because they were protesting the books, hence protestants.
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.
The seven "extra" books of the Catholic Bible are called Deuterocanonical books or "Apocrypha" by Protestants. Protestants do not consider these books to be part of the Canon or standard writings of Scripture.These books include:TobitJudithWisdomSirachBaruch1 Maccabees2 MaccabeesThese books are added as a separate section between the Old and New Testaments or as an appendix after the New Testament in Catholic or Eastern Orthodox bibles. Two of these books (Tobit and Sirach) were found among the Dead Sea scrolls, which represent the oldest known copy of biblical works. The book of Enoch is considered religious writing but not part of the biblical canon. This also was found in the Dead Sea scrolls so it still doesn't answer the debate about whether the 7 books are part of canon or not.
1. They only accepted the ones written in Hebrew, seven of them were written in Greek.
The Protestants do not think any books are missing from their Bible.
President Teddy Roosevelt is credited for writing thirty-seven books. These books include 'The Naval War of 1812' and 'Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography.'
There are seven books, unless you include the second series which are the A La Mode books. So there are 9 altogether.
These are books contained in the Catholic canon but not recognized as biblical by the protestants. A list of the books are given in the "related links"
Protestants use a Bible with 39 books in the Old Testament.
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The Protestants and Catholics have mostly the same Bible. Most of the books in it are the same except for the Apocrypha. These are about 6-7 books which Catholics have in their Bible. This is the main difference between the two Bibles.
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.
The books of the Old Testament. Catholic Bibles include passages, and even whole books, added by later Greek authors, which were purged from Jewish Bibles. Protestants followed the Jewish example, and purged the same material.