To all Christians and Catholics...concern about the Bible.......?

Question

@ Christian If the catholic bible has truly added books.....do you think that there are questionable facts and teaching in them?

@Catholic If the Christian bible has removed books.....why do you think it was removed?

BTW what are were the apochrya about?

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 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 2

Yeow Teng K: You are false. The Catholic Chuch did not start until 325 AD with the Council of Nicea. It was politically motivated, and still is today.
You stated that the Catholics wrote the Bible that we read today? This too is seriously false. The Catholics had nothing to do with the KJV, because they wouldn't use the Textus Vaticanus, which was corrupt and fit the doctrine of the Church. The Catholic Church has a bloody and disgusting history of violence. It has attempted to assinate Kings and Queens, by claiming that those who are successful would be welcomed into Heaven by angels, it killed any who opposed it's doctrine, and the Pope is NOT the Vicar of Christ. It doesn't matter how long ago these atrocities happened, if they are the supreme men of God that they thought they were, they wouldn't have done the things they did.
The Vatican is the richest city-state in the world. How does that fit in with Jesus message of piety and being humble? The Catholic Church puts Mary on par with Jesus. BIG no-no. The Catholic Church kisses the foot of St. Peter, to the point where it is now worn down. Is that idol worship? If not, why Peter? Peter didn't go near Rome, James did. James is the Bishop of Rome, so how is Peter the first Pope?
Pope means father, and I don't have to go into this to say that Jesus said to call no man your father, save which is that in Heaven.

The Catholic Church is no different than the Pharisees and Saducees that Jesus called hypocrites time and time again. They "enlarge the borders of their garments" as the Bible says. They separate themselves from the common masses, but Jesus didn't.
In answer to the question of the original poster: The books that were added were written quite some time after John and his revalation from Jesus, and therefore were just extra. They are good reading, but should NOT be considered Scripture.

Answer 3

The Catholic Bible includes a few books that weren't found in the traditional Hebrew version of the Bible which were discovered while it was being translated into Greek. Whether or not you believe that these books are factual really depends on what denomination of Christianity (Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity) you practice.

Btw, the Eastern Orthodox church accepts more of these books as canon than the Catholic church.

Answer 4

You know Bob, you have stirred up an argument on who is more Christian than the other.

I'm a born again and washed by the blood of Christ Christian. The truth is there are books that the Catholics have that are omitted from the Bible we use, and I myself will not say that they have questionable teachings I haven't read them.

But you see here is the main issue when it comes to Christianity, Jesus Christ Himself said in the Book of John, "If you want to see the kingdom of God, you must be born again. If you want to enter the kingdom of God you must be born of water and of the Spirit."

We can argue all day about being Christian, but if you are not according to what Jesus says, you are not.

God bless!!!

Answer 5

The Apocrypha consists of 15 books of Jewish literature written during the intertestamental period. Come of them have historic value, but all are spurious, of unknown authorship, and without claim of inspiration or authority. Some are legendary and fantasy. Many of them are written to reinforce post-exilic Jewish opposition to idolatry.
The Jews do not accept the Apocrypha as part of their Scriptures.
Protestants do not accept the Apocrypha as Scripture, though some ascribe to them value as "good and useful reading" and "for example of life and instruction of manners."
The Roman Catholic 'Church' in effect accepts 12 of the apocryphal books as canonical (omitting I & II Esdras and the Prayer of Manassah from the above list.) Because of this the Roman Catholic 'Church' speaks of the Apocrypha as "deutero-canonical" books, and in turn labels as apocrypha what we may term "pseudoepigraphical" books."


Luther placed these books between the Old and New Testaments. For this reason, these works are sometimes known as inter-testamental books.

In 1592 Pope Clement VIII published his revised edition of the Vulgate. He moved three books not found in the canon of the Council of Trent into an appendix, "ne prorsus interirent," "lest they utterly perish".

The English-language King James Version of 1611 followed the lead of the Luther Bible in using an inter-testamental section labelled "Books called Apocrypha". It included those books of the Vulgate and the Septuagint which were not in Luther's canon. These are the books which are most frequently referred to by the casual appellation "the Apocrypha"

Answer 6

I was brought up in a strong Catholic upbringing. My parents even sent me to Catholic school. I'll tell you this: our stereo type is to ignore the book. I'm sure most don't know chapters were removed!

I'm not religious anymore, but I don't hesitate to talk to a Mormon, Jehovah Witness, or any other religious fanatic. They all point the finger and say, "Their bible isn't correct. MINE has the true translation and kept true to the FIRST book." Both cannot be right. People who truly believe in something will completely ignore other information that shows otherwise.

Answer 7

There have been no added books to the Bible, as we have over 24,000 copies of manuscripts of the NT in our possession today. Just google "manuscript evidence of the Bible" and take a few minutes to read it and you questions will be answered. Also google things like, "manuscript evidence, statistical evidence, archeological evidence, prophetic evidence, and documental evidence. There's hundreds and hundreds of books that talk about the Canonization of the Bible. It is a simple study. Good luck.

Answer 8

the books that were added or taken out which ever it was, I don't know? do not coincide with the other scripture. That is the reason that all scripture ever found was not included. You have to take all scripture regarding what you have found and compare it all together. If something is out of whack, and is going in the opposite direction of all the other teachings, than why leave it in the bible? or add it to the bible?

Answer 9

It began with human beings changing the bible to assist their sin. Down the line lots stuff have been given replaced that it led to mass confusion and issues that have been never contradictions are seen as contradictions. we would desire to return to the basics of the loopy theory that "perchance the bible is literal" lives might get replaced in one day.

Answer 10

History tells us that the various 'councils' decided which books were to be in our present version of the Holy Bible.
Some of the apocryphal books are included in the RC version but not in the Protestant versions.
There are many more apocryphal books not included in either.
We are told to trust that the versions as presented have been assembled with guidance from God and are therefore correct for us.
I personally like to look at the missing books too as it increases my understanding and confusion about the various parts.