Wrong Bible?

[Annabelle_Marie]

The thread title is really only is jest.

I just recently came back to the Catholic Church. So, I’ve been reading my Catholic Bible…currently I’m reading Acts. I’ll read it and it seems like an entirely different bible…I’ve even dug out my Protestant bible to compare…same bible word for word (at least in Acts). And yet it is entirely different then when I read it a year ago…

Anyone else experience this?

 

[CalCatholic]

What translation is your Catholic Bible?

 

[DCNBILL]

The thread title is really only is jest.

I just recently came back to the Catholic Church. So, I’ve been reading my Catholic Bible…currently I’m reading Acts. I’ll read it and it seems like an entirely different bible…I’ve even dug out my Protestant bible to compare…same bible word for word (at least in Acts). And yet it is entirely different then when I read it a year ago…

Anyone else experience this?

Every time one reads the Word of God they are in a different “place”, time of life, situation, or merely a frame of mind. So God speaks to us from His word in the “place” ect. where we are at the time. It is not the word that changes it is ourselves and God is always speaking to us in the present.

 

[Annabelle_Marie]

Every time one reads the Word of God they are in a different “place”, time of life, situation, or merely a frame of mind. So God speaks to us from His word in the “place” ect. where we are at the time. It is not the word that changes it is ourselves and God is always speaking to us in the present.

Must be–because all the objections I had to the Catholic Church…are gone when I read the bible…and I was sure they were there a year ago. The Holy Spirit must be setting me straight!

 

[Bookcat]

The thread title is really only is jest.

I just recently came back to the Catholic Church. So, I’ve been reading my Catholic Bible…currently I’m reading Acts. I’ll read it and it seems like an entirely different bible…I’ve even dug out my Protestant bible to compare…same bible word for word (at least in Acts). And yet it is entirely different then when I read it a year ago…

Anyone else experience this?

There are various translations…some more thought for thought and some more literal…try the RSV CE

 

[runningdude]

The thread title is really only is jest.

I just recently came back to the Catholic Church. So, I’ve been reading my Catholic Bible…currently I’m reading Acts. I’ll read it and it seems like an entirely different bible…I’ve even dug out my Protestant bible to compare…same bible word for word (at least in Acts). And yet it is entirely different then when I read it a year ago…

Anyone else experience this?

I had a very similar experience. I got involved with a wonderful non-denominational group on my campus. Great worship and camaraderie. However, with a few people we started talking about various differences between Protestants and Catholic beliefs, and one of the things I kept hearing (even before joining these discussions) were that Catholic beliefs were “not biblical”. Naturally, I actually started studying scripture myself to defend various beliefs, and I thought it was going to be an uphill battle, as people showed me snippets that on their face contradicted a teaching. But the more I read, the more I was just floored by the beauty and power of scripture!

 

[Holly3278]

I had a very similar experience. I got involved with a wonderful non-denominational group on my campus. Great worship and camaraderie. However, with a few people we started talking about various differences between Protestants and Catholic beliefs, and one of the things I kept hearing (even before joining these discussions) were that Catholic beliefs were “not biblical”. Naturally, I actually started studying scripture myself to defend various beliefs, and I thought it was going to be an uphill battle, as people showed me snippets that on their face contradicted a teaching. But the more I read, the more I was just floored by the beauty and power of scripture!

Unfortunately the anti-Catholic variety of Protestants typically have a major tendency to take verses way out of context to justify their anti-Catholic opinions which sometimes are rather hateful but most of the time are simply based on ignorance. That said, Protestants do not have the proper authority to interpret the Bible. And finally, Catholicism is most definitely the most Biblical of all the various Christian faiths! A good website to prove this is the following:

scripturecatholic.com/