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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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b192aa  No.797461

I am Catholic but I really enjoy the translation and style of the NIV. Can I just finish that and then read the Apocrypha or are there more drastic changes in there that should make me switcth to like an RSV-2CE?

e7d94d  No.797486

>>797461

I'm not Catholic, but I always thought your own NAB(Re) is very similar in tone to the NIV. Sadly, it's marred by it's notes (which do injustice to Catholic laity.. I'm not just saying it as an outsider).


16d49e  No.797686

It's safer to use the RSVCE or DRA as it's less likely you'll get false understandings.

However the key thing as a Catholic your job isn't to invent your own theology with scripture, we know the truths of the faith through the teaching of the magisterium, not through inventing it by giving it our best guess. Scripture isn't a list of doctrines and moral teachings.

So long as you keep that in mind it's fairly safe to read any, but you are much better off avoiding anything not explicitly Catholic.

The reason is if you are weak in faith, or commit a sin, the fact you've been reading non and possibly anti-Catholic books might give demons something to bring back up and try to pull you away from the faith. There are many misleading things even if you read a Catholic translation as it's so complicated, but another key is seeing what the Church teaches and reading commentaries.

http://www.catholicapologetics.info/scripture/newtestament/Lapide.htm

https://www.ecatholic2000.com/haydock/title.shtml

https://www.ecatholic2000.com/catena/untitled-111.shtml

are some good Catholic commentaries quoting heavily from the Church Fathers.

For some more recent commentaries Scott Hahn has a commentary of the RSVCE that is good (the ignatious bible)

and brant pitre just put out a massive book on the old testament.

https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Introduction-Bible-Old-Testament/dp/1586177222

I'd make sure to be reading a catechism and make sure you are getting good formation in the faith from other sources. Reading spiritual books, saints lives, and things of that sort can make the faith far more concrete and tangible. The lives of the saints are one of the best things for understanding it.

also you should hop on the discord

http://www.catholictreasury.info/books/devout_life/index.php

essential spiritual book for beginners, goes over all the basics and is by a saint.

>>797486

those footnotes are blasphemous to any Christian, yeah no one should read that stuff


86d3a5  No.797718

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>>797461

>Enjoying NIV

>At all

I'm not really autistic regarding translations (there's no actual Orthodox translation in general, and KJV is used generally) but why would anyone like that utter atrocity at all?




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