The 40 Questions Most Frequently Asked
About The Catholic Church
By Non-Catholics
2. Oldest Bibles?
Which is older, the Catholic or non-Catholic version of the Bible?
The Catholic version is more than 1000 years older than any non-Catholic version.
| (a) |
The source of the Catholic version (which contains the seven missing books) is called the
"Septuagint Version," and dates to 280 B.C., and was the one used by Christ and the Apostles. The
source of the non-Catholic version (the Massoretic Text) did not come into existence until about
1000 years later. |
| (b) |
The canon, or official list of books, was established by the Council of Carthage in 397. It was
more than a thousand years later (1534) that the first non-Catholic Bible, the Lutheran, came into
existence as a complete Old and New Testament. |
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