do prodestants and catholics read the same bible?

Question

I have bought a bible as a christening present and i just wondered if there is a different bible for christians and a different one for catholics?

Answer 1

yes,ask the store clerk.

Answer 2

There are subtle but important differences between bibles produced by and for Catholics, and those produced for everyone else.

The biggest difference is the 7 books that the protestants removed from the old testament of the bible, which are authentic and which were universally accepted since the bible was first compiled and coanonized by the Catholic church, a thousand years before.

There are other differences in translation and in commentary, that reflect the various and respective beliefs, or lack of beliefs.

As a purely practical matter, most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

Answer 3

This is a bit of a difference.

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

yes... they read the same bible. However, some catholics read a translation from the latin vulgate, which is a translation of the greek text. most protestants read english translated directly from the greek text.

There are a few extra books that the catholics recognize as well.

Answer 5

Yes, different books are included and different translation. But the differences are not tremendous. It's pretty much the same in content.

But unfortunately, both groups tend to overlook the Original Kingdom Gospel Jesus actually preached... about a "treasure hid in a field." Both groups tend to favor the teachings of Paul, who was not one of the apostles... even though he as been appointed as an apostle, because of his claim to be one I suppose.

Answer 6

DUH!...hey ..but thats a good question cause the whole reason why Martin Luther(creator of one of the prostestant denominations) was because they thought catholics were not doing the right thing..or something...