what is the difference between the catholic bible and the bible of non catholic?

Answer 1

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 2

the catholic bible has 73 books

non catholics 66

the protestants deleted the seven books found in the old testament, both new testaments are the same with 27 books.
the differences and reasoning for this varies naturally from what side you are looking at it from, as a roman catholic here are some sites for the catholic position.

www.askmeaboutgod.org
http://www.catholiceducation.org/links/search.cgi?query=the+bible

try also www.scripturecatholic.com
www.ewtn.com
www.newadvent.org
www.fisheaters.com

i would like to add that martin luther the early reformer wanted to delete the book of hebrews and revelations. secondly the protestant bible has shortened versions of daniel adn esther. luther also added the word "alone" in his german translation. when asked why, to paraphrase "because i can".

suggested reading
"rebuilding a lost faith" by john l stoddard.

luther said, "i hate esther and 2 maccabees so much that i wish they did not exist;they contain too much judaism with and no little heathen vice." f.f bruce commented "it is noteworthy that he shows his private judgement here by including esther (as undisputed canonical book) under the same condemnation as 2 maccabees...." (the canon of scripture, 101).

Answer 3

The catholic bible has many different books in it than the regular Holy Bible.

Answer 4

About a dozen or so books --called the "Apocrypha"-- written by minor prophets are excluded from the Jewish and Protestant bibles [Old Testament] deemed spurious and unnecessary for canonical laws, however they are found in the Catholic bible versions.

Among the Apocryphal books are Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Baruch, Maccabees, etc.

Peace be with you!

Answer 5

Catholic books are not bibles. They're political texts.

Answer 6

The grape juice stains on the cover...