Hello, hello, and welcome to Pints with a Quinness. I am really excited about today's debate.

You are very welcome whether you are a Catholic or a Protestant or an Orthodox Christian or somebody

who's just curious about what a debate on the Old Testament canon looks like. You are very welcome

and we are so glad that you're here. Today Trent Horn and Steve Christie will be debating the question,

do Protestants have the correct Old Testament canon of Scripture? Steve, a Protestant will be

arguing in the affirmative and Trent a Catholic apologist from Catholic Answers in the negative.

Now, for those of you who aren't aware, while Protestants and Catholics agree on what constitutes

the New Testament canon, we disagree about what constitutes the Old Testament canon. Catholics

recognize seven additional books than Protestants do. These are sometimes referred to as the Dutero

canonical books of Scripture or the apocrypha, those seven books that Catholics accept, but which Protestants

do not accept are Tobit Judith, the book of Wisdom, Syrac, which is also called Ecclesiasticus,

Baruch, first and second Macabees. Now, in addition to those seven books, Catholics also have

additional portions of the books of Esther and Daniel. So, in a moment, I'm going to be inviting

up our debaters and I'm going to be asking them to introduce themselves really quickly and to tell

us why this is an important debate to have. But before we do that, I want to say thank you to our

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