Why do Catholics get their own Bible?

[Adalia]

I went Bible searching and I found out that there are Catholic editions of the bible. My question is, "What makes up so special?" What's different about it? If the bible is God's word, then why do we get "special words" so to speak? Do most Catholics follow this bible? Thanks for your help!

 

[nyj]

I went Bible searching and I found out that there are Catholic editions of the bible. My question is, "What makes up so special?" What's different about it? If the bible is God's word, then why do we get "special words" so to speak? Do most Catholics follow this bible? Thanks for your help!

The Catholic Bible contains the Deuterocanon, which has been removed from Protestant versions. The Catholic Church has always considered these books as Scripture (divinely inspired).

The Deuterocanon contains the following books: Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and portions of Esther and Daniel.

 

[Rising_Suns]

Here is something I wrote a while back regarding the differences between the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible;
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12. The Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible
As you may already be aware, Catholic Bibles contain seven Old Testament books that Protestant Bibles do not have. This is because Protestants use the Jewish Old Testament canon, while Catholics use the Greek Old Testament canon. These seven Old Testament books are known as the Deuterocanonicals (often incorrectly labeled in Protestant circles as the “Apocrypha”), and with the exception of these books, both Catholic and Protestant Bibles are the same.

So where did this difference come from? Why is there this discrepancy? Put simply, the Greek canon is the canon that was widely accepted by the Apostles and the early church. It wasn’t until roughly 90 A.D.[1][6] when the Jewish cannon was created for the Jewish people (who, lets not forget, denied the divinity of Jesus Christ), and it is this canon which the Protestant reformers chose to adopt into their Bibles in the 16th century. But prior to the reformation, every Bible contained the seven deuterocanonicals found in the original Greek canon, and it is this same canon that the Catholic Church has used, and continues to use today.

http://www.christianforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=13742282#_ftnref1

 

[BAChristian]

In short, we put the Bible together. So it's not as though we have our own little version.

When certain groups within history started taking things out of the Bible, that's when some different versions of the Bible started to surface.

 

[Wiffey]

Catholics and Orthodox use bibles that include more books ("the apocrypha") that reform-minded Protestants threw out 500 years ago. These books, which had been part of the canon of Holy Scripture agreed on by Christians for 1500 years, were purged because they contained a view of the Church that did not support Protestant theological innovations. So the reformers eliminated them.




[I hope I am not overstepping by replying to this question.]

 

[Dominus Fidelis]

The title of this thread should be: Why does everyone else get their own Bible?

 

[Adalia]

Thank you for your answers!

 

[Carrye]

There also tend to be specifically Protestant or Catholic translations of certain ecclesiastical words.