Catholic Bible vs King James Bible
The difference between Catholic Bible and King James Bible is one interesting, as well as important, topic one comes across when looking at bibles. The Holy Word every Christian should know about is found in the Bible. Because of this, every individual who follows the Christian faith should have access to the Bible. This is not hard since there are a lot of bibles that are easily accessible for everybody today. However, the large number of variations of the Bible makes it quite confusing for most people as to which one to choose and read. Two of the most popular ones are the Catholic Bible and the King James Bible.
What is Catholic Bible?
The Catholic Bible stands out in the crowd of the Holy Scriptures variations because it is the only bible that has added books from the Old Testament. These books are not found in other translations of the Bible.
In the Catholic Bible, one can find the books called Apocrypha, also referred to as the Deutercanonicals, which include Tobit, Maccabees I and II, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch. Although the Jews did not preserve these books, the Christians did as they recognize the books’ spiritual value. While the Jews and the Protestants do not consider the books as a part of the Holy Scripture, the Catholics value them as such and, in the 16th century, have made the books an official part of the Scripture at the Council of Trent.
Even Jerome and Augustine, two of the most popular Catholic writers before the fall of the Roman Empire, debated over the value of the Apocrypha. Augustine believed in the spiritual value of the books while Jerome did not. Jerome did much of the translation of the Old and New Testaments from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. His side was favored at that time.
What is King James Bible?
The Authorized King James Version, on the other hand, is the Christian Bible translation penned by the Church of England in 1611. This is the third official English translation of the Bible and was conceived due to issues against the two earlier translations. King James I of England summoned the Hampton Court Conference to create this version of the Bible.
At first, the King James Version included all of the books from the Old and New Testament as well as the Apocrypha. Over time, however, the books of Apocrypha were eliminated from the King James Bible. The most modern King James Version does not have the Apocrypha in it.
Title page and dedication from a 1612-1613 King James Bible
Also, the King James Bible is written in Old English. In this Bible, there is also the obvious distinction between the second person singular and the second person plural. Knowing the difference between thou and you as well as thou and thee is important when using this version of the Holy Scripture. This makes it hard for someone who has been brought up without knowledge of Old English to understand the King James Bible.
What is the difference between Catholic Bible and King James Bible?
• Catholic Bible is the book followed by the Catholics, or accepted as the Holy Scripture by the Catholics. King James Bible is the Protestant bible.
• One remarkable difference between Catholic Bible and King James Bible is the content. Originally, the King James Bible as well as Catholic Bible had the books from Old Testaments, which are known as the Apocrypha or the Deutercanonicals. However, later versions of the King James Bible do not have these books as the bible publishers considered them less important. As a result, Catholic Bible has Apocrypha while King James Bible does not.
• The biggest difference between Catholic Bible and King James Bible lies largely on the printed words themselves. The King James Version has been known for centuries all throughout the world as the one that makes use of what is considered as the Old English language. On the contrary, the Catholic Bible is written in the modern day English.
Knowing about what the two versions of the Holy Scripture have to offer is a great help in determining which one to get a hold of. It also helps to ask other people who share one’s faith and beliefs in choosing the one among the different variations of the Bible.
Images Courtesy: Title page and dedication from a 1612-1613 King James Bible via Wikicommons (Public Domain)
As any examination of history will show very clearly, the deuterocanonical books were part of the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures at the time of Jesus, which was considered by the ancient world a superb translation from the original Hebrew. From the beginning, the Septuagint was the version of the Hebrew Scriptures used by the Church in the Greek-speaking world, because it was the version used by Jews in the Greek speaking world. Fagments of several Deuterocanonical books in Hebrew and Aramaic were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran. In AD 90-100 a Jewish council which rejected the Christian New Testament Scriptures declared that the Deuteroanonical books were not part of their canonical Scriptures. Among the things that weighed in favor of the Church embracing the Deuterocanonicals at the time that the canon of Scripture both Old and New Testaments was settled (Synod of Hippo, 393), is that the New Testament draws heavily from the Deuterocanonical books (see: http://www.scripturecatholic.com/deuterocanon.html). When Martin Luther split away from the Catholic Church, he not only questioned the Deuterocanonical books (on the basis of their having been defined by Jews in AD 100 as not part of their Scriptures), but at one point Luther even relegated the Epistle of St James, which disagreed with his “sola fide” theology, to “apocryphal” status (see James 2:18). Others in the Reformation movement put it back where it belonged! To sum up, the Deuterocanonicals are actually an integral part of the Christian Bible.
even though I am not a catholic your information is historically accurate. most protestants reject these books just because of their disdain for catholics. the jewish council of jamnia in A.D.90 removed these books and rejected the Septuagint because they were attempting to discredit the Christian movement as a cult. Jesus and the disciples quoted from the Septuagint and for 200 years it had been used and accepted by the jews.
While this article has some very good reasoning for what the differences are; they need to remain independent of who’s side they are taking. Because when an article tries to draw a parallel between 2 different religions quoting the wrong dates when the scriptures were accepted and approved does not show a good reflection of truth. Protestants have always stated that Catholics created and added books. Reality is the books were there when the church was forming we didn’t create or add anything. Our Church accepted them as universal which means all catholic churches no matter where they were would accept these books as part of our faith. Protestants don’t have a central group that provides as the authoritarian on what they all believe as a group. But the council took place back in 645 A.D. or there abouts not in the 16th century. So this is a big difference when someone says we added. We can’t add something if our Church and it’s books were established before all other protestant faiths were born. Only Jews might say that but even they had them and left them out of their future printings and we chose to keep them. This is a big difference and protestants need to learn their true history before condemning anyone of doing wrong things with their Scripture.
One big difference is Exodus Chapter 11 and the 10 Commandments. The Catholic Bible has changed and deleted parts of the the 4th Commandment. The Cathoolic Bible 10 Commandments ar different from not only the King James English translation, but also the original Aramic, Hebrew, and Greek. The King James is a 16th Century English translation of the Hebrew and Greek Bible.
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What is the big difference in Exodus Chapter 11?
The Catholic religion has not changed or added anything. It was the other Christian religions that have modified and removed books. I wanted to make sure everyone got that straight.
You falsely state that the Catholic church “has not changed or added anything. It was the other Christian religions that have modified and removed books.” You are ignoring the FACT that the Catholic church has changed the 10 Commandments of God. Anyone can see the changes made by the Catholic churchimmediately by comparing a Catholic Bible to a “Protestant” Bible.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to say. Please enlighten me with your understanding of Catholics changing a Commandment of which I believe are ten. However there’s one given by Jesus, part of the Trinity, that says to love God first and others as you do yourself. It’s known as “The Great Commandment “. Many Protestant people question prayer that is wrote. I’m telling you that the Our Father is The Only prayer given to us when Jesus himself answered the apostles when they asked Him how to pray.
Christ never queried any of the Jewish bible contribution in his day if He needed to He would have this is sufficient authority an test of Scripture what the Jews did a few years later does not detract from Christ’s position if the Holy Spirit allows you check out the 90 book Hebrew Bible
Michael
Je Most Certainly Did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was no greater obstacle to me coming to Christ than the Protestant religion. One strawman arguement after another and rampant misinformation. Once you reject the Church Our Lord established how long until you reject him? Antitheism is just another denomination and the logical conclusion to what Luther began. Is a multitude of churches that keeps splitting up really good fruit? Is it really a true vine?
Don’t beliven anything I have written. Read the Church fathers and about what Luther spent his last days focused on and what his last sermon was.
He Most Certainly Did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!