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Jotobo
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So I have about a dozen of them and will only keep two (sentimental reasons) now that I am becoming Catholic. Where can I sell or give them away?
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Rascalking
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There may be a way you could donate them to someone? Troops? Another church?
Whatever you do, I try to remember it’s still a holy book. It deserves respect. (Not saying you wouldn’t respect it…
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Welcome home my friend!
Whatever you do, I try to remember it’s still a holy book. It deserves respect. (Not saying you wouldn’t respect it…
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Agape_Thom
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Just a suggestion. You may have a jail or prison near you. If so, if the Bibles are in good condition, un-marked and not personalized, contact the protestant chaplain there. They will be put to good use.
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hellopeople
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Thats a good one. You could be responsible for the turn around of a criminal.
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Julian0404
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Recognize now that the Bibles from your protestant way are lacking 6 books which contain the truth and which were intentionally removed from those bibles. Why then provide those incomplete Bibles to others?
Box them and keep them or use them for teaching others on your road of faith.
Box them and keep them or use them for teaching others on your road of faith.
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hellopeople
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Although these Bibles could be considered incomplete, the great majority of the Bible is still the same.
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Bob_Crowley
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Second hand bookshop.
Protestant church.
Op-shop.
You might find it useful to keep a couple more for comparism reasons.
Even when you become Catholic, it’s my guess you won’t spend a lot of time reading the seven Apocryphal books. But if you’re going to make a big deal out of the issue, you’ll need to know them quite well. Personally I don’t find them all that interesting in most cases.
Tobit gives me the impression of being a Jewish yarn, the sort of thing you’d say around a camp-fire.
Judith is a bit like Esther, in that there is a female heroine who saves Israel. I also find it a bit too incredible to be true.
1 & 2 Maccabees are worth reading for historical value, although I find the history in them so violent and repetitive it is depressing.
Wisdom of Solomon and Sirach are a sort of re-hash of ancient Hebrew proverbs and to a lesser extent psalms.
Baruch is another warning to the Israelites, a la Jeremiah.
As a former Protestant, and my bias might be coming through here, I don’t get quite the same “spiritual” feel when I read the Apocryphal books as I do with the rest. But that might just be me.
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Jotobo
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Not only that but the Protestant Bibles tend to push their “agenda” in many verses throughout the bible.
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Joe_Kelley
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Someone left a King James in the pamphlet rack at church. The family across the street from me [non-Catholic] is quite devote and homeschooling their children. They were grateful for an extra bible.
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Agape_Thom
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Putting aside that there are different translations, “Protestant” and “Catholic” Bibles are essentialy the same. The major difference is the number of books in each. The 66 books that are in both are the same. How then do “Protestant” Bibles push “their agenda”?
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crazzeto
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Your answer here depends upon which version of the bible we’re talking about here, some go quite far in their attempts to make the bible more friendly to protestant beliefs. Others, are very good and mainly only lacking in the number of books, and inclusion of certain protestant standards (highly favord instead of more accurate full of grace, inclusion of doxology in Lords prayer when good scholar ship suggests that was an accidental transcription error and a few other things).
So the answer here depends upon the bible, if the OP feels like his bibles go pretty far in pushing proestant doctrin, then maybe it’s one of the weaker translations?
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CalCatholic
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Donate them to the Salvation Army.
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empacae
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I found my NAB in a Sally Ann. Bought it for 25 cents. Best quarter I ever spent
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JPCalifornia
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I would say give then to me but you would not know where to do so. Look for CCMTB in the internet and say that they are for JP. I would love to have them. I don’t care what version, color or size. If that is too hard, take them to any Calvary Chapel and for sure a New Born Christian will be glad to take them of your hands. God Bless.
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Joe_Kelley
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Great idea. I am sure that they have ample need for them in their work with the poor.
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thomas_jd
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Throw them out. Once altered they are incomplete and usually heretical.
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hellopeople
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It is the Bible. What would you say if I had just a book of the 4 gospels? Would you spit on it because it was incomplete?
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empacae
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I remember back in my public school days in the 70’s the Gideons’s use to come to the school to hand out Bibles. I remember when we got back to class flipping through it and exclaiming, “Where’s the rest of it?!?!?” (New testament with Psalms and Proverbs. And all my friends and classmates staring at me (not knowing what was suppose to be in it, probably the first time they had even seen a Bible) and the helpless look on the teacher’s face (I guess because she wan’t allowed to comment on it). But I still have that wee red Bible in a night table (I don’t read it, because the text is too small). And days like that will never be seen again in PS for sure.
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crazzeto
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If it was being marketed as “the bible” i.e. full and complete, then I would personally avoid it. What you’re talking about are typically marketed as “Douay Rheims new testament” or “RSV-CE Gosples”. They are not marketed as bibles. Anything marketed as a bible, should be fully complete, 73 books.
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IronHammer
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Hahaha! I was in fifth grade when somebody came to class and handed them out to us. I read the title “New Testament” and blurted out, “There’s a new bible?!!”. I was such a pagan.
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