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jane01
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Is there a BIG diffenece in a Catholic Bible and a King James Bible?
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Salvatore123
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Uh . . . yes and no. 
Yes, if you look to a KJV that has been published in the last 100 or so years.
Not so much if you picked up a facsimile copy of a KJV that was published around 1611, as it pretty much had all of the books Catholics refer to as “deuterocanonicals”.
The problem(s) with the KJV (although the writing is quite beautiful in many places) is that you will never know for certain which KJV bible you are looking at used as its source.
Protestants began to make many, many changes to the Latin Vugate begin around the time of Henry VIII, and especially so during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. 7 books and parts of others were removed from the Bible that had existed in the west for 1500 years. In addition to the removals, many subtle verses were changed so that verses that had great meaning in Catholic dogma and doctrine, suddenly came to be interpreted as meaning something entirely different.
If you are Catholic, no reason exists (except for serious biblical study) for you to not obtain a “comparative” bible. With the following - amazon.com/Catholic-Comparative-New-Testament-Douay-Rheims/dp/019528299X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305520150&sr=8-1 - you would get 7 different translations of the New Testament. That way, you would not have to wonder or guess how one translation is different from another. The comparisons would be all in one book.
I am beginning to recommend to people who are “new” to bible reading, comparative bibles more and more because of how much they have to offer.
If you want an old testament comparative bible (I always recommend that people who are beginning to read the bible, start first with the NT - the Gospels and Acts, and then the Pauline letters - before starting with the OT), those are out there as well.
I am not saying the NT is “better” than the OT. I simply believe that as a Christian, I would want to read what Christ had to say and how he died, rather than start with more of an historical account of God’s dealings with the chosen people.
P.S. - if you bought the book I referenced above, along with this one - amazon.com/Contemporary-Parallel-New-Testament-International/dp/0195281365/ref=pd_sim_b_1 - you would have the following different translations of every NT book (as all Christianity has the same 27 NT books in its NT canon):
Yes, if you look to a KJV that has been published in the last 100 or so years.
Not so much if you picked up a facsimile copy of a KJV that was published around 1611, as it pretty much had all of the books Catholics refer to as “deuterocanonicals”.
The problem(s) with the KJV (although the writing is quite beautiful in many places) is that you will never know for certain which KJV bible you are looking at used as its source.
Protestants began to make many, many changes to the Latin Vugate begin around the time of Henry VIII, and especially so during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. 7 books and parts of others were removed from the Bible that had existed in the west for 1500 years. In addition to the removals, many subtle verses were changed so that verses that had great meaning in Catholic dogma and doctrine, suddenly came to be interpreted as meaning something entirely different.
If you are Catholic, no reason exists (except for serious biblical study) for you to not obtain a “comparative” bible. With the following - amazon.com/Catholic-Comparative-New-Testament-Douay-Rheims/dp/019528299X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305520150&sr=8-1 - you would get 7 different translations of the New Testament. That way, you would not have to wonder or guess how one translation is different from another. The comparisons would be all in one book.
I am beginning to recommend to people who are “new” to bible reading, comparative bibles more and more because of how much they have to offer.
If you want an old testament comparative bible (I always recommend that people who are beginning to read the bible, start first with the NT - the Gospels and Acts, and then the Pauline letters - before starting with the OT), those are out there as well.
I am not saying the NT is “better” than the OT. I simply believe that as a Christian, I would want to read what Christ had to say and how he died, rather than start with more of an historical account of God’s dealings with the chosen people.
P.S. - if you bought the book I referenced above, along with this one - amazon.com/Contemporary-Parallel-New-Testament-International/dp/0195281365/ref=pd_sim_b_1 - you would have the following different translations of every NT book (as all Christianity has the same 27 NT books in its NT canon):
- King James
- New American Standard
- New Century
- Contemporary English
- New International
- New Living
- New King James
- The Message
- New American Bible
- Revised Standard Version - Catholic Version
- New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Version
- Jerusalem Bible
- New Jerusalem
- Douay-Rheims
- Good News Translation
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