why was it nessicary for the Catholic church to change some of the scriptures in the old testiment?

The Catholic Church did not change, add or remove any Old Testament Scriptures.

Protestants have fully accepted each and every one of the 27 books that the Holy Spirit inspired Catholics to select for the New Testament over 1,500 years ago..

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

The Christian Church filled with the Holy Spirit did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.

The books that were removed supported such things as

• Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)

• Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)

• Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)

• Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)

The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

The answer is that we did not. I assume you are referring to the seven extra books in the catholic old testament canon. In the time of Jesus there was not a set number of books that the Jews regarded as inspired, depending on where in the world the Jews would be the number of books would vary a bit. The number of books that we find in the Catholic bible is called the number found in the septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures. It is a greek tanslation of the Hebrew bible set down by Jewish scholars in the 3 century BC, in Alexandria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint#Creation_o...

The books that we find in the protestant bibles are found in Jewish scripture after Christs death and resurrection, but we can find the septuagint books used by the apostles and by the early Christians alike.

A better question is why did the protestant reformers find it necessary to take books out the bible that had been there since before the birth of Christ?

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So you've seen the original writings have you? You've been in the Vatican Archives huh? You have scrolls from the 1st Century? From BEFORE? Do you?

You don't have the fist clue what you're talking about. The Catholic Church brought the Bible to mankind to spread the Gospel message. That message is now everywhere. Quit looking for reasons not to live like a Christian, quit looking for reasons and get a shred of faith.

Why do we use the word "servant" instead of "slave" as the original Jewish writings said when Jesus told men to slavishly devote their lives to obedience to God? It sounded better? It left the door open to still maintain slavery? Who knows. It doesn't change the Gospel message. Semantics and syntax are details for experts, not for you and I. You will never change Christianity, so you can either choose to follow or to spread division. Obey or dissent. No one is oppressing you, so just take a stand. Hot or cold. Not lukewarm.

It's up to you scooter.

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I don´t know if the Catholic Church is responsible for doing what you say in your question. It may have been a problem with translation from Hebrew to Greek, Latin or whatever other languages it was translated into. Now, for the protestants here, There are over 200 different denominations each with their bible interpretations, belief systems etc. The Catholic Church, the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches have a valid priesthood dating back two thousand years. Their theology is basically the same. Two differences, the later two do not recognize the Pope, and they pray in Russian or Greek. They are schismatic churches.

It is necessary and testament and NO, the Catholic Church did NOT change any of the Old Testament.

Bigotry against the Catholic Church has become sport in the USA.

The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.'

The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.

the countless techniques we do issues have replaced however the Church maintains to instruct what replace into taught by using the Apostles who gained it from Christ has no longer replaced nor can it ever get replaced because of fact Gods observe is eternal.

Simply put, they wanted the Bible to fit in with their dogma.

For example, the doctrine of purgatory is found nowhere else in the Bible except in the books they added.

I was raised a Catholic. While I do not hate them and I am not a Catholic-basher, I know what they believe. Both of my parents are still devout Catholics.

I am not. I am of the opinion that there is serious, soul-damning error in that religion.

No offense intended to anyone reading this, but what I want to know is, after reading the history of the abuses of this religion why anyone would want to remain in it?

I am currently reading a book by a Catholic historian about Pope Pius XII. It is entitled "Hitler's Pope" by John Cornwell. The author's intention was to exonerate this pope for the bad reputation the church gained during WWII of keeping silent about the Final Solution (extermination of Jews).

During his research he realized that the information he uncovered actually brought more condemnation on Pius XII.

Historically, the Catholic church hated the Jews and believed that any persecution they received was deserved.

So why wouldn't they reject anything Jewish?

They didn't.

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Alzo: NONE of that has anything to do with changing the Old Testament scriptures.

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Likewise, Gyrine. None of that has anything to do with changing the scriptures.

To you both, while the Catholic church PRACTICES some non-scriptural things, they did not re-write the Bible.

The catholic cult changes Old Testament scriptures and make up nonsense doctrines because Satan has always been the god of catholicism.

Over the centuries, the Roman Catholic Cult has developed many nonsense doctrines that are not in the True Christian Bible. Here is a catalog of Rome’s unscriptural doctrines and dates of their inception:

1. Prayers for the dead – 300 A.D.

2. Sign of the Cross – 310 A.D.

3. Wax votive candles – 320 A.D.

4. Veneration of saints and angels – 375 A.D.

5. Mary declared “Mother of God” – 431 A.D.

6. Priests begin to wear vestments – 500 A.D.

7. Worship in Latin – 600 A.D.

8. Boniface III made first Pope – 607 A.D.

9. Temporal power of the papacy granted by Phocas – 610 A.D.

10. Feast days in honor of Mary – 650 A.D.

11. Kissing the pope’s feet – 709 A.D.

12. Temporal power of the papacy confirmed – 750 A.D.

13. Worshiping images and relics – 786 A.D.

14. Adoration of Mary, saints, images, and relics legalized by 2nd Council of Nicea – 788 A.D.

15. Use of "holy water" begun – 850 A.D.

16. Veneration of St. Joseph – 890 A.D.

17. Baptism of bells – 965 A.D.

18. Canonization of dead saints – 995 A.D.

19. Fasting on Fridays and Lent – 998 A.D.

20. Rosary beads – 1090 A.D.

21. Pope Boniface VII decrees celibacy of priests – 1097 A.D.

22. The Inquisition – 1184 A.D.

23. Sales of Indulgences – 1190 A.D.

24. Transubstantiation of the wafer – 1215 A.D.

25. Confession to a priest – 1215 A.D.

26. Adoration of the host (Wafer God) – 1220 A.D.

27. Bible forbidden and placed on index of forbidden books by the Council of Valencia – 1229 A.D.

28. Red hats for Cardinals – 1245 A.D.

29. Feast of Corpus Christi – 1264 A.D.

30. The Miraculous scapular – 1287 A.D.

31. Roman church as the only true church – 1303 A.D.

32. Cup forbidden to laity as Communion – 1415 A.D.

33. Doctrine of purgatory decreed by the Council of Florence – 1439 A.D.

34. Doctrine of the seven sacraments – 1439 A.D.

35. The Ave Maria approved – 1508 A.D.

36. Jesuit Order founded – 1534 A.D.

33. Tradition granted equal authority to the Bible – 1545 A.D.

34. Justification by works and not by faith alone – 1545 A.D.

35. Creed of Pope Plus IV makes all the unscriptural doctrines of the Council of Trent binding – 1560 A.D.

36. Immaculate Conception of Mary – 1854 A.D.

37. Syllabus of Errors proclaimed – 1864 A.D.

38. Papal infallibility Declared – 1870 A.D.

39. Papal decree on mixed marriages – all marriages not celebrated by Roman priest declared null and void –

1908 A.D.

40. Pope reaffirms Mary as Mother of God – 1931 A.D.

41. Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Pope Pius – 1950 A.D.

42. Mary proclaimed "Mother of the Church" – 1965 A.D.

The Catholic Cult is not a Christian church. It is a satanic apostate cult known in the Book of Revelation as “The Great Whore of Babylon” and as “The False Prophet”.

Satan is the current god of this evil world and his throne is located in the Vatican.