roman catholic bible

Also, how many books does the Protestant Bible have? I know that the Catholic Bible has 72 books, 45 in the Old Testament and 27 in the new.

A bit.

Protestants have fully accepted each and every one of the 27 books that the Catholics selected for the New Testament over 1,500 years ago.

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 filled with the Holy Spirit 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.

2009-05-26 20:43:59 by Mrs. Ktresaw

Historical examination of the differences between the Catholic bible and the protestant bible

Have the priests found to be abusing children actually committed a sin under Roman Catholic dogma?

There were some good answers, but none addressed both issues.

1) the bible

The Christian bible does *not* specifically forbid sexual abuse of children but, as mentioned, it *does* prohibit fornication in the strongest possible terms.


2) dogma

"Meg M" gave the correct answer. Here, sexual abuse of children is specifically prohibited.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/bibles/

2009-01-04 10:42:37 by n b

Price: $31.95

I need to read like 30 chapters due to being out of school because of surgery.

The Roman Catholic Bible is the English language version of the Douay Reims. You can find it online at http://www.drbo.org It has a search option that lets you type a few words...just make sure you know how to differentiate words in modern english from old english. For example you would use the word "heareth" rather than "hears."

2009-03-27 04:49:02 by Carmine

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For political expedience he incorporated some of the pagan practices that were being practiced at the time like the belief in a trinity and in hellfire torment.

He never changed the roman catholic bible. There is only one bible. Some translators have changed some wording ... most importantly by eliminating God's name Jehovah from it's rightful place ... but the bible by and large is the same no matter which translation you pick up.

2009-06-01 08:09:53 by coliobeware

I am in need of buying a Roman Catholic Bible. Do you know any good web resourses to buy one? I tried googling and ebay, but most results are various fancy catholic books but not original bibles.
and since there are tons of Christian denominations, i need to be sure its a roman catholic one.
thanx in advance!

you can go to http://www.automonline.com/ for starters.

any large bookseller will also have them, like Barnes&Noble.


I recommend the Douay Rheims bible.

http://www.autom.com/autom/Bibles_304479/Misc-Bibles_451486/Item_Douay-Rheims-Bible_75831.htm

But if you cant afford it, get a good study bible like the NAB Catholic study Bible http://www.autom.com/autom/Bibles_304479/Study-Bibles_304559/Item_Paperback-NAB-Catholic-Bible_55975.htm

2006-12-26 13:18:02 by Ziriphalah