differentiate catholic to christian bibles?

Answer 1

The Bibles all Christians hold in their hands -- every single translation -- are there because the body of Christian believers that is the Catholic Church preserved it through the centuries until, thanks to the printing press, it could be widely distributed. At which point many who would shortly be considered Protestant Christians basically said "thanks for the Good Book, but we're going to interpret it now", and in the process jettisoned seven books they didn't particularly think belonged in the Old Testament. (Some also wanted to toss the N.T. book of James but cooler heads prevailed).

So the Catholic Bible remains the same as it always was. The new kids on the block have an identical New Testament and seven books less in the Old. That's basically it, in a rather irreverent nutshell.

And noooobody here has even the tiniest sense of humor about this often-asked question, obviously.

Answer 2

Catholics are Christians. In fact the bigggest and the first Christian Church. Here is the answer to your question.

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 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 that were removed supported such things as
+ Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
+ Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
+ Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
+ Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)

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 church compiled and confirmed all the authentic books of the old testament, wrote all the books of the new testament, and infallibly canonized every book that is included in what we now know as "The Bible" by the end of the 4th century.

Most of the "heavy lifting" on the job was done by St. Jerome, who besides being a great saint and a holy priest, was a gifted language scholar who had unparalleled access to the original source documents ... many of which no longer even exist.

Jerome was also a lot closer (in time) to the whole and real truth, as much of it had just recently been unearthed in the holy land, in his day.

The bible remained in the common language of the people, complete and undefiled for a thousand years, before the protestant reformers decided that Jesus and the only church that he ever founded, authorized, empowered, and eternally guaranteed, had made some mistakes.

So the protestants unilaterally removed seven of the old testament books, even though they had absolutely no authority to do so.

Then, they began to re-write the scriptures in their own image, introducing damnable heresies, by the score.

Soon, much of the world had been deceived, and no one knew what might happen, as a result.

Some thought it might be a sign that the great apostasy was upon us, and that satan had once again been released upon the earth.

And indeed, it took some 500 years to see exactly what effect all this would have on modern society and on the world, as a whole.

Welcome to the 21st century!

Answer 5

The Protestant Bible has 66 books. The Catholic Bible has all 66 of those books, plus a good handful more. Most of the "extra" books are more histories.... ie 1st and 2nd Maccabees(in which you'll find the miracle Lights that Jews celebrate every winter ~ Hanuka. There are also books about the time when Christ was a child.

The Protestant leaders felt that those books were not Holy scriptures and thus, they were left out of the Protestant Bibles.

Protestant bibles also have red letter text, and you can easily find a bible with the Apracrypha included.

Answer 6

First of all, Catholics are Christian. Catholics usually prefer different versions of the Bible than Protestants. Protestants usually use King James or the New International Version. In the past Catholics have used the New American, New Jerusalem, etc. Sometimes the difference is just the style of writing, but sometimes, different versions can be with/without apocrypha. It has been a very long time since the Roman Catholic version of the Bible was in Latin.

Answer 7

The Catholic Bible IS a Christian Bible. Outside of a couple books that Protestants decided to leave out not much is different. Same principals. Catholicism is a Christian religion and I wish more people realized that.

Answer 8

The catholic bible has extra books;
Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Epistle of Jerimiah, Song of the Three Children, Story of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasseh, 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees.

Answer 9

Catholics are not Christians. Putting the Pope on the same level as Christ is totally wrong. Christians use the Bible, Catholics use the same bible, but with other books within it

Answer 10

The Bibles are not the same. Catholic bibles have added books that are not scripture which goes against the Christian bible according to Rev. 22:18.

Revelation 22:18 (King James Version)
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: