The New Testament was written by the apostles and disciples. The Catholic Church later (The Bible didn't come around for a while after Christ died) viewed what really were documents and letters and determined which ones were written in inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Old Testament was the Jews "bible".
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The New Testament was taken from the Scriptures which were read at Mass, and determined at the Council of Rome and promulagated by Pope Damascus I in A.D. 382. (see link below)
The Protestant Bible has no specific name associated with it, other than "the Bible" or "the Holy Bible." The distinction is usually in the content; the Protestant Bible omits the Apocrypha and the Deuterocanonical books usually included in Roman Catholic texts. Both Catholic and Protestant Bibles come in a wide variety of translations.
The term 'catholic' in this sense means 'universal.' In that the Bible is worldwide, it Is catholic. This has nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
the Book of Psalms. It's in the Old Testament.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Gospels in the Bible are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The "Catholic Bible" is the Bible as used by the Church for two millenium.
The New Jerusalem Bible is Catholic.
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I recommend the Ignatius Catholic Bible, RSV Second Catholic Edition. Many Catholic scholars and theologians use this Bible and reference from it, however it is easy to read and understand
Roman Catholic AnswerOf course not! There is only one Bible, commonly referred to as the Holy Bible.
THe Gideon International Bible is most certainly not a Bible approved by the Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic AnswerYou are operating with a mistaken assumption. The Catholic Church wrote the Bible, the Catholic Church decided which books were canonical (included in the Bible), and the Catholic Church has conserved the Bible through the centuries. The only ones who changed any Scriptures in the Bible are the protestants, who, after fifteen centuries of a Bible preserved by the Catholic Church came along and threw books out of the Bible, and changed the meanings of books they would not throw out.
Roman Catholic AnswerYes, the Bible contains the book of Ruth.
The word "catholic" does not appear anywhere in the bible.