#12065 Which Books Are in Scripture? - William Albrecht

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

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Questions Covered: 06:35 – Considering scholarship on Jn 8. How do we justify it being in the bible since it’s not in the earliest manuscripts? 13:21 – How does the Church rectify other churches’ canons when they enter into communion? 16:34 – Can you talk about Cyril Lucaris and the canon conflict 19:03 – How do we relate to the oriental canon? 20:42 – What is the council of Nicaea 1 and 2? Could there have been other books that were considered a part of the canon during those councils? 22:23 – Book of Judith. It says Nebuchadnezzar was king of Assyria and I’ve heard it said that is historically incorrect. Can you talk about it? 34:07 – Does Tobit 12:9 contradict Paul? 37:23 – Could you elaborate how we could persuasively argue how we should trust the Church on the canon, especially for laymen who don’t want to get into the scholarship? 44:13 – In Mark 10:13-16 a new translation. Question on if they changed the reference to the child from ‘him’ to ‘it’ to be inclusive? 46:17 – I’ve heard that the doxology of the Our Father (for thine is the kingdom…etc.) is a marginal gloss, and not part of the original text of scripture. If that’s the case, why is it still in there? 48:13 – Why should we trust these men to put the bible together and not others? …

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0:43.2	Scott, he's the founder of Catholic in recovery, and we're going to talk about recovery, basically.
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0:55.6	perspective. You don't have to be Catholic. Scott's here to help anybody. We'll do that the
1:00.3	second hour. This hour, William Albrecht is here. We're going to talk about the canon of
1:05.0	Scripture. That is the list of the books that are in Scripture. Whatever your theology of the Scripture might be, every single Christian
1:14.5	knows that it's very, very important, and that we give a great deal of deference to the
1:22.7	scriptural books, but we don't agree on which books are in Scripture. So if you've got questions
1:26.3	about where the list or the canon, as we say, of Scripture came from,
1:31.0	how we got different lists of the scriptural books.
1:34.4	William Albrecht is here to take your questions.
1:36.6	He's the author of a couple of books.
1:37.7	You see him on Matt Frad and all the big media places, but he wrote,
1:42.3	he's one of the authors of Mary among the event, excuse me,
1:46.4	the evangelists, and another book, The Secret History of Transubstantiation, and the new book is called
1:52.8	The Complete History of the Biblical Canon in the Christian East and West. William Albrecht,
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