Bible Question: How and why do Catholic Bibles differ from Christian (protestant) Bibles? I understand that Catholic Bibles have more books than Christian Bibles. If this is true, then why don't Christian Bibles have these books or why do Catholic Bibles have these books? Besides the books difference, what else differs from these two types of Bibles? |
Bible Answer: The Apocrypha are interspersed among the canonical books of the Old Testament in the LXX and Vulgate, but not found in the Hebrew Old Testament. The Jewish people, who produced the Old Testament from the inspiration of God, and Protestants do not consider the Apocrypha canonical. The Roman Catholic Church received the Apocrypha as deuterocanonical at the Council of Trent in 1546. |