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The word Protestant, comes from the word "Protest". They decided that they interpreted the word of God differently and decided that they could still be Christians while changing things that they didn't agree with. They protested the word of God and adjusted it to fit their needs.

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Do Catholics and Protestants use the New Jerusalem Bible?

AnswerThe New Jerusalem Bible was written for Catholics and contains the Catholic deuterocanonical books and sections. There is no reason Protestants should not use this Bible, but they are unlikely to do so.


What was going on with the Bible around the year 1608?

There was a split in the Roman Catholic Church and Protestants arrived.


What are the 7 major books only in Catholic bibles?

Roman Catholic AnswerThe books in the Septuagint translation of the Bible which the protestants removed from their Bible are: TobitJudithadditions to EstherWisdomSirachBaruchadditions to Daniel1 Maccabees2 Maccabees


What Scriptures did the Catholic Church change in the Bible?

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.


What is the difference between the catholic holy bible and the protestan holy bible?

there's no difference in the holy texts only with beliefs about baptism (how old u should be), protestants won't acknowledge His Holiness, the Pope, as head of the church, and protestants don't have rosaries and many ceremonies like chriestings.

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Catholics and Christians Bible?

Roman Catholic AnswerNo difference, Catholic and Christian is the same thing. I imagine that you are asking the difference between a Catholic/Christian Bible and a protestant Bible, which protestants may refer to as a Christian Bible. Protestants have removed a number of books from the Old Testament as they were uncomfortable with not believing things that the Bible said, so they changed the Bible.


Protestant Bible and Catholic Bible which is correct?

the Catholic Bible Actually, both are correct. However, the Protestants threw out a bunch of books of the Bible that did not fit with their teachings that are still recognized by Catholics as canonical. Therefore, the Catholic Bible is 'more correct.'


Do Catholics and Protestants use the New Jerusalem Bible?

AnswerThe New Jerusalem Bible was written for Catholics and contains the Catholic deuterocanonical books and sections. There is no reason Protestants should not use this Bible, but they are unlikely to do so.


Why did the protestants want to reform the catholic church in the 16th century?

They believed that the church rejected the bible


What was going on with the Bible around the year 1608?

There was a split in the Roman Catholic Church and Protestants arrived.


What are the 7 major books only in Catholic bibles?

Roman Catholic AnswerThe books in the Septuagint translation of the Bible which the protestants removed from their Bible are: TobitJudithadditions to EstherWisdomSirachBaruchadditions to Daniel1 Maccabees2 Maccabees


Do Protestants have the same prophets as Catholic?

Roman Catholic AnswerTo the extent that they have the same Old Testament, they have the same "prophets", although the protestants threw out seven books from the Bible, so the prophets in those books, they would not have.


Is 'The Way' English translations of Bible accepted by Catholics and Protestants?

There are both Protestant and Catholic versions available.


Is the Catholic Bible the same as the KJV?

The only difference is that there are a few books that the protestants and Anglican church omitted including the book of Wisdom. and changed some of the words....as a Catholic I belive we should only be reading a Catholic bible.....


Does the Catholic Church approve the reading of NKJV?

No, because the King James version of the Bible does not include all the canonical books of the Catholic Bible and has had many passages revised to suit the beliefs of the Protestants.


Why does the Catholic church accept the Apochrypha?

The Apochrypha has been a part of the Catholic Bible since the earliest days. The question should be 'Why did the Protestants not accept the Apochrypha' when it had been a part of the Bible for 1500 years.


What Scriptures did the Catholic Church change in the Bible?

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.