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

All right everyone, welcome to another really good event that I've been looking forward to.

It's really nice to finally get together.

Actually sooner than we anticipated.

So we have one of those debates that's being going on for some time actually in the community.

And today we will be discussing the Protestant versus the Catholic canon.

We actually have an official motion here which is that the motion says the Old Testament

canon only contains the 39 books listed in the Protestant canon.

Sorry, the Old Testament canon only contains the 39 books listed in the Protestant canon.

And Anglican scholar and a good friend of mine actually, I'm proud to say Jonathan

and Sheffield will be arguing the affirmative and Transhorn will be affirming the negative

position.

And we won't vote for a winner, but you guys can decide who did better.

But it's not about winning and losing.

Jonathan, please go ahead and you can introduce yourself, but we have 15 minutes of an opening

statement starting from you.

And again, you hold the affirmative position.

What is and is not canon in the history of the Greek Latin and Aramaic apostolic churches

may well be a matter of debate among the Magisterian, but such debate is a little use to the millions

of Orthodox Jews in the synagogues of the world of whose authority and testimony of its canonical

tradition that was almost certainly never really any doubt.

Therefore, to open my dialogue with Mr. Horn, I would like to outline the intended plan

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