Why does the catholic bible have more books in the old testament then other bibles?
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The Roman Bible (Jerome) used the Greek texts when translating into Latin, while the Protestant Bible (Martin Luther) used the Hebrew texts for the Old Testament when he translated the scriptures.\n\n\nThe Apocrypha is a set of 14 books that had been allowed by the Jewish Sanhedrin in Jerusalem to be used among Greek speaking Jews over the course of Greek Helenization that took place between the Old and New Testaments. Although never part of the Hebrew scriptures, these apocryphal writings had increased in authority merely by the passing of time. Shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, a group of Jewish Rabbis met in Jamnia to codify the ancient scripture for a population that had now been widely dispersed. They were also reacting to the Jewish cult of Christianity that continued to grow in popularity. In order to completely sever ties to these Greek speaking Christians, they purified the Hebrew canon by discrediting anything that was originally written in Greek.  This is what Martin Luther used.
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There are alot more then just 10 bibles in the world, alot of people believe if its not in English then its not the right translation, you must remember that the English bible is a translation, some people think the King James it the most accurate bible out there but remember the first bible was written in Greek and Hebrew. To learn more about translations taking a Hermenutics class would help you understand this.
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The Catholics are using the Latin Vulgat Bible, obviously translated a couple of times, but yes, its the Jesiut bible. The christian bible and the catholic bible is NOT the same.
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Have you read the Bible? Pick any passage you like, and you'll be able to come up with at least two or three ways to interpret it. Even something that seems straightforward, like a bland historical account (So-and-so begat So-and-so, who did this in the 4th year of the reign of...), there's always the question of WHY it's in there. Catholics and Protestants and Mormons don't even use the same Bible! There's a base of knowledge we all share, but it comes from our personal relationships with God as much as from the Bible.
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well, no thought has to go into this, this is historical fact.  Many books were left out of the final book.  The old testament has books like The book of Enoch and there are also later books like the Maccabees I and 2 that are made about a century before christ.  These are called Apocrypha.  There are also many books left out of the new testament or edited in some way, there is the Gospel of Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Marc which is differently edited than the one we currently know.  The problem is, a lot of these books that were taken out of the new testament at least were written many many years after christs death so when the early church created the canon they decided what was most in use and what most applied in terms of creation date.
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Because a LOT of the world population DOES NOT believe or care about a book written by men centuries afterJesus christ's life.\nGet real, the bible is JUST a book, no more, no less!
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I am not sure if he was, but our current bible is missing several books.  Each of the 11 disciples wrote a book (all but Judas), but we only have 4.  Also, bear in mind that the Catholic Bible and Protestant Bible have different books.  However, although I am sure he probably wrote "something" about Christ, I can not say for sure it was a "book," and that his book was rejected.
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Catholics are encouraged to read the Bible.\n\nThe Catechism of the Catholic Church says: The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful to learn ‘the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ,' by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. ‘Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.'\n\nThere are four separate Scripture readings during every Sunday Mass.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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As you get older you realize how quickly life goes by.  You wonder what is after life on this earth and thus, many older people will read the bible more.
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+ The Catholic Bible +\n\nThe New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation, 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAfter 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. \n\nThe 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).\n\nThe Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.\n\n1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.\n\nHere is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/\n\n+ The First Pope +\n\nJesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:17-19)\n\nThe Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.\n\nThe Pope is the senior pastor of 1.1 billion Catholics, the direct successor of Simon Peter.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Although your question does have a slight antagonistic bent to it, I'd like to give you one part of the answer. \nFirst, my understanding is that the term "Catholic Church" is the only term we have for the ancient church. Thus, at the time of compiling the Bible, I believe that a Protestant Church did not even exist. So naturally, the "Catholic Church" would have been the Christ's "official" body and thus would have compiled and 'Cannonized'  the Bible.\n\nPlease check this site out to answer SOME of your question...\nhttp://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=685\n\nNow, both the Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles have thirty-nine books in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New. The **difference** is that a Roman Catholic Bible has an additional eleven books inserted between the Testaments: The Apocrypha, which the protestant church has actually rejected for a number of reasons. \n\nBoth churches use the same OT and the same NT because of their reliable 'historicity', etc.\n\nPlease visit the website listed above which details some of the reasons for why the Protestant churches actually have a different Bible than the Catholic church. \n\nHope that helps! :)
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Yes it is true there were many more 'books' in the bible centuries ago. And an equmenical council was organised to detirmine what should be removed because it didn't stick to bible principals that they  had  agreed on at that time.\nMany scriptures refer to others to form a common thread.\nGod  choose certain men to write his materials over thousands of years, and that was the guiding principal for continueity.
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Catholics use a Bible that has added books that aren't put into a protestant version. Catholics pray to Mother Mary and use rosary which protestants don;t usually. Catholic priests usually can't marry legally and father children. Priests hear the congregations confession. There are many other ones, but this is a start
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I have many, many Bibles and often use them to compare scriptures which I'm studying.  But for reading and teaching I prefer a modern language text, and one that is TRANSLATED (from original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic) as opposed to one that is a VERSION.  My two favorites are The New World Translation and the American Standard Bible.  Also I prefer ones that have footnotes and cross references, which I use a great deal.
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I agree. The Bible has a lot of wisdom, a lot of true stories, a lot of symbolic stories, and errors.
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Bible is older and they both make up stories.
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The New American Bible is the version used in Catholic Churches in the United States. It might be convenient to read the same words that you hear at Mass.