Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today I want to explore the Protestant Bible and whether it has the right number of books.

Because as you may know, Protestant Bibles are seven books shorter than Catholic Bibles are also shorter than Orthodox Bibles.

And there's a lot of debate about this and it matters a lot to know if we've got the right Bible.

And I want to look particularly at some of the objections handled by three gentlemen recently over on Dr. Gavin Ortland's channel.

It was Dr. Ortland, along with Javier Podomo and the guy behind Cleveland to antiquity, whose name I think is Matt, but I apologize if I'm getting it wrong.

His name turns out to be Ben.

So I want to look at first the sort of canonical problem, the canon conundrum, as they call it,

whether Protestants can solve it, whether Catholics are in the same boat, and then get into some of the

historical evidence. So broadly speaking, I'm going to look at this in two halves. First, looking at

authority and infallibility. Do Protestants know for sure which books are in the Bible?

Do they need infallibility to be able to do that?

And then, what do the Bible of the early Christians look like?

What can we say about the Bible in Jesus' own day?

So let's do part one first.

And so here they are kind of laying out what they call the canon canon.

The word canon has to do with which books are in scripture. This is a huge issue. This is

one that I think a lot of people have anxieties about and uncertainties about. So you may be

interested in this video. If you're just curious, how did, how was the Christian Bible formed?

What did that process look like? And especially if you've heard objections Protestant views of the canon, and you're wondering how to respond to that, do we have a fallible list of infallible books?

And what does that imply?

And then historical questions. Is there any historical basis for a Protestant view?

But I actually don't think that they maybe go far enough in explaining why this is a problem.

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