: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition, Mary Mother of the Son Vol I, Mary Mother of the Son Vol II, The Work of Mercy, Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did, The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ, and The Heart of Catholic Prayer. First, it's important to note that the New Testament of the Bible is exactly the same between Catholics and Protestants. No. In fact, he wound up strenuously defending their status as inspired Scripture, writing, "What sin have I committed if I followed the judgment of the churches? Very well then, but what of the moral and theological "errors"? The Catholic Bible has the Apocrypha and the Christian Bible does not. They are known as the Deuterocanon, they include the bolded books below (in the Old Testament list) and parts of Esther (10:4-16, 14) and Daniel (3:24-90, 13, 14). What are some samples of opening remarks for a Christmas party? They are Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus and Baruch. Both the Jewish Bible and the Hebrew canon in a Protestant Bible (aka Old Testament) contain 39 books, whereas a Catholic Bible contains 46 books in the Old Testament. That charism is reserved uniquely to the pope, in an extraordinary sense and, in an ordinary sense, corporately to all the lawful bishops of the Catholic Church who are in full communion with the pope and are teaching definitively in an ecumenical council. If not, why? These include 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, and Wisdom, and additions to the books of Esther and Daniel. This myth is built on another attempt to distinguish between the deuterocanonical books and "true Scripture." The deuterocanonical books contain historical, geographical, and moral errors, so they can't be inspired Scripture. If you’ve ever perused through the books of the Catholic Bible vs. the Protestant Bible you may have noticed some additional books in the Catholic Bible. Catholics do not worship statues or saints. That's history. These Jews seem to have held to a canon resembling the modern Jewish canon, one far larger than that of the Sadducees but not as large as other Jewish collections of Scripture. So the Church hardly felt the obligation to conform to the wishes of the rabbis in excluding the deuterocanonical books any more than they felt obliged to follow the rabbis in rejecting the New Testament writings. > Why did the Protestants delete some books from the Catholic Bible? The Catholic Church has more than once taught what books are to be regarded as inspired and therefore belong to the Bible. Lesson 26 - Deuterocanonicals (7 Books of the Catholic Bible not in a Protestant Bible) What's In A Name: Protocanon, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha ISSUE: ... "The Martyrdom of Seven Brothers", which book was removed from the Protestant Bible. The list is here given. People don't talk much about the deuterocanon these days. Rather, they simply accepted and formally ratified the ancient practice of the Apostles and early Christians by dogmatically defining a collection of Old Testament Scripture (including the deuterocanon) that had been there since before the time of Christ, used by our Lord and his apostles, inherited and assumed by the Fathers, formulated and reiterated by various councils and popes for centuries and read in the liturgy and prayer for 1500 years. It is nowhere discussed in any other book of the Old Testament. The Roman Catholic Bible contains seven books that do not appear in most Protestant Bibles. A: There are seven books in the Catholic Bible — Baruch, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Tobit and Wisdom — that are not included in the Protestant version of the Old Testament. 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