Catholic and Protestant Bibles: What is the Difference?

Catholic Exchange.com ^ | 02-06-07 | Mary Harwell Sayler

[irishtenor]

Watch it. Sounds like Protestant bashing.

You will find that the conservative Protestant churches do not have female elders of any sort.

[kawaii]

Yet I've heard the most conservative of protestants call 289 words which St paul spoke on headcovering 'fashionable at the time but no longer applicable' which represents anything but a conservative attitude towards scripture.

[Bainbridge]

Why on earth would a Roman Catholic church have NIV Bibles.
I must say that I am delighted, as it is a very useful translation but you guys are really something!

[Bainbridge]

You are forever mentioning the female head covering stuff.
Now, do the Roman Catholics you know abide by this early admonition? I for one have not seen it in reality for about 35 years.

[jo kus]

The problem was named "mohammed".

To be honest, that problem probably goes back to even the Gnostic days - Gospel of Thomas, for example...

Regards

[jo kus]

Scripture Alone Disproves "Scripture Alone"

Yea, and the Catholics are the ones with "traditions of men"?

What is amazing is the continued argument that some Protestants make - that THEY are the "true" keepers of the faith and "proper" Scripture interpretation. Anything that doesn't suit their fancy is a "tradition of men". So saith the "Spirit" who speaks DIRECTLY TO THEM!

Unfortunately for such wishful thinking, I have yet to find such a passage in the Bible that tells how the Holy Spirit comes to a PERSON and recites or reveals the Canon of Scriptures... But that is the common response - "the Spirit told me"...

Regards

[jo kus]

Sort of like some folk today, Marcion threw out all of the NT epistles, with the exception of the Pauline epistles. He also threw out all the Gospels except for Luke.

Almost certainly, Marcion used the same argument that some Protestants continue to use today - "The Spirit told me what is Scriptures".

Fortunately, the Church doesn't listen to such foolishness. We'd have a different canon every month!

Regards

[ScubieNuc]

Why on earth would a Roman Catholic church have NIV Bibles.

I never said I was Catholic.

[afraidfortherepublic]

A priest from my church explained that Luther removed some of those books because they mention either Purgatory or indulgences. Just now, I forget which. But it was one of the excesses that Luther was fighting so he banned the books.

[afraidfortherepublic]

You are comparing 2 Protestant versions of the Bible. How about including some quotes from the Douay? Or the New Jerusalem for Catholics?

[Bainbridge]

My error.
I was wrong in thinking I had remembered you as such.
So sorry!

[ArrogantBustard]

Mahomet was basically an Arian heretic ... on crack, PCP, and methaphetamine.

[ScubieNuc]

How about including some quotes from the Douay?

I'm not a Bible expert, and my post wasn't an attempt to slam Protestants or Catholics. It was only to inform people on information about the NIV. Here's something I found on Douay Rheims.

Truthfully, I had a hard time finding much on Douay Rheims. I found some history, but trying to find how it compares to accepted Greek texts is long and confusing. I'll have to look for the New Jerusalem info.

Sincerely

[ScubieNuc]

No problem.

[Pyro7480]

Now, do the Roman Catholics you know abide by this early admonition? I for one have not seen it in reality for about 35 years.

I see it every Sunday at the church I attend.

[Macoraba]

When I was a boy my fav OT book was BEL AND THE DRAGON.

[AlaninSA]

Martin Luther, being a relatively lazy type, deleted a good chunk of the Bible?

A British king, attempting to justify his own heresy and immorality, heavily edited a version to suit his own twisted lifestyle?

[AlaninSA]

Ours get read?

Your Bible gets read in snippets during your "services." Ours gets read completely during our liturgical cycle.

But I would not expect a protestant to understand that...the sects of protestantism are too into attacking the Catholic Church instead of actually learning about it.

[humblegunner]

Catholic and Protestant Bibles: What is the Difference?

Protestants don't pray to imaginary friends ping.

Hardly anything cries tears of blood in our houses, either.

Our tortillas don't have images on them and our grilled cheese sandwiches don't have faces.

If they did, we'd be scared and toss 'em out, yo.