Recently, Protestant Bible scholar Wes Huff published a video addressing what he calls the Protestant Bible problem,

or the problem related to Protestant attempts to justify the canon of Scripture apart from authoritative church teaching.

In today's episode, we're going to go through Huff's video and see the problem is still not solved.

So let's take a look.

The church is not the origin of Scripture.

God is.

When I say that Scripture is the sole infallible rule of faith and practice for the Church,

what I'm making there is a statement on the origin of Scripture.

The origin of Scripture is divine.

And to a degree, the Roman Catholic position can agree with

the origin statement, although clearly disagreeing with that being the sole infallible rule.

In so far as Vatican 1 states that these books, the Church holds to be sacred and canonical,

not because she subsequently approved them by her authority,

but because being written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author,

and we're as much committed to the church.

Notice that this quote from Vatican One has an ellipses, which means Huff has not cited the entire passage.

That isn't always bad, but it can be unhelpful if crucial details are left out.

Here's the full passage.

These books, the Church holds to be sacred and canonical, not because she subsequently approved them by her authority

after they had been composed by unaided human skill, nor simply because they contain

revelation without error, but because being written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,

they have God as their author, and were as such committed to the church. The church did not

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