What is the first Roman Catholic Bible?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerThe first Bible is the Jewish Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. The Christian Bible is, and always was, the "Catholic Bible". Jews of today, and Protestants have rejected what is known as the Deuterocanon from the Old Testament in their translations of The Bible. This is NOT the "Bible" that Jesus used, He used the Septuagint, which included all the books now contained in the Old Testament of the "Catholic Bible".

Answer 2

It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.

The first Bible put together as one book by the Catholic Church was at the Council of Rome in A.D. 382 by Pope Damasus. It used authorized the Septuagint - the Old Testament in Greek used by Our Blessed Lord and the New Testament books as we have them today.

For the first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Bible as we know it today. Christians had the Old Testament Septuagint, and literally hundreds of other books from which to choose. The Catholic Church realized early on that she had to decide which of these books were inspired and which ones weren't. The debates raged between theologians, Bishops, and Church Fathers, for several centuries as to which books were inspired and which ones weren't. In the meantime, several Church Councils or Synods, were convened to deal with the matter, notably, Rome in 382, Hippo in 393, and Carthage in 397 and 419. The debates sometimes became bitter on both sides. One of the most famous was between St. Jerome, who felt the seven books were not canonical, and St. Augustine who said they were. Protestants who write about this will invariably mention St. Jerome and his opposition, and conveniently omit the support of St. Augustine. I must point out here that Church Father's writings are not infallible statements, and their arguments are merely reflections of their own private opinions. When some say St. Jerome was against the inclusion of the seven books, they are merely showing his personal opinion of them. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. However, A PERSONS PRIVATE OPINION DOES NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH AT ALL. There are always three sides to every story, this side, that side, and the side of truth. Whether Jerome's position, or Augustine's position was the correct position, had to be settled by a third party, and that third party was the Catholic Church.