Serious Bible Students, Please:
More Specifically how does the Catholic version of scripture differ from The King James Version in the presentation of God's Holy 10 Commandments? Are they one in the same? If not, which one is the correct one?
2007-12-31 06:30:33 · 5 answers · asked by *Truth Seeker* 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
2007-12-31 15:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we have more books. seven to be exact.
2007-12-31 19:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at Exodus Chapter 20 of teh KJV and Catholic Bible, you will see they are the same. You will also see that the commandments are not numbered in the Bible. Protestants and Catholics number the commandments differently. Here is how the Catholics number the commandments:
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a1.htm
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a2.htm
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a3.htm
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a4.htm
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not kill.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a5.htm
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not commit adultery
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a6.htm
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not steal.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a7.htm
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a8.htm
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a9.htm
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not covet . . . anything that is your neighbor's. . . . You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a0.htm
2007-12-31 14:45:42 · answer #3 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had two rules. He ask that we love our neighbor and told us not to judge.
The other rules in the bible are for people who are not smart enough to figure these two out.
Love and blessings Don
2007-12-31 14:35:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
KJV created to meet an agenda of those protesting the Catholic Faith.
The Bible is Catholic Based. The Catholic Church compiled the official Biblical Books of the original Bible.
This is why the Catholic Faith can never be Bible Alone, because our Faith existed before the Bible was compiled.
Bible Alone is not biblical, and not found anywhere in the Bible itself.
Ironic isn't it?!
2007-12-31 14:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Lives7 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋