the Catholic Bible the book of Jerusalem, vs the Presbyterian bible....the many? witch one is correct?

Question

witch is correct? for give me if the catholic bible also has many different versons of their book. I do not know much about them. What is the difference? and which one do you perfer and think is correct?

the prist says they took books out of the bible, while the other churchs say they added stuff in.

Answer 1

Very good question. There were many different translations in Latin even in St. Jerome's time.

As you probably know, when words are translated, in many instances the original meanings of words are adapted/changed because there is no perfect fit for a specific word. An example, the German word "Geist" can mean "ghost," "spirit" or "mind."

And certain books of the Bible were included or excluded from the Bible based on when the books were written, such as the controversial book of Judas.

Biblical history and scholarship are very interesting topics which provide for much interesting reading.

Answer 2

The Jerusalem Bible is Not the Bible of choice for most Catholics. The version most widely used at Mass is the New American Bible (NAB). By Presbyterian bible I am assuming you are talking about the KJV or the NIV? The Catholic Bible has 73 books in it while the Protestant Bibles have only 66. Both versions have 27 books in the New Testament. The problem comes with the Old Testament. In the time of Christ the scriptures were what was called the Septuagint (LXX). When Christ and the Apostles quote the Old Testament, they quote the Greek Septuagint over 85% of the time. This was the version used by Christ and the Apostles. The Septuagint was translated around 200 BC and was the common "bible" for most of the Jews at that time. The Septuagint had 46 books in it. This was the version adapted by the Catholic Church, since Christ and the Apostles used it, the Church decided to use it. The Jews were mad that the Christians were using their scriptures to make converts so they retranslated the Old Testament back into Hebrew, the Christians keep on using the Greek Version. This is the same Old Testament that Catholics have in their bibles today. The Jews took all the books that were not wrote original in Hebrew out of their "Bible". So 7 books that Christ and the Apostles had used were thrown out. For 1500 years Christians had bibles that had all 46 books in their Old Testament. In the 1500s men began to follow their own desires and traditions of men and a man named Martin Luther took out 7 books the same 7 the Jews had taken out, other Protesters done the same. That is why Protestant bibles have 39 books in their bibles instead of the 73 that Christians had enjoyed for 1500 years up until the reformation. The Catholic council of Rome in 382, and the council of Hippo in 394 and the council of Carthage in 397 all decided on 27 books for the New Testament make the total number of books in the Bible 73. the councils of Florence 1431 and the council of Trent in 1545 reaffirmed the 73 books in the bible. The question should be by what Authority did Martin Luther and the rest of the "reformers" rip out 7 books that had been in the "bible" that Christ and the apostles used, and why is it that protestant will accept the authority of the Catholic Church when it says that there are 27 books in the New Testament but they will not accept the Churches Authority when it comes to the Old Testament? That's the million dollar question.

Answer 3

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

The Catholic bible doesn't have different versions. We always had 73 books as it was decreed many years ago by the Council of Trent. However, Luther in the 16th century took some books out like Baruch because he considered meaningless. This became the Protestant Bible with only 66 books. This is the Bible Protestants read, not the original one with 73 books. So I have to say stick with the original. The Catholic bible is better.

Answer 5

they did no longer upload books. The Protestants took a number of the books out of the Bible for the period of the Reformation. Daniel and Esther are additionally longer in the Catholic Bible because of the fact the Reformers got rid of aspects of those 2 books besides.

Answer 6

What is "correct" supposed to mean? If you are Roman Catholic, the RC version is correct. If you are Presbyterian, the Presbyterian version is correct. This isn't an either/or question. Different books are included based on different theological emphases.

Answer 7

there was one bible till the reformation, Martin Luther really wanted to take james and revelation out as well.

you can make your own judgement but how can people believe bible alone if one man changed it 1200 years after it was corrected

Answer 8

haha lol "witch" I love it lol