Bible Question: It's true every Pastor baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But I do'n understand why there is more books in Catholic? |
Bible Answer: Emanuel, The Catholic Church uses the Old Testament of the Septuagint, the Old Testament used by the Greek speaking Jews dispersed throuhout the Roman Empire of Jesus' time. It was the Old Testament used by the early Church. Protestant Bibles use the Canon established by the Jews of Palestine which was set about 90-100 A.D. in Jamnia, Pelestine where a school of Jewish scholars was centered. They used a variety of tests for inclusion, but primarily nothing after the time of Ezra and the establishment of the second Temple and only books written in Hebrew. The Septuagint contains some later books and portions of other books that were in Greek. The original King James Bible of 1611 included the disputed books in a separate section as do some Protestant Bibles published today. Those books grouped under the heading of Apocrypha. Catholics call them the Dueterocanonicals and the other non disputed books the Protocanonicals. Emmaus |