Why does the Catholic Bible contain 73 books while the Protestant Bible has only 66? With both claiming?

Question

to have the complete Word of God, which one should be believed and why?

Answer 1

neither should be believed. You should seek the truth for yourself.

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

What’s the difference between a “Catholic Bible” and a “Protestant Bible”?
Catholic and Protestant Bibles both include 27 books in the New Testament. Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Catholic Bibles also include sections in the Books of Esther and Daniel which are not found in Protestant Bibles. These books are called the deuterocanonical books. The Catholic Church considers these books to be inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Because the Protties REMOVED seven books of the Bible!

The Catholic Church chose the books of the Bible for the Old Testament based on what was used by the used as scripture at the time of Christ.

By the end of the 1st century, the Jews had removed the 7 books in question because they were 'too Christian'...they supported the teaching of Christ and contained prophesy about Him.

The Protties took them out because they were "too Catholic."

Which version makes mnore sense to use? The one is existence when Christ walked the earth...or the abridged version?

Answer 5

Protestants have 39; Catholics have 46 books prior to the birth of Christ to Josephand Mary.
I was raised in a 'Protestant sect; but I now believe the Catholic arrangement.
Why? The 'tiebreaker' vote for me was the Dead Sea Scrolls; written before the 'Catholic church'; but they include the 7 books that are the difference between them.
I might add (someone correct me if I am wrong); but 1 Macabees 4 sounds like Hanakah (a Jewish holiday).

Answer 6

Why would you believe that it matters how many books there are?

Do you know how many books both sects didn't include because of their own belief's, not because God spoke to them saying don't include these books. There was much argument and debate, theorizing and postulating. That was how the bible was compiled: Human debate.

Humans wrote the bible, humans were taught by Jesus. As students of Jesus, even the Apostles had different belief's depending upon the way each one learnt and what they chose to focus on. You can teach one concept to 10 people, and each person may interpret your teaching in a slightly difrerent way.

Answer 7

it particularly is style of of a narrative to describe why, so bear with me. the recent testomony is an identical for protestants and Catholics. basically the OT differs. 2000 years in the past, this OT, the Jewish canon, replaced into nevertheless open. this is to assert, Jewish pupils nevertheless seen it concern to alter. So whilst this Jesus dude got here alongside and that they did not have faith in him, they sought to attempt against the excellent quantity of conversions happening. to try this, they took out seven books from their scripture - the seven they theory supported Christianity too plenty. bear in suggestions - their canon replaced into not yet closed, so it replaced right into a superbly appropriate component to do. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it did not quit the Christians, as they only persisted to apply those 7 different books. 1500 years later, some pupils got here alongside, Martin Luther certainly one of them, and discovered that Jewish pupils got rid of 7 books 1500 years before, yet did not on the time comprehend why, and commenced to doubt no count if Christians must be utilizing them the two, and so as that they declared them of questionable authenticity. The Catholic Church, on the council of Trent, reaffirmed what they had already declared interior the councils of the late 4th century - that those seven books have been certainly area of the Christian scriptures. This, like the strikes of the Jewish pupils, replaced into finished to help attempt against the increasing dissent in this concern interior the Church. yet like whilst the Jewish pupils tried it, it did not artwork and the Protestant reformation got here to finished tension. The seven books, talked approximately as the deuterocanon through people who use them and apocrypha through people who do not, replaced into saved in Protestant bibles in a separate area until the mid 1800's whilst it replaced into desperate that it replaced into not fairly certainly worth the extra value to print something they did not have faith replaced into real.

Answer 8

Because the Catholic Bible contains the Apocrypha, which are not inspired writings. God wanted to keep those out of the Bible. But the Catholic Church has worked against God throughout the ages.

Answer 9

I don't believe Christians should be divided on which Bible should be believed.

Answer 10

Simple.

Protestants removed books from the canon because those books were inconvienent to them.

Answer 11

Mormons have 83 + books wooooooo.....