Was James the first Catholic or protestant?

Answer 1

Catholic definitely, the Catholic religion was made by Jesus; it used to be where there was only a Catholic religion. But people would be in Church and pick off little things that they didn't like about the Catholic religion so they decided to start there own Church with everything but the thing or things they didn't like that the Catholic church did.

Roman Catholic AnswerAs noted above, Catholicism was founded by Our Blessed Lord when He hung dead on the cross, and confirmed fifty days later with the arrival of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. Our Blessed Lord said that He would be with His Church all days until the end of the world, He personally guaranteed it. Protestants begin to start their own churches, which we call ecclesial communities, as they do not have a valid priesthood or sacraments, fifteen centuries later. In the early twenty-first century there are not over 30,000 DIFFERENT protestant communities, all disagreeing with the Church and with each other.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic AnswerThere was not an "official" Catholic Bible until the fourth century, when Pope St. Damasas asked St. Jerome to produce the Vulgate. Before that it was just different Old Latin translations, and various manuscripts in Greek. The King James Version wasn't produced until the sixteenth century, so timewise, it is behind by about a millennium and a half.

The Bible has a long and interesting history. The Bible used by Jesus and the Apostles was the Septuagint. This was a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament). It contained all the books of the Bible that are found in modern Catholic Bibles. The Jews of the first century used many different "Bibles". They were not bound in books as we know today. The Sadducee's rejected all but the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). The Septuagint was the widest used Bible during that time. Many years after Jesus' death and resurrection, the Jews met and decided to standardize the Hebrew Scriptures. The disallowed any book that they did not have a Hebrew copy of. These would be the books that were removed from the Bible by the Protestants in the sixteenth century. We now have the original Hebrew of most of those books.

Anyway, the original New Testament was in Greek, and the entire Bible was translated into Latin as this was the standard language of the Empire. Later, St. Jerome was commissioned by the Vatican to produce a standard, good Latin translation, this is what is known as the Vulgate. This was the translation used by all Christians until the sixteenth century. At that time, there was a movement to have translations in the common tongue, as the printing press had just been invented and people wanted to read it themselves.

The Authorized Version (the King James Version) as produced by translators under King James I of England for the Anglican Church. In addition to numerous errors, it also did not contain the Deuterocanonical books that St. Jerome had objected to as there was no Hebrew Version of them. (Please note that St. Jerome, obedient to the Holy Father, did include all of them in his Bible)

About the time of the Authorized Version, there was a translation for Catholics called the Douay-Rheims version (from the name of the two colleges that translated it - Douay did the New Testament, Rheims did the Old Testament).

Recently, the Holy Father commissioned a revised Vulgate Version in Latin, this is the "official" text of the Bible for Catholics, which is why the readings at Mass can not be found in any particular translation on the market right now.

from Radio Replies, by Fathers Rumble and Carty, 1942

560. To whom am I indebted for my English Bible?

You are indebted to many collaborators. Between 1525 and 1536 William Tindal translated into English various Greek and Latin copes of the Bible which had been made by Catholic monks, copies which could be traced back to the original Scriptures. Cromwell was not satisfied with Tindale's translation, so commissioned Miles Coverdale to make a new one. Coverdale used and perfected to some extent Tindale's version, and published the "Great Bible" in 1539. Not satisfied with this, a committee of Anglican Bishops revised it, and in 1568 published what is know as the "Bishops' Bible.) This was also faulty, and King James 1st of England ordered a new revision. Taking as their basis the Bishop's Bible, a committee of 47 revisers whose names are not know produced what is known as the "Authorized Version" in 1611. In 1881 a new revised version was published, correcting some 5,000 mistakes in the Authorized Version. Further revision of this "Revised Version" is being demanded. Thus you owe your English Bible to many unknown revisers, the Bishops of 1568, Miles coverdale 1539, Tindale 1525, Monastic copyists through the ages, and thence to the originals.

Answer 3

James I of England was Protestant not Catholic.

Answer 4

protestant im sure!!

Answer 5

King James was a Protestant.

Answer 6

Protestant