians follow today. The Gideon has almost disappeared from churchs and homes. During the late 60's early 70's we had a book called the Way which told the Bibilical stories in laymans terms and many disliked it because it didn't use the traditional biblical jargon but used every day words instead to make it more understandable for people to read. But the Way has become hard to find unless you go to a used book store or sale. If you actually read the bible itself it speaks of some of the bible history in the front and back of the book. Or you can find the book of "who wrote the bible?" From what I understand the priests and Catholic Chruch Elders were the ones who removed some of the canons from the bible when it was being published so the lower classes wouldn't know what they did. They removed these canons to keep others from finding out that what they were preaching was false and would allow them to control the "flocks" and basically rip them off of their lands and monies. The Church was run for monetary reasons, to gain wealth from its members and grow. It's one the largest money making schemes in the world. I'm not against the church but I am against those who profit from their followers. Any way, it depends on who's bible your reading. If you are reading the protestant bible then it's the protestants and same with the Catholics. Each have their own version.

Answer 3

The Bible is the Word of God.

The Bible does not belong to either the Catholics or Protestants.

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 4

FAQ: What books are in the Word and what are apocrypha?




"The books of the Word are all those which have the internal sense; but those books which have not the internal sense, are not the Word. The books of the Word, in the Old Testament, are the five Books of Moses, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, the two Books of Samuel, the two Books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: and in the New Testament, the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; and the Apocalypse. The rest have not the internal sense" (Arcana Coelestia n. 10325 or Heavenly Doctrine n. 266).




FAQ: Why different testaments and books in the Word?

"As regards the Word particularly, it has existed in every age, though not the Word we possess at the present day. Another Word existed in the Most Ancient Church before the Flood, and yet another Word in the Ancient Church after the Flood. Then came the Word written through Moses and the Prophets in the Jewish Church, and finally the Word written through the Evangelists in the new Church. The reason why the Word has existed in every age is that by means of the Word there is a communication between heaven and earth, and also that the Word deals with goodness and truth, by which a person is enabled to live in eternal happiness. In the internal sense therefore the Lord alone is the subject, for all goodness and truth are derived from Him" (Arcana Coelestia n. 2895).

Answer 5

The Bible is simply a collection of writings or books. They were written by individuals such as Moses, David (in the Old Testament), Luke, and John (in the New Testament). Most are historical records or retellings of historical events, written down so as not to be forgotten. Some of the books are letters, some poems. The 66 books in the Bible were written by 40 different people; and the books are considered to be divinely inspired (part of why the Bible is considered "the word of God"). There are also several other books that are not included in the Bible.

Under the rule of Constantine I in Rome, the various books were canonized (a biblical canon is is a list of books considered authoritative as Scripture). Athanasius (known as the Father of Orthodoxy) wrote the first canon in 327 AD of the 27 books of the New Testament; it is still widely accepted by Christians today. Constantine put together the canon that was most agreed upon by the orthodox communities into one book; he financed fifty copies of the scriptures to be produced for use in Constantinople.

The reason that only these 27 books made it into the canon are because they were considered the most reliable, most accurate. The first 4 books of the New Testament (the Gospels) were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Of the 4, Matthew and John were the only two who actually knew Jesus (Matthew 4:21; 9:9); they were two of his apostles. Mark wrote the recollections of the apostle Simon Peter, and Luke was a close friend of the apostle Paul. The rest of the New Testament was written (mostly) by the other apostles (Paul, James, Simon Peter, etc.). These 27 books were included in the New Testament because they were written by people who were close to Jesus and their writtens were found to be historically accurate and reliable.

EDIT: yes, the Roman Catholic Bible has more books in it than the Protestant Bible. There are a set of books, commonly called the Apocrypha (the word means “hidden”), that was rejected by Martin Luther and now by Protestant churches. In all, there are fifteen books, eleven of which are accepted as canonical by the Roman Catholic church. But because four of the eleven are combined with Old Testament books, the Douay Version contains only seven additional books in its table of contents. Hence the 66 books verses the 73. Most Bibles printed today follow the canon of 66 books, but the other books can be found and read, if one is interested.

Answer 6

To answer "Hunter's" post:

The Catholic Church did not keep the Bible from people. There just weren't many Bibles because the printing press had not been invented..so most Bibles were hand written and there weren't many of them. So, the Churches had the Bibles. Additionally, most people could not read.

The burning of Bibles was the Protestant, heretical Bible, that was printed and distributed during the reformation. At that time, what Martin Luther was doing was a scandal. The printing press was new thing, and they were printing versions the Bible that were not approved by the Church...versions in which 7 books had been removed. This was heresy..so these Bibles were burned.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church compiled the bible. For over 1,500 years it had 73 books. Martin Luther came along and removed 7 books.

Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, stated about the Bible. In his "Commentary On St. John," he stated the following: "We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of God, that we have received It from them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of It at all." Regardless of what non-Catholic Christians may think or say, according to secular, objective historians, the Catholic Church alone preserved Sacred Scripture throughout the persecution of the Roman Empire and during the Dark Ages. All non-Catholic Christian denominations owe the existence of the Bible to the Catholic Church alone. Why did God choose the Catholic Church to preserve Scripture if It is not His Church?

Answer 8

The Bible existed long,long before there were Protestants. Catholic councils decided what is in the New Testament which even Protestants accept. When the Bible was first put together in one book in the 4th century,it was the Catholic/Orthodox Bible not the Protestant one which is minus the Deuterocanonicals.

Answer 9

I agree with the others who said that it was the Jews who wrote the books of the bible as God directed them, in both old and new testaments.
But throughout history there were many people writing many letters/books. Are they all trustworthy as God's word? Of course not. The difficulty is in determining which are in and which are out. I don't really trust the men who decided on the canon of scripture, but I trust God who said he would preserve His word. So I find it easy to trust that the books in the bible are true, and I also think we can learn a lot from other books too, just take them with a grain of salt.

Answer 10

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