Why are Protestant and Catholic Bibles different? —Dana. The Protestant Bible, of which the NIV is one version, is seven books shorter than the Bible used by Roman Catholics.

In the meantime, why not dust off that Catholic Bible as well and read some more in John – or one of the other Gospels, or Acts, or, really, anything in there.

Protestant and Roman Catholic Bibles have historically evolved like two separate streams that shift course from time to time but never quite join. The best-known Protestant translations of ...

The Catholic OT Canon (also the numbering of the Psalms) came from the ancient Greek Septuagint Bible. Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon ...

Since then, all Protestant groups that came to, or were founded in America have used Bibles without the Apocrypha. Catholic bibles, however, have not varied since the original canon was approved ...

Meaning that the Catholic Bible contains 73 books in total, as opposed to the Protestant’s 66 books which refuses them. It is from these books of Deuterocanonical scripture that Catholics ...

In France and Germany, Protestant and Catholic scholars have jointly begun work on new translations of the New Testament; Catholics are working on an interdenominational Bible now being edited by ...

Many Protestants are unaware that the Bible used in Catholic churches contains books not found in Protestant Bibles -- namely, the books of the apocrypha. (The word comes from a Greek term that ...

A post shared on X claims that 14 books were removed from the Bible in 1684. Verdict: False The “apocrypha” is still present in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. Protestant Bibles have gradually ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For more than 50 years, a popular Protestant Bible study has been leading Catholics away from the Church. Three new Catholic Bible-study programs hope to change that.