Why are Catholic and Protestant Bibles different?
Remember, the Old Testament existed long before the coming of Christ. Of all the Old Testament books, the seven in question (Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, 1 and 2, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, and Baruch) were originally written in Greek, unlike the other books, which were originally written in Hebrew. To distance themselves from Christians, the Palestinian Jews deleted from their canon anything not originally written in Hebrew. This caused two different versions of their own Scriptures, depending on where in the world they lived. Outside of Palestine, the Jews spoke and read Greek, and therefore included these Greek books. This version was known as the Septuagint. When the apostles referred to the Old Testament Scriptures, the passages they used came from the Septuagint.Since the Septuagint contains these seven books here in question, it follows logically that Christ and the apostles were aware of them and did not reject them. Now the Bible didn’t just fall out of the sky. The canon (basically,
