Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Cathergantz's

Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn. And today I want to walk you through the historical

data behind one of the arguments that I shared and my debate with Gavin Orton in the last

week on the subject of Soloscriptura. If you haven't seen the debate yet, go and check

it out on Pines of the Quinness. I haven't seen the debate yet as of the recording of this

video because I'm recording it before the debate happened because I know I won't be able

to share all this data in the debate. And even if you didn't see the debate, this is

a really interesting argument and the data behind it is something I think a lot of Catholic

Apologists haven't looked at or shared. So I think it's a really helpful way to show

that Christ and the Apostles did not leave the New Testament scripture with an emphasis

on the New Testament as the sole infallible rule of faith. So the reason I'm sharing this

with you is that one of the arguments I gave in the debate was a paradigm shift argument,

saying that the church began at Pentecost, one rule of faith, the oral teaching of the

Apostles, then there was a paradigm shift. They, you start having written rules of faith

from the Apostles, starting probably with first Sessylonians. And we know that there's

been a shift here because Paul says in 2nd Sessylonians 215, stand firm and hold fast to

the traditions we give into you by word of mouth or by letter. But then Protestants will

say there was a third paradigm shift, that it was oral, then oral and written, and then

back to written alone, and all of divine revelation, Apostolic authority has been confined to

the written word in scripture in particular in the New Testament canon. But that's not

what we see from the historical data. The New Testament never says that that did happen

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