#136 The Canon Question Isn’t about Papal Infallibility. Here’s Why. - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Thomas Popery. I'm Joe Heschmeyer. And last week, Cameron Bertuzi of the Capturing |
| 0:04.8 | Christianity YouTube channel made a video called The One Question Every Protestant Must Answer. |
| 0:11.1 | That question, if you're wondering, is about how we know which books are in the Bible, |
| 0:15.4 | particularly which books are in the New Testament. |
| 0:17.4 | The question that every Christian has to answer is this. How do we know which |
| 0:22.2 | books belong in the New Testament? The New Testament is where we find everything from the life |
| 0:26.6 | of Jesus to the message of salvation, but Christians haven't always agreed on which books |
| 0:31.9 | belonged inside of it. There wasn't always like a really neat list of 27 New Testament books. |
| 0:45.8 | Some books we now consider essential were heavily disputed while other writings were cherished and even read in church, but ultimately were left out. So after all, while virtually all Christians agree on the 27 books that make up the New Testament, some of those books were controversial, books like James, Hebrews, 2nd Peter, |
| 0:55.4 | second and third John, book of Revelation, and made it in. These are someone called |
| 1:00.4 | the Antelegomina or spoken against books. And then other books, so think of things like |
| 1:05.7 | the Didicate, the Epistle of Barnapis, First Clement, Shepherd of Hermes, were beloved |
| 1:10.2 | early Christian writings |
| 1:11.3 | that some Christians thought belonged in the Bible and that ultimately didn't make it in. |
| 1:16.3 | So to be clear, we're not talking about like heretical books. We're not talking about the Gnostic |
| 1:19.1 | Gospels or anything like that. Those are the easy kind of black and white cases. We're talking |
| 1:23.4 | about those gray area cases where some Christians think it belongs and some Christians |
| 1:27.6 | think that it doesn't. In technical terms, Cameron is proposing what's called the canon |
| 1:32.5 | question. How do we know the contents or the canon of the Bible? And he proposes five ways |
| 1:39.0 | that we could try to solve this problem. I'm going to look at a few others in the course of this |
| 1:43.4 | video. But he says, number one, we could in the course of this video, but he says, |
| 1:44.9 | number one, we could trust the authority of the church. And by this point, we're largely talking |
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