What information does the Catholic Bible have in it that is different from the other bibles?

Question

I dont mean what books are in there that are not in the other bibles.
What I mean is, what do those extra books talk about? Why are they not included in other bibles (KJV, NIS, for example)?

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

The Bible is usually divided into two sections called the Old and New Testament. The Old Testament is the same as the Hebrew scriptures used by the Jewish faith. About 250 years before the time of Jesus the Hebrew scriptures where translated into Greek as the ancient Hebrew used in it was become a dead language that few people knew. This new translated included a handful of additional writings that cover the history of that time, as well as some additional songs (psalms) and another book of wise sayings. These books have never been considered scripture by the Jews. By the time of Jesus, the Greek version of the OT had become "the" version much the way the King James Bible was "the" English version up until the mid-20th century. Every quote made by Jesus and the apostles is taken from the Greek version. (But since they were writing in Greek, it would not have made since to quote the OT in Hebrew in the middle of a Greek document.) The Catholic Bible retains all the material found in that Greek versions as it was originally translated from the Greek version. (Hebrew scholars were almost unknown in the 5th century AD when the first Latin (Catholic) Bible was translated.) The Protestant Bible usually only contains the books found in the Hebrew scriptures, as Protestant Bibles are normally translated directly from the Hebrew rather than the later Greek translation. The other books are available in some printings as a separate section located between the Old and New Testament (which is the time period they cover and when they were written.) Both Bible contain all the same books in the New Testament. Those are always translated from the same Greek manuscripts. I assume that by the Jehovah Bible you are referring to what is known as the New World Translation. It is a Bible translated and printed by the Jehovah's Witnesses. It is the only Bible I know of in print were the translators refuse to identify themselves, or list any of their sources for the translation. If you take the translation and read it next to any Catholic or Protestant translation, you will find that it varies greatly from the,. It often drops whole sections of verses or adds to them. When compared to the original documents, it is a very loose and poor translation. It contains the same books as the Protestant Bible, and does not include the additional writings from 250 BC found in the Catholic Bible.

Answer 3

In 1546, the Roman Catholic Church officially declared that God had inspired twelve of the fifteen writings of the Apocrypha, specifically, seven books:

Tobit
Judith
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Wisdom of Solomon
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
Baruch and five passages: and five passages:

The Letter of Jeremiah, which became Baruch, chapter 6
A 107 verse expansion of the Book of Esther
The Prayer of Azariah, which became Daniel 3:24-90
Susanna, which became Daniel 13
Bel and the Dragon, which became Daniel 14
The Roman Catholic Church?s claim that these writings of the Apocrypha are inspired must be rejected for the following reasons:

? The Apocrypha does not present itself as inspired. The author of 2 Maccabees says that his book is the abridgement of another man?s work (2 Maccabees 2:23). He concludes the book, saying, "If it is well written and to the point, that is what I wanted; if it is poorly done and mediocre, that is the best I could do" (2 Maccabees 15:38). Mediocre is a good description of the Apocrypha. Despite its historical value, it promotes questionable ethics, fanciful legends, and doctrine that contradicts Scripture.

? The Jews of Palestine never accepted the Apocrypha as part of sacred Scripture. Neither was there a Jewish prophet living during the time in which the Apocrypha was written (300-30 B.C.).

? Jesus and the New Testament writers did not treat the Apocrypha as inspired. Though the New Testament quotes virtually every book of the Old Testament, there is not a single quotation from the Apocrypha.

? The early church as a whole never accepted the Apocrypha as inspired. Moreover, many Christian leaders spoke against the Apocrypha, including: Jerome, Origen, Athanasius, and Cyril of Jerusalem.

? Even the Roman Catholic Church did not dogmatically declare the Apocrypha to be inspired until the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. Roman Catholic priest Father. H. J. Schroeder, a translator of the decrees of the Council of Trent writes, "The Tridentine list or decree was the first infallible and effectually promulgated declaration on the Canon of the Holy Scriptures." ii The purpose of the Council of Trent was to counteract the Protestant Reformation. Protestants had rejected the Apocrypha. Rome reacted by dogmatically declaring most of the Apocrypha to be inspired. The Apocrypha also included teachings that could help Rome defend its doctrine against growing Protestant criticism. For instance, Martin Luther had forcefully argued against Rome?s practice of selling pardons from purgatory. Tobit 12:9 supports the practice, stating, "?almsgiving saves one from death and expiates every sin." Even some Catholic writers acknowledge that Trent?s decision to accept the Apocrypha as inspired is problematic. iii

Answer 4

One reason the seven books of the old testment were not always included is..... Originally the Catholic version of the Bible differed from the well-known King James Version because the Scripture Scholars who translated the Scriptures, disagreed on the source of these books. Catholic scholars believed them to be inspired by God, as did the Jewish scholars. Many other scholars did not believe, among them, were the scholars of the King James Version
1Maccabees talkes about the struggle of the Jewish people.
2 Maccabees continuation of 1 Maccabees
The book of Daniel "court tales"

Answer 5

These were books that were translated by the Septuagint around 200 BC. They were Hebrew books that were not actually part of the Tanach (aka Old Testament). But when the early Christian church formed they used the Septuagint Old Testament instead of the Hebrew Tanach.

When the Protestants broke away from the Catholic church, they got rid of the Septuagint Old Testament in exchange for the original Hebrew Tanach.

These additional books are called 'The Apocrypha.' They contain some history that goes beyond the Old Testament, but there is nothing of theological significance in them that is not duplicated somewhere else in the O.T.

Answer 6

They talk about veneration of saints, praying for the dead, communion with the deceased, atonement after death (purgatory), basically all the Catholic doctrine that the Protestants refuted are found in those books, hence there removal.

SDW for the second time tonight the deuterocanonical books are NOT the Apocrypha. the Apocryphal books are not included in any canon of the Bible.

Answer 7

They are using the same bible but they are not following some of the teachings of God in the bible. They are following the doctrines of the catholic congregation and came from the Pope and the pagan belief and belief on traditions and customs of the Roman people.

Answer 8

because the Jews took them away at Jamnia after Christ...catholics are following the Christian Canon and protestants the Jewish-they contain info on prayers for the dead among other thing Jesus even alluded to them.

Answer 9

They speak of suicide, Raphael, dung on one's head, and a plethora of other rude things that you could look up yourself. These are the MOST interesting books of the bible bar none. They were written by someone who had TALENT!!! ACtual TALENT!!! BEst of ALL, you WON'T go to hell if you read them. If you read Harry Potter books, however,....well, I won't tell you what the Vatican's chief exorcist says about them. Just suffice it to say that they are not good for your soul.

Answer 10

Those other books aren't there because Protestant leaders decided they weren't necessary. Wasn't that thoughtful of them to do the thinking for you?