The New Testament used by the protestants is the same New Testament that the Christian Church has always used. The Christian Church has always used the same Old Testament that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, used, which was the Septuagint: the Greek translation of the Old Testament Bible made in the fourth century before Christ and used by most of the Jews in the first century A.D. The Jews who did not accept Jesus as the promised Messiah, in the second century removed the Deuterocanoical books from their Bible as they supported specifically Christian teachings, and are referred to numerous times in the New Testament. Martin Luther fourteen centuries later, when he was making up his own religion, removed these same books on the grounds that the Jews had. The Catholic Church indeed added in many books to the Bible, they are called the New Testament today by all Christians. The only subtractions or additions since then has been Martin Luther mutilating the Old Testament scriptures and adding words to the New Testament to support his novel teachings.
A:The Qur'an makes reference to stories told in the Old and New Testament, but does so in its own way, without including actual narratives from the Bible.
William Tyndale believed that God called him to translate the Bible into English so that the common people could have access to it and understand its teachings without relying on the clergy. He believed it was crucial for ordinary individuals to have direct access to the words of God.
Both the Old and New Testament say the same thing in that regards, You Can't No one according to the Bible itself has ever seen God. But it is also written in the New Testament, "That in Heaven, no one is closer to God Then Children" And how can anyone Resist that Glow. How can you see the face of God in your own daily life?
Mormons are Christians. They worship God and Jesus, and are considered part of the Protestant tradition. They believe that the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and New Testament are sacred scripture. But they also believe their own bible, the Book of Mormon, is sacred scripture too.
Abrahamic religions, which include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each have their own sacred texts that guide their beliefs and practices. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is the holy book of Judaism. Christianity holds the Bible, consisting of the Old Testament (similar to the Hebrew Bible) and the New Testament, as its sacred scripture. Islam’s holy book is the Qur'an, which Muslims believe to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
.Catholic AnswerAs the Catholic Church is the one that wrote the New Testament, decided which books would go into it, translated the Old Testament from the Greek Septuagint, and the New from the original documents; and then preserved the entire thing for over 15 centuries, not only does it have both the Old and New Testaments, but without the Catholic Church nobody would have either. It was the Church that preserved and copied all the books of both for the past two thousand years. Before the printing press was invented, without the Catholic monks spending their entire lives making copies of both, they would have been lost centuries ago. The Jews threw out six books of the Old Testament some time in the first century as they supported Catholic teaching, and those, too, would have been lost. .Specifically, there is no "Catholic Bible", there is only the Bible, which the Catholic Church has carefully maintained all these centuries. There is a "protestant bible" which threw out books which didn't agree with Martin Luther's new religion, and there is a Jewish Bible which was only part of the Old Testament. The only complete Bible is maintained in the Catholic Church.
The New Testament writers believed that God's word was inspired and authoritative. They saw their own writings as a means to convey God's message and teachings to others. They sought to faithfully communicate the message of Jesus Christ and the principles of the Christian faith through their writings.
The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NRSV) contains both the standard Protestant canon and the books that are traditionally used by Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians (called "Apocryphal" or "Deuterocanonical" books).Total of 73 books.In standard NRSV editions, the "Apocryphal" or "Deuterocanonical" books are included in its own section after the Old Testament books, and the Catholic edition of the NRSV includes those books in the Old Testament in the order defined by the Roman Catholic church.
When Marcion of Sinope (c 85-160 CE) read the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, he could not understand how the vengeful, judgemental and angry God of the Old Testament could be the same as the God of Jesus in the NewTestament. Read literally, and without the benefit of any glosses, he found so much of the Bible to be so objectionable that he decided it could not possibly be God's Word. So first he rejected the Old Testament in its entirety. Then he set about purging the New Testament of its many allusions to the Old Testament, which he presumed had been incorporated by biased editors. Marcion's Bible retained ten of Paul's letters, with the texts of Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians (which Marcion knew as Laodiceans), Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians 'corrected'. Along with an amended Gospel of Luke, they became the Marcionite Bible. Marcion's lasting impact on the modern Church was the development of the New Testament. By developing his own canon, he forced the established Church to decide what books it considered to be scripture and to develop its own canon, the New Testament.
The whole Bible contains the teachings of Jesus, since it is His word. Prophecies about His life are also found throughout the book. The main accounts of His life and teachings, however, are found in the gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
This depends on what you believe about the Bible. Christians believe the Bible is God's word, God's communication with mankind. If you are a Christian the best way to explain the Bible to your child is to start at the beginning. The Bible reveals to us who God is, what God is like, His character, His attributes, His relationship to mankind. God has revealed Himself to us within the context of the historical events recorded in the scriptures. If you are not a Christian the you can explain the Bible as a history book ANOTHER ANSWER: A parent begins by studying and knowing the Bible, himself. Then, he may be able to teach his child that the Bible is "Truth" (John 17:17)... and that only God opens up that Truth to a "contrite and humble heart" (Isa. 66:2). And then finish up by being a "living example" of that Truth through his own actions that His child can see... and hopefully emulate in his life.