If Catholics and Christians?

Question

If Catholics and Christians are the same then why are there two separate bibles?

Answer 1

Well, you see, ...............

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 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 3

Catholics are a subset of Christians. All Catholics are Christian but not all Christians are Catholics. Think of it this way - all poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.

That said there are some differences. Catholics say that Protestants took out seven books of the Bible and Protestants say that Catholics added seven books.

Answer 4

All Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholics. The Protestants are missing seven books of the Bible because Martin Luther threw them out.

Answer 5

They are not the same. Being a Christian is believing in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We do no pray to any Saint to have God hear our Prayers. Catholics pray to Saints. They need a Saint to Go to Jesus with their prayer's so they can be answered. Its more along the line of Religion. Man made rules. Read the bible. It is a great book for guidance and understanding what God has left for us to use in our daily living. It is our past, Our present, and Our future.

Answer 6

there are seperate bibles because Catholics have some books in the bibles they use that protestants don't. Protestants don't believe that the books are holy or actually ment ot be in the bible. I guess thats a way to put it.

Answer 7

It is the same Bible only the Protestants use the Readers Digest Condensed version.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 8

they are not the same, they are on many many levels, totally different, I can only name a few as there are probably more that I don't even know about:

catholics worship the saints along with God and Jesus
Catholics believe in christening when the baby is first born, not the person making the decision for themselves, they believe you have to go through a series of classes to be able to take your first holy communion, and that you then need to be confirmed to the church where you take a new name, you confess you sins to a priest instead of talking straight to god, while in service the priest says his sermon and at certain times you answer back with practiced well taught sayings, and responses, I could go on and on, but its important for those who don't know, catholics and christians are different, and while christians, baptists, protestants, methodists are similiar they to are different and differ from each other, which makes it totally confusing and totally to compicated, and to be perfectly honest?...totally stupid, its simple, I believe in Jesus, I believe in the bible, I follow Jesus, therefore I am a christ follower, a christian, I do not have any other label other than someone who follows Jesus to the best of her ability and live my life in a reflection of him.

Answer 9

They differences in the two Bibles are very small.

The meat and potatoes part that's important is exactly the same.

Answer 10

There's also the Eastern Orthodox one and the Mormon one. By Christians you really mean 'Protestant'. Unfortunately I could not think of anything funny.

Answer 11

They believe different things.