Does the Catholic Bible have both Old and New Testaments?

Answer 1

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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.

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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.

Answer 2

Yes. The Catholic bible does have a New Testament. The main difference between the Catholic Bible and most Protestant Bibles, is that the Catholic Bible contains Old Testament books that are not in the other Bibles. These are known as deutero-canonical books because they do not have the same standing as the canonical books.

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Catholic AnswerNo, actually, the New Testament came from the Catholic Church, you have your question reversed. The New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant contained in the Old Testament. It was written by members of the Catholic Church during the first hundred and twenty years, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, after Our Blessed Lord ascended into heaven. The New Testament as we have it today was approved by the Council of Rome in the late fourth century, the Council of Trent repeated the Decrees of Rome 1,100 years later. The New Testament, thus, is the Catholic religion's ancient preaching of the Gospel, it is the words of God, in God's own Words. The Church teaches that The Bible is inerrant, and to be venerated as we venerate the Body of Our Blessed Lord. The Deuterocanonical books of the New Testament: Hebrews, James, II Peter, II and III John, Revelation, and Mark 16:9-20 are every bit as canonical as the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Deuterocanonical means "second canon" not less canonical.

Answer 3

Of course, Catholics believe in the New Testament.