I wondered about how much of a problem it would be so I started a thread here a while back asking if there were any Catholic teachings whose biblical support could be found only in the deuterocanonicals and no one was able to come up with anything.
How many responded to the thread? Purgatory is inferred which is certaily substantial. As well, historical refference and prayer are important.Tobit 12:15
I don’t remember. There is important support for Purgatory in the deuterocanonicals but also in the New Testament. I was looking for any teaching that was found in the deuterocanonicals but nowhere else in Scripture.
Oh, I see. Well I would say that additional teachings are not in the deutero. However as with all things it is wise to have the complete truth, and not just a good portion of it.
I agree. I was just curious.
Another factor is that there are different groups of Protestants, with very different doctrines, so they want a Bible translation that reflects their own tendencies. Hence we have the NIV as well as the RSV/NASB tradition. There is also the American Bible Society, and similar groups, who produce their own versions, not necessarily affiliated with any church as such. Catholics have a more unified approach, and so naturally have fewer different versions.
Interesting that KJV-onlyism has also influenced catholics.
I don’t think this is official Church stance on the matter (that I know of). While I see no reason to buy a King James over a Catholic version, I don’t believe KJV is considered “not a real Bible” or “heretical”. After all, Luther did not write the Bible (although it does not contain the complete truth because of missing books). Remember, no English translation is the original text anyway. Catholic specific translations will use certain wordings that line up more precisely with Church teaching.
As a convert to Catholism I study different Bibles for reference and understanding but if the truth known no translation has come close to the beautiful Elizabethan English of the the King James Bible.I have a catholic friend who has many influential protestant family members/friends. Also, this same catholic friend reads out of a protestant bible instead of a catholic bible. He believes there is no difference and that the protestant and catholic bible are both one in the same, “the bible”.
Searching the internet, it seems opinions vary from one catholic to the next as to why catholics should only read a catholic bible, and why it is okay/not okay for catholics to read primarily from a protestant bible.
There are many opinions my friend has that are very protestant-esque, and I know some of the influences comes from his protestant family, but I’m curious if it also comes from the protestant bible he reads.
In my opinion, I find protestant bibles dangerous since men interpreted specific scripture to fit their personal belief structure.
Can you please shed light on this topic? Is it okay for catholics to own a protestant bible if it is the only bible in their house? Thanks for your help!
s translation of the Bible for many, many years, the New Testament of it too many times to count, As for the Lutherbibels Old Testament, I read it much less, but I did study the Psalms and the Wisdom Writings of the Old Testament (including those that Luther relegated to the Apocrypha) very carefully, indeed.s German is of unimaginable beauty and grandeur, :thumbsup: and a non-German-reading person simply cannot imagine the impact of such strong, ruggèd, but gorgeous prose. The New Testament is not only impressive from a literary standpoint, it is quite literal, very faithful to the Tex*tus Receptus*. Luthers Old Testament, on the other hand, while it has that same beauty, Luther translated it more freely, though not with the wild looseness all too common among 20th and 21st century translators who would displace, if these fools ever could, Luthers own BIble with their revisions of it or with their paltry modern versions. If you love German, *ipso facto* you revere and delight in Luthers prose and poetry.s Bible during several past decades. It is true that some of Luthers biases come through in his translation, e.g. the consistent replacement of the German word for church with the term for congregation. However, the reader adjusts to thinking Church when he sees congregation in Luthers text. German readers, Protestant or Catholic, just used Luthers Bible despite past Church pronouncements, because of its obvious superiority and loveliness, and its only real rival, especially in Switzerland, was Zwinglis liltingly sweet German in that more radical reformers own version (of which I have read the cmplete New Testament twice, with great pleasure). Luthers and Zwinglis German is a precious treasure to German speakers.s and Zwinglis truly monumental translations ever are going to be booted aside by any other German Bible, Catholic or Protestant, so, guys, just get used to it!s Bible daily. Now that I am retired and do not need to "keep up" my German for the sake of my profession (music librarianship, in which German is the Queen Language of musicology and the language of many texts set to imperishably great music), I am letting that language slide away from me. But I still get shivers when I hear the magnificent cadences of Luthers translation as he himself left it for us to savour and to enjoy, and from which to profit spiritually! Those who would condemn Luther`s Bible, refusing to acknowledge the claims of its literary beauty are vulgarians and are lacking in personal culture!.