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Theologically speaking...Which one is better give me source..and anything that i can read...

2007-06-18 16:55:44 · 7 answers · asked by a_perez317 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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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.

2007-06-18 17:04:08 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2 0

better for what? the 66 books of the bible was considered 'inspired' during the canonization of the scriptures, but they did not say that the 7 other earlier writings were false. they are still good reference materials and for background study. however, only the 66 books are considered the holy scriptures, the infallible word of God.

2007-06-18 17:10:02 · answer #2 · answered by DannyLua 2 · 0 0

there are seven books that arent inspired by God some of them give information that is right bu the point is that God is not the author, they don´t have any prophecies and are out of the principal issue of the bible "God´s kingdom"

By the way Jesus never quoted from that 7 books.

2007-06-18 17:02:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Protestants will say theirs is better and the Catholics will say theirs is better.

You get to choose

2007-06-18 17:00:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Catholic and there is more to it

2007-06-19 14:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 0 0

There is no "better" or "worse"...

Just DIFFERENT!
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2007-06-18 17:00:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

oh BIGGER is ALWAYS BETTER.
didnt you know that?

2007-06-18 17:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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