who wrote the Catholic bible?

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

Before any written texts, there were oral teachings (of One God)

The Pentateuch ("The Law"), is the first 5 books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy). First written by Moses (inspired by God) c.1,300 B.C. to c. 454 or 100 B.C.

OLD TESTAMENT: 46 completed books c. 100 B.C.(note: 46 books, NOT only 39 as is in the Protestant versions)

THE SEPTUAGINT: (the sole and official canon of the Catholic O.T.) c. 280 or 250 B.C. to 100 B.C.

Under Pharaoh of Egypt: Ptolemy Philedelphus commissioned 70 Jewish Scholars (Scribes) to translate into the vernacular (common language spoken at the time): GREEK This is the Greek translation that Jesus and His Apostles (and Jews at the time) used, and quoted from as well.

(After the dispersions of the Jews, they began to lose their Hebrew tongue, and Greek, which was the universal language at the time, became their spoken tongue.)

After the death of Jesus, and many of His Apostles, c. 100 A.D., in the village of Jamnia (in ancient Israel -see "Jabneh") the Sadducees (enemies of Christ and non-believers in the resurrection, life-afer-death, and angels...) assembled a completely new version of Jewish scripture, omitting some books entirely and rewriting others.

The result is the JAMNIAN CANON, or, the PALESTINIAN TALMUD.

(There is also another version known as the BABYLONIAN TALMUD.)In Acts 5: 17-19, it states that the Sadducees were particularly zealous enemies of Christianity.

One of them for instance (Aquila) removed the word PARTHENOS (virgin), from Isaiah 7:14, and rendered it NEANIS (a young woman)shall conceive. That way they could assert that the prophecy didn't match what the Christians were teaching.

An interesting note: Since the deviation from the True Old Testament, Judaism has splintered into many different sects. (Sounds familiar as has happened to Protestants, there are currently 33,000 different Protestant sects with more new ones being established each year.)

During the Reformation, the Protestants rejected the Catholic Bible and adopted the (altered) Hebrew Bible, that does not have the complete 46 Books and verses.

This is why the Protestant's "Old Testament" part of their Bible has only 39 Books, and incomplete passages/verses in parts.

Thus, the (altered) Hebrew Bible is what the Jews today use, and the Church has the TRUE, complete, Old Testament. So we see that the two differ.

The Prostestants have the Hebrew Old Testament as part of their Bible, and the Catholic New Testament. So we see that before the Reformation the True Church has always kept intact the True Scriptures - Old and New.

And after the Reformation, after using the Bible for over 1500 years, man altered the Bible, by adopting the altered Hebrew Bible, and through Martin Luther, even added words to the Bible!

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Answer 3

It's the same as other bibles, they include 7 "extra" OT books. if that's what you're referring too. Catholic Bibles contain all the books that have been traditionally accepted by Christians since Jesus’ time. Protestant Bibles contain all those books, except those rejected by the Protestant Reformers in the 1500’s. The chief reason Protestants rejected these biblical books was because they did not support Protestant doctrines, for example, 2 Maccabees supports prayer for the dead.The term “canon” means rule or guideline, and in this context means “which books belong in the Bible (and, by implication, which do not).”

The Catholic Old Testament follows the Alexandrian canon of the Septuagint,the Old Testament which was translated into Greek around 250 B.C. The Protestant Reformers follows the Palestinian canon of Scripture (39 books), which was not officially recognized by Jews until around 100 A.D.

Answer 4

The Jewish patriarchs and prophets, and the Apostles appointed by Christ. It's the same Bible Protestants use, except for the 7 books their founder threw out after they had been used by every Christian on earth for 1,200 years. Luther also planned on throwing out 3 New Testament books that didn't agree with his novel doctrinal ideas, but fortunately his followers wouldn't hear of trashing the writing of the Apostles themselves, so at least protestants have a complete New Testament, even though they are missing 7 of the Old Testament books of the original Bible.

Answer 5

The first Xians - it was put together by a committee of bishops in the late 300s at the earlier behest of Constantine.
Your next questions should be: Who wrote each of the stories? What was their agenda? Why were some stories included and others not?

Answer 6

The catholic bible is based upon the the Nicaean creed which was imposed by the first council of Nicaea and resided over by the pagan emperor Constantine in 325. They basically collected all of the doctrines of the apostles that were circulating around at the time and 'fixed' them by destroying anything that was contradictory and changing things so they stayed consistent. out of the 80 original doctrines, some including possibly the works of Jesus Christ, only 4 doctrines now remain (apart from the dead sea scrolls etc).

Answer 7

several council of theologians compiled the works of the apostles and the oral histories of the Hebrew texts over decades at Nicea. Anyone who thinks this is tanamount to "men" putting together what they felt liked dont understand the closeness their generation had to Christ himself, his apostles and the aftermath of his crucifixion - especially the precedding decades it took the Christian community to overcome the injustices of the Roman empire.

Well Im a Roman Catholic - Christian, to wit. Im not sure about these Xians, though. they seem to be a new breed entirely.

Answer 8

Who wrote any bible? I can tell you it was a MAN. The MAN.

Answer 9

Same people who wrote the other Bible.

The "meat" in all the Bibles are basically the same.....it's just some verbiage that's different.

Answer 10

its the same but there are 5 added books..including macabee..