What is the difference between Protestant and Catholic Bibles? The result is that these versions of the the Bible have more Old Testament books than most Protestant versions. The Catholic version of the Old Testament contains 46 books. The Protestant version of the Old Testament contains 39 books. Notes were added to Catholic Bibles as those of the Geneva Bible.
The number of books contained in the New Testament are identical, numbering The word is an abbreviation of interpretatio septuaginta virorum or: translation by seventy men.
The teaching on the Trinity, that is, that there are three Persons in one God, is found in the Bible in the many instances where Jesus speaks about his relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
The terms that the Church needed to express this mystery were given to her over several hundred years by the same Holy Spirit that inspired the Gospel writers as they wrote of the words of Jesus that revealed the mystery in the first place.
Bible at Core of Catholic Beliefs. By Monsignor J. Brian Bransfield People ask if everything Catholics believe is found in the Bible. Experience the richness of your faith What will you discover? Explore more inspirational selections here. Though collections of sacred writings, varying in extent, existed in the various local Churches of Christendom, the canon or official list of Scripture was only compiled by the Church toward the end of the fourth century—at Hippo in , Carthage in , whence it was sent to Rome for confirmation in The Bible may be called the notebook of the Church, and she has always claimed to be the guardian, exponent, and interpreter of it.
As then, so today, private judgment leads to wild chaos in interpretation. But further, the rejection of the Bible has come directly from the claim of heretics to make it the sole rule of faith. The Bible is often obscure—a daily rule of faith and action must be clear —hence arose impatience of delays and obscurities. Two schools came from Protestantism: Believers in an almost wooden theory of verbal inspiration making no allowance for the human instrument e. The Church maintains absolutely the inspiration of Scripture.
But time and patience are sometimes needed to bring home their full bearing and mutual harmony. We must remember that the Church is often asked to accept as truth theories which are only imperfectly worked out or are full of errors. She rightly insists on waiting until the chaff and wheat have been sifted. She will not accept hypotheses as proved facts.
Hence they described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language or in terms which were commonly used at the time and which, in many instances, are in daily use to this day even by the most eminent men of science.
Until any question arises we accept these statements in their simple meaning. Thus the troubles about the Copernican system struck a severe blow to Protestant dependence on the Bible, but have not affected Catholic belief.
Thus, while outside the Church excessive dependence on the unsupported letter of Scripture has led to such a reaction that people are giving up the Bible altogether, the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, keeps for her children the treasure she originally gave them. But are her children even allowed access to this treasure? Are Catholics allowed to read the Bible?
Pre-reformation literature is saturated with Bible quotations. Much that is left to us consists either of books of the Bible or breviaries which are almost wholly made up of Scripture.
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