If you've read the bible, did you read all of the books?  Even the ones that didn't make the cut?
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Why does the Catholic Bible have more books than the Protestant Bible?\nThe Catholic Bible has 73 books, while the Protestant Bible has 66 book. Why?\n\nThe book known as the Bible was originally a various collections of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Chaldean (Daniel, Esther, and others were in Chaldean and not part of the Torah or Haftorah [The Law and the Prophets]) documents read by the early Christians in their worship. Some churches had some writings and others had other writings, but the Bible was not a whole book until the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D.\n\nAfter the Emperor Constantine forbade the persecution of Christians, they were able to emerge from the catacombs and freely associate. There followed a great deal of discussion of what was considered scripture. There were some books that they promoted as scripture that are not in the Bible today, such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Epistle of Barnabas.\n\nTo resolve this dilemma, the Church assembled the leading scholars and experts of that time in Carthage to decide what was really scripture. The document they produced was called The Canon of Scripture, and here is the text of this document:\n\n"[It has been decided] that nothing except Canonical Scriptures should be read in the church under the name of Divine Scriptures. But the Canonical Scriptures are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Josue [Joshua], Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings [1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings], Paralipomenon two books [1 and 2 Chronicles], Job, the Psalter of David [Psalms], five books of Solomon [Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclestiasticus or Sirach], twelve books of the [minor] prophets [Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi], Isaias, Jeremias [includes Lamentations of Jeremiah and the words copied by his scribe Baruch], Daniel, Ezechiel, Tobias, Judith, Esther, two books of Esdras [Ezra, Nehemiah], two books of the Machabees. Moreover, of the New Testament: Four books of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles one book, thirteen epistles of Paul the apostle [Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon], one of the same to the Hebrews, two of Peter, three of John, one of James, one of Jude, the Apocalypse of John. Thus [it has been decided] that the Church beyond the sea [Rome] may be consulted regarding the confirmation of that canon; also that it be permitted to read the sufferings of the martyrs, when their anniversary days are celebrated." \nThese writings were delivered to St. Jerome, the leading scholar in the Old Testament and ancient languages. St. Jerome together with the brothers of of his monastery painstakingly translated the writings into Latin, which was the universal language of the day. This first Bible was called the Biblia Vulgata of the Vulgate or Common Bible.\n\nDuring the rise of Protestantism, for various unsubstantiated reasons the following parts were removed from the Bible.\n\nThe Book of Tobit \nThe Book of Judith \nThe Wisdom of Solomon \nThe Book of Sirach [Ecclesiasticus] \nThe Writings of Baruch \nThe First and Second Books of the Macabees \nTwo Chapters of Daniel and the Song of the Hebrew Children in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:25-90)\nConsequently, the Catholic Bible has 72 books and the Protestant Bible has 66. One interesting note is that the original King James version of the Bible had all the books and writings found in the Catholic Bible.
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Yes!\nI didn't start reading them until after the 3rd movie came out. I thought they were just kids books. When I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle a couple years ago I thought I'd give it a try. I read all 5 books in about a month. Ever since then, I fell in love with the books. I've read them all many times! I can't wait until the next one!
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that's not what he wrote, that's what he said.\n\ni am quite sure we won't know the answer to that. it was probably edited out by those who chose what books they wanted in the bible
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No, Yes and Yes.\n\nThe Bible itself tell us it is a mystery, and we know for a fact that not all of it is literal, but much of it is stories used to teach us lessons. \n\nI believe, and you wont find many like me, in a God seperate from the Bible. I believe there are things we don't know, and may never know. I believe the Bible gives us only a small acconut of history, and there is much that is left out. To me, God exists seprate from the Bible. I would still believe as I do, if there was none.
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People who think The Bible is such a great book clearly haven't read much of anything else. Frankly I'm not sure they've even read The Bible.
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Well I never slag on my BIBLE its everything I need to know on life and its my rule book. I haven't read it in whole but read great parts in my life and I'm still reading it. interpreting words through dictionary's which mean totally different from what I'm understanding, I'm learning everyday!
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I take it you don't even have a Gideon's Bible [KJV] handy... \n\nWell, there are over sixty books in it and they were authored by over four dozen people [prophets, messengers, disciples, scribes, etc.]. \n\nOkay, here are a few Books found in the Old Testament: Genesis; Exodus; Numbers; Leviticus; Deuteronomy; Joshua; Samuel; Job; Psalms; Isaiah; Daniel; etc...\n\nPeace be with you!
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YES\n it is all true! The Bible is an AMAZING BOOK!\nBecause it's GOD'S WORD!
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No, but if you don't you will be missing some wonderful books.\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\nWith love in Christ.
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66 Books of the Bible
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yes. i dont see the big deal about that book...or the bible for that matter, its just words, ya know?
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i've read the bible 5 times in 3 different translations.\n\nnow im an athiest.
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I just checked out the Gospel of Judas the other day @ the local B&N. Wow. It felt like a part of history jumping into my hands.\n\nKnowing what Judas was to become; reading what depictions he'd written of Jesus; the pieces of text felt so raw with emotion. They felt so real. Knowing the ending of the story of course, did make some of the pre-betrayal friendliness tough to swallow.\n\nThis brought me to the realization that these newer books need to be included, don't they? I haven't asked my priest at church, but a newer version has to be in the works.\n\nForget about red tape, just order the entries and publish the thing.\n\nWith the Da Vinci Code getting more publicity than the Dead Sea Scrolls, now'd be a pretty good time to release a newer, fuller edition of The Bible.\n\nThanks for answering my last question,\n\n-Justin
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I do completely. The bible is an incredible work of antiquity. Never ever has the bible been proven wrong. There are countless events/places from the bible that archaeologists have found including;\nUr-the city where Abraham lived for awhile\nNebucenezzar-king of Persia-now Iraq\nTomb of Ciaphus-high priest who brought Jesus to trial\nWalls of Jericho found\nKing David's bathes\n\nAnd SO much more.\nThere were eye witnesses for the events in the bible. Many who had everything to loose by claiming the Jesus was messiah.\nThere is non christian evidence that the man Jesus WAS here many wrote of him including Tacitus who was a Roman historian  , Josephus who was a Jewish historian, Pliney the Younger who was the imperial legate of the Roman province of Bithynia. He wrote to the Emperor many times about the followers of Jesus and Christians . Many atheists know the man Jesus was here because of these writings. \n\nEvidence of the massive flood: In the 1920s, Sir Charles Woolley, a British archaeologist, while working at Tell al-Muqayyar, in the area of Ur in Mesopotamia, made a startling discovery. He had been digging vertical shafts deep into the soil in the ancient city. As expected, he found layer after layer of evidence of human life - the remnants of graves, pottery, and rubble. But suddenly, it all stopped at a layer of pure clay that was approximately 10 feet thick. Such an abrupt and deep layer of clay, far above the ancient level of the nearby Euphrates river, was very unusual. It indicated a massive flood.\n\nWoolley's workmen kept digging through the layer of sedimentary (i.e. water borne) clay, that had no evidence of human habitation, until it ended as abruptly as it started and they again found deposits of graves, pottery, rubble - but which were nothing at all like that found above the layer of water-deposited clay. The clay layer marked the boundary between two very different worlds, two very different civilizations, that Woolley declared were the before and after worlds of the flood. Woolley's findings made headline news in Britain and the United States at the time.\n\nPossible evidence of Noah's ark on a mountain in Turkey;\nThe mountains of Ararat are located between the Black and Caspian Seas in southern Armenia. Although "Mount Ararat" has become popularly used for where Noah's ark came to rest, as The Bible account states, Ararat was actually a mountain range. Two peaks, about 7 miles / 11 kilometers apart, have been identified as the most likely location of the ark's resting place. The one is 14,300 feet and the other 10,300 feet above the adjacent Araxes plain. The higher of the two has a snow-covered peak year round (which would also leave any remnant of Noah's ark mostly hidden under a cover of snow and ice), and was known to the ancient Persians (who were neither Jews nor Christians) as "Noah's mountain."For generations, the people of the Armenian village of Bayzit, located at the foot of Mount Ararat, have told of how a mountain shepherd found a large wooden ship high up on the mountain.\n\nIn 1833, a Turkish summer expedition reported finding the wooden prow of a large ship sticking out of the south glacier (if the wood of Noah's Ark did survive all of that time, along with it having been coated in tar, or "pitch," by Noah himself, being frozen in the mountaintop ice would have preserved the wood - although a glacier has its own destructive forces as it actually moves, along with everything on, and in, it).\n\nIn an expedition in 1892, Dr. Nouri, the Archdeacon of Jerusalem and Babylon, claimed to have seen the wreckage of a large ship partially visible in the mountain ice. He said "The interior was full of snow, the outer wall was of a dark red color."\n\nDuring the First World War, a Russian flying officer named Roskowitzki claimed to have seen the "wreckage of a fair sized ship" on the south side of Mount Ararat.\n
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Matthew 15:22 - 28. A Canaanite woman begs Jesus for help with her daughter, who is possessed. He tells her that he was sent only to help the lost sheep of Israel, because:\n"It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." -Mat 15:26 (NIV)\n\nDo any of you "Christians" actually read the Bible, or do you just go around insisting that other people read it?
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What you got out of the book you read
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That depends upon your definition of "missing." There are a number of "books" which were deliberately excluded from the Bible and which many people now call "The Apocropha." These include such rejected "books" as The Book of Thomas and the new-found Book of Judas. Most of these books were rejected were because the leaders of the Catholic Church decided they contained "hereises" which contradicted what the church wanted people to believe.